Flag stakes

What a flag must carry to count as one: the flagged row's share of every headline it feeds, at every level that contains it. A named doubt without its cost is a disclaimer, not a doubt, and a reader who cannot see what a suspect row is worth will either ignore it or discount everything.

Principle 7 · Clean by relabelling, never by revaluing

Where does Flag stakes come from?

Principle 7 of the Kymira doctrine, Clean by relabelling, never by revaluing. Flag stakes is the name the doctrine gives to what that principle requires in practice.

What failure is Flag stakes named after?

The trend that was one purchase order. A product looked unresponsive to promotion until the entire signal traced to a single large order; another claimed 6x volume that was 1.8x.

What does it look like on a real file?

The flagged row states its share of the month, the quarter, and the year total, printed beside each of those figures.

Not for

Not a substitute for a ruling. Stakes tell a reader what the doubt is worth; they do not settle what the value should be.

Nearest terms

What-if branchA labelled figure computed by code under each open reading of a flagged value, one branch per...Plausibility screenA pass over every value column, prices and rates and amounts and equally the quantity, seat,...Honesty stripOne line above the content that leads with what was proved: what ties, what was computed but...

Last updated 2026-09-02 · Dylan, founder · one of 40 terms in the Kymira glossary, each one named after something we watched go wrong in a real build or in our own audits.

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