Evidence is a durable, referenced record that something is true. Completion, approval and escalation all consume evidence, not assertions.
Architecture contract
COMPLETE(task) holds when acceptance criteria are satisfied, required verifications pass, no blocking failure is unresolved, required artifacts exist, policy obligations are met, and the completion evidence points to durable receipts.
Verification results are PASS, FAIL, INCONCLUSIVE or ERROR. INCONCLUSIVE is never PASS. A deterministic verifier outranks a semantic one, and a verifier’s score is evidence, not proof. Precedence runs deterministic, specialist semantic, stronger judge, human. A judge that fails, times out or lacks calibration fails closed to a human.