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Altitude traceability in automated verification ensures tests properly map to outcome-altitude acceptance criteria. It prevents silent failures where implementation-level tests pass but real-world outcomes diverge, maintaining validation across development stages.

To prevent silent failures, verify that tests write state the production code would produce and validate full end-to-end outcomes. This ensures implementation-altitude tests properly map to outcome-altitude acceptance criteria.

Classify risk bands by assessing whether existing tests sufficiently verify production behavior and reviewing test files against outcome-altitude acceptance criteria. This risk assessment guides automatic determination of strict per-cycle testing requirements.

No, this automated verification Skill requires no external dependencies to run. It operates independently to detect pre-arranged tests and ensure traceability across development altitudes for AI safety.

The best way to detect pre-arranged tests is assessing whether tests write state the production code would produce and verifying full end-to-end outcomes. This identifies tests failing to validate real-world scenarios.