Saw a great discussion earlier in this sub about the limits of self-reflection and whether a separate verifier agent is actually worth the compute overhead. It highlighted a huge flaw: Having an agent grade its own scratchpad almost guarantees rubber-stamping: it reflects on its work with the exact same blind spots that produced the error. Here's the architecture we built for the Apodex-1.0 Heavy-Duty Solver to get verification out of the reasoner's head entirely. The dominant approach rig...