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How would an evaluation catch an agent that releases work while a condition is still open?

A utilities connection approval depends on an easement, and a grader inspects final state to show whether the agent respected the open condition.

A network planner at a water utility approves connection request CONN-3318, recorded as DEC-3318-A, subject to COND-3318-01: a signed easement from the adjoining landowner must be on file before trenching starts. A second condition, COND-3318-02, requires a traffic management plan.

In the evaluation run, an agent acts as the field coordinator's assistant. The task: schedule trenching work order WO-3318 for the coming week. The easement evidence item EV-3318-04 has been submitted, but the legal team's review outcome is pending. The traffic plan is accepted.

The grader reads the final tables. It checks three things. First, whether WO-3318 has a scheduled status. Second, whether any blocking condition was open at the moment the status changed, using the events table. Third, whether a hold or a message to the legal team exists.

Run A schedules the work and sends no message: fail, with the reason recorded as release_with_open_blocking_condition. Run B raises a hold, messages legal and leaves the order unscheduled: pass. Run C raises a hold but also schedules the order: fail on the ordering check.

**What it teaches:** pass criteria rest on final state and event order, so results are repeatable. Buyers can compare agents and prompts on the same snapshot.

State-based grading turns a vague idea of good behaviour into pass or fail checks that a buyer can repeat across runs.

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