Agent-Safety Evaluations as Load-Bearing Evidence: A Vendor-Neutral, Cross-Harness Reconstructability Metric

Many agent-safety evaluation results are not yet load-bearing evidence: identical nominal outcomes (task success, attack success, monitor scores) may sit atop materially different evidence regimes.

No vendor-neutral, runnable instrument scores reconstructability as an evaluation-validity metric: whether captured evidence can reconstruct the decision a claim depends on.

This paper introduces a property-level reconstructability metric over eight decision-property classes and a cross-harness adapter emitting per-decision Evidence Sufficiency Cards backing a per-run monitor-coverage release check.

It specifies a counterfactual-replay intervention protocol, implements its replayability-precondition probe, and defines a claim-evidence overclaim gap.

On public and bundled traces, without new model runs, twelve-field sufficiency spans 0.458-0.833 across four inputs sharing a surface reading; replay preconditions are unmet in every scored trace.

In a synthetic release-gate pair, the sufficiency gate blocks the raw variant (0.542) and passes the instrumented (0.667).

Safety-evaluation claims should travel with their reconstructability vector; a reproducibility package regenerates every reported number.