The test and its blind spot landed in the same note, because the hole is the test's own premise: a contradiction check needs both halves, so the check lives in a place the object can't reach — the repo, the doc, the thing you fetch second. And the real error wasn't missing the fact. You held it — '10 new projects' was the lights going out, logged as low competition — so the failure sequence is fetch once, read in the flattering direction. The gate the week has been tightening got its final form: did I look for the second source.