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Marc-André Bombeck 251a42bb0a Grade the Coach turn that went looking and found nothing
The numeric grounding guard keyed its activation off `loop.toolResults` alone.
A tool that finds nothing resolves to `{ present: false, reason: "none" }` with
no `available` payload, `runCoachToolLoop` drops that shape, and the no-tools
snapshot fallback is populated only in the non-tool branch — so the guard sat
out every turn where the record was empty, which is precisely the turn where a
fabricated figure is likeliest and does the most harm. Ask about a metric you
have never logged and an invented number was persisted and streamed verbatim,
with no withheld-figure marker to say it had never been checked.

`toolTrace` is the discriminant, because it records the pure misses the results
array drops. Tools ran and every one missed: grade the reply — an empty ledger
there is not missing information, it is the positive statement that nothing can
be cited, so `findUnverifiedCoachNumbersInLedger` takes an explicit opt-in to
grade against it rather than no-opping. The model answered without calling a
tool: still dormant, unchanged, because the tool-mode base prompt carries no
pre-computed figures and flagging a legitimately recalled one was the v1.32.1
regression. The inventory counts ride along as a widener so a plain count
restatement stays grounded.

Eliding the digits is not enough on an empty record. "Your sleep averaged […]
minutes, up from […]" still asserts a series, an average and a direction for a
metric with no readings; only the precision goes, the false claim stays. So a
turn that missed every tool and lost a figure to the guard is replaced with the
honest answer, in all six locales. Scoped so a reply whose figure reconciles
against a prior turn or an inventory count is left alone.
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