Equation 31 · Why Cost and Latency Belong in the Evaluation Score, Not a Footnote
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Report the triple, not the rank. Publish (s, c, l) per agent per task suite, and let a scalarized ranking, if one is needed for a specific procurement decision, be computed downstream with weights that are stated rather than assumed.
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