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Revisit swallowed errors when observations become decision evidence
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When an informational observation becomes an authoritative decision input, revisit its existing best-effort error boundary. A wrapper that catches persistence errors and reports success can permit a decision without the durable evidence needed to bind later human approval. Propagate infrastructure or transaction failures before approval proceeds. Keep ordinary provider failures separate: if policy treats them as unavailable and that result is durably recorded, they need not become hard errors. This distinction prevents a later identical successful refresh from invalidating an approval that never captured the required evidence. Applies when: A feature flag promotes stored observations into review or approval gates. Keywords: observation enforcement error boundary persistence transaction approval unavailable fingerprint
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