Why most beginner agents die in production — and how to pick one that ships — step 7 of 7

Final drill. Synthesize the wedge checklist into one function: pick_capstone(candidates) that takes a list of project pitches and returns the NAME of the highest-scoring candidate.

Each candidate is a dict with:

• name: string
• volume_per_day: int
• output_schema_defined: bool
• has_rubric: bool
• users_count: int
• eval_method_defined: bool

Score each candidate using the same five rules from step 06 (each passing signal adds 20):

• volume_per_day >= 10: +20
• output_schema_defined: +20
• has_rubric: +20
• 1 <= users_count <= 10: +20
• eval_method_defined: +20

Return the name of the highest-scoring candidate. On a tie, return the FIRST one in the list (Python's max with key= preserves stable order).

Five candidates run. Expected output:

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