Swarm Orchestrator just lost its swarm. Dropped the multi-agent parallel coordination layer. Running one agent now and putting all the weight on a five-layer post-merge falsification battery instead. This is an experiment, not an endpoint. v8 will bring proper multi-agent swarming back. The reason for cutting it temporarily: I want to know whether the value I was getting from coordinated parallel agents was the coordination itself, or the verification pressure that coordination produced. Easier to measure with one variable. Intended side effect: cost reduction, since the previous architecture spun up multiple CLI agent instances per run. Real benchmarks pending. TL;DR : every patch survives a five-layer post-merge battery before the orchestrator declares success. Layers 1 and 2 are hard gates. Layers 3, 4, 5 are advisory and feed a composite score. Hard-gate failure throws before attestation, before final gates, before any external success signal.…