arXiv:2609.0445v1 proposes the “fractional mechanism shift” phenomenon, indicating that when large language models (LLMs) consistently provide incorrect answers, their scoring mechanism shifts, leading to the invalidation of confidence certificates. The study found that in multi-agent systems, this shift reduces coverage from 90% after calibration to 74% (standard alpha = 0.10). In multi-choice question-answering tasks with open weights, attackers can reduce the coverage of low-confidence items from 87% to 47%, while the monitored average value remains high. Moreover, the failure of the decision layer causes systems that should have upgraded to trust the attacker’s incorrect answers enough to take action. Existing standard-compliant repair methods cannot solve this problem because the distribution of errors remains unchanged, but the scoring behavior of the models changes.