Compare the boundary, not the brand.

Check whether the project separates discovery, schema validation, credential authority, approval, execution, and receipts.

Look for provenance, namespace, retention, no-secrets rules, search scope, compaction visibility, and migration tests.

Find parent IDs, child IDs, sent payloads, received results, lifecycle states, cancellation behavior, and merge rules.

Trace the decision from prompt to worker thread to executor, and reject designs that collapse scoped approval into global trust.

Inspect review surfaces, status indicators, session threads, branch summaries, pending work, and evidence rendering.

Find durable session identity, serialized state, replay rules, expiry, cancellation, reconciliation, and the point where an unknown effect becomes safe to retry.

Look for traces, diffs, tests, environment effects, failure classes, eval criteria, provenance, and a caveat that separates project-owned evidence from production outcomes.

Favor tests, rollback decisions, release contracts, self-hosting checklists, source-visible caveats, and boring operational edges.