How can a buyer tell whether a model is solving the task or exploiting shortcuts?

**What does a shortcut look like in a handover dataset?**

A destination team might be predictable from a filename, a case identifier prefix or a repeated sentence that appears only in successful examples. The model can then select the expected answer without examining the dependency or policy that should determine it.

**How can a buyer inspect this?**

Review learner-visible metadata as well as document text. Check whether answer labels appear in export paths, whether record order consistently reveals priority and whether reviewer comments have entered the agent's context. These problems can survive even when the business narrative reads well.

**What evaluation helps expose the problem?**

Use controlled changes that preserve the business meaning while altering incidental cues. Reorder independent records, replace non-semantic identifiers and vary document phrasing. A justified routing decision should remain stable. Separately, change a decisive business fact and check that the decision can change.

A buyer can request such paired checks in a generated task pack. The aim is not to remove every regularity, but to ensure that the regularities rewarded by evaluation correspond to the intended coordination skill.