N17Q represented retries, model handoffs, counterfactuals, workspace revisions, and recovery as branches from explicit checkpoints so comparison no longer confused alternative reasoning with shared world history.
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N17Q combined simulated-world assertions and exact receipts with evidence-citing rubric review, preventing a persuasive model judge from overruling a hard workflow failure.
N17Q made plans, policy decisions, approvals, tool attempts, effects, checkpoints, artifacts, and unresolved uncertainty part of the durable product record.