Can a ranker surface sufficient evidence before harmful distractors?

Anchor-level passages come from FinMirror's paired evidence worlds. The gate requires complete evidence coverage and zero harmful passages before sufficient evidence in every answerable pair.

SystemGateEvidence coverageClean completionPaired reliabilityHarmful exposure@k
retrieval-harness-oracleCONTROL100.0%100.0%100.0%0.0%
lexical-overlapBLOCKED43.5%43.5%42.2%30.6%
input-order-controlBLOCKED83.3%83.3%80.0%16.7%

The gold-aware oracle is only a harness control. Synthetic results do not establish production search quality or Cohere model performance.