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E.23:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

Anti-patternRepair
Checklist closed, quality improved. Discharge count replaces re-evaluation.Re-evaluate the changed object and apply CC-E23-4 when dated Work is asserted.
Loop result without evaluation form. The loop says the object improved but retains no evidence in the declared evaluation form.Restore that result form and evidence basis, then apply CC-E23-4 to any dated Work claim.
Agentic retry as method law. Repetition continues without a scale-qualified predicted evaluation-result change.Add ExpectedEvaluationResultChange@Context, cost and risk, trade-offs, and a stop or switch condition.
Operation-family creep. Verification, memory, supervision, or search is added everywhere.Keep only operations that can change the evaluation result enough to justify cost.
Goodharted pass. Visible values rise while protected qualities worsen, or a non-5 value is treated as a defect to be fixed by more apparatus.Use trade-off inspection; apply E.13 when the visible value is replacing the intended value; reject, delete, split, relocate, or hold dominated changes; continue searching for substantive content improvement when the improvement aim is still open; record stay at current value only when the LoopEvaluationEvidenceBasis@Context shows that no non-dominated content improvement remains.
Lexical substitution closure. A trigger word disappears, but the replacement narrows, widens, or changes the object kind; for example a graph-shaped method or workflow cue becomes a work sequence without a selected ontology decision.Reopen the row, recover the pre-repair and post-repair kind through E.10, F.19, F.18, or the subject pattern, and leave the repair blocking if the kind cannot be preserved or explicitly changed by accepted decision.
Maturity-ceiling stop. All-5 is treated as an automatic stop or permanent end of development.Apply the gain, protected-quality and cost test in §4.3; state the reason for stopping and what could reopen it.
SoTA citation as self-assignment. Sources are cited as proof of frontier quality.State source contributions and re-evaluate the composed result.
Loop engineering as ontology. A fashionable source phrase is treated as a new Core kind or as proof that all repeated activity is one improvement loop.Use the phrase only as an entry cue; recover object version and evaluation, or use its subject pattern for the live claim. Common exits are work, gates, evolutionary retention and publication, source use, refresh, transformation-flow, and DPF subject patterns.
Proposal as performance. A selected proposal or continue decision is treated as if the repair happened.Apply CC-E23-13: keep selection epistemic until separate Work and an obtaining result or change relation exist.
Cycle as Work or context. A record, dashboard, retry label, or visible arrow cycle is treated as enduring Work or ambient context.Apply CC-E23-14: recover the conditional structure only when needed, and identify each asserted performed pass separately.
Finding as actual Problem. A low coordinate, floor miss, or loop-entry need is treated as a Problem occurrence.Keep the finding epistemic; cite C.22.PFR only when one actual condition and one criterion-applicability occurrence make the temporally identified ProblematicForRelation obtain.