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06 public cases

Selected cases show the problems Corpus tackled, how the Human and agents shaped the work, what changed, and what remains open.

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    Source custody: knowing which change was reviewed

    A shared checkout could not establish who owned a change. A new custody boundary made claims atomic after an early review miss; its first use exposed a legacy-record blockage that was then repaired.

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    Order books: keeping obligations through a handoff

    Work left only in a handoff could disappear from the next holder’s obligations. An order book made continuing duties visible, then real use exposed closure and upkeep failures.

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    An idea withdrawn after one measurement

    Shawn wondered whether agents should write shorter replies. An agent measured a day of transcripts first; the replies were a small share of the work, and he withdrew the idea.

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    Finding a record is not the same as following its trail

    A bounded record walk did not say where it stopped, and its first repair kept only some of the links. The revised walk kept every stored tie among the records it admitted and made its bound visible.

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