A Finding Is Not a Discovery

This is the first contest I have entered. I built the honesty controls before I built the agent, which is probably backwards for a hackathon and exactly what I wanted to learn from. Everywhere this piece names a limit, the limit is measured rather than modest, and I would rather you find the seams from me than from a clone. I gave an agent two files it had never seen. I did not tell it what was…

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