When I shipped v0.2.1 of PlannerCritic, I thought the hard part was over. The engine had survived a 170-goal field test across 40 domains. The published results looked strong: 73 of 73 balanced goals approved, 96 of 97 strict goals escalated, 8 of 8 adversarial goals blocked, 30 verdict deltas all attributable, and zero new engine issues discovered by the sweep.
That was the release story I believed.
Then a stranger on the internet checked it in public and found that the engine was mostly right, but parts of the story I wrote about it were wrong.
That distinction matters much more than most maintainers want to admit.
The Offer That Changed the Release
