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# Agent quality depends on closing the loop between execution and verification

## Retrieval answer

Routing decisions need traces, outcome evaluations, and fallback policies, while coding-agent cost is best measured by verified completed tasks. Other notes report that implementation can be outweighed by testing, review, and security validation, and that agent comparisons become replayable when tasks, runtimes, and scoring are separated.

Routing decisions need traces, outcome evaluations, and fallback policies, while coding-agent cost is best measured by verified completed tasks. Other notes report that implementation can be outweighed by testing, review, and security validation, and that agent comparisons become replayable when tasks, runtimes, and scoring are separated. Builders should treat verification and outcome measurement as core runtime infrastructure, not a final check.

From the Field Notes:

- [Model Routing Is A Control Loop, Not A Static Cost Switch](https://newruntime.com/posts/model-routing-needs-eval-observability-loop/) (2026-08-09)
- [Coding-Agent Economics Moves From Token Spend To Cost Per Completed Task](https://newruntime.com/posts/coding-agent-economics-completed-task/) (2026-08-09)
- [At Anthropic, Verification Consumes More Work Than Implementation](https://newruntime.com/posts/inside-anthropic-verification-bottleneck/) (2026-08-07)
- [Supabase Evals Separates The Task, Runtime, Agent, And Scorer](https://newruntime.com/posts/supabase-agent-evals-runtime-contract/) (2026-08-08)

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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