Severity 5Legal, financial, rights/provenance, privacy, security, payment, irreversible user harm, or public trust collapse blocks release when uncovered.
Severity 4Core wrong outcome, broken agent action, major cost spike, or misleading public claim needs an eval case, fallback behavior, and owner before release.
RegressionEvery real observed failure needs a fixture, scripted check, or named manual readback path.
Claim truthPublic copy cannot claim eval coverage that does not exist in tests, logs, fixtures, or recorded readbacks.