Watermelon status
Green on the outside, red inside: reports stay green until the problem is too big to hide.
- Signal
- Status always green; surprises at UAT.
- Source
- via Goodhart's law — Goodhart (1975); wording by Strathern (1997)
- Level
- B · established practice
For agents · MCP
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