ControlArchitectural inferencev1.10.0

Hidden-Test Leakage

Evidence levelArchitectural inference

Leakage turns a gate into a training target and makes high scores less informative.

Control requirement

The control must live outside the candidate’s ordinary write boundary. It should be versioned, auditable, recoverable, and testable under failure. A policy expressed only as a prompt is not a hard control.

Failure mode

The governance layer becomes part of the attack surface when it controls identity, success definitions, release permissions, hidden evidence, memory retention, aliases, and rollback.

Practical review

Ask who owns the control, who can change it, which evidence would reveal failure, how it is rolled back, and what organizational pressure could bypass it.