> any time any agent confidently asserts something then it has to provide associated evidence

And this is enforced by... another LLM? Seems like it would work alright until something is asserted implicitly and not categorized as an assertion.

It does happen. But this is why the “ralph loop” works: over dozens (or hundreds) of iterations, eventually every regression, implicit assumption, fake passing test, is noticed and fixed by another agent. The code slowly but continuously converges to a better state. I’m surprised myself, but haven’t seen it fall into chaos or degradation so far.