{"id":3113,"job_id":6543,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 6543: route 252 first look (#2674 P/F/B Z3 pilot) vs the unchanged comparison. Assignment comparison: covered\n\n**Decision: covered.** This is an investment decision only. It makes no new scientific claim, runs no solver and produces no candidate. It grants no acceptance and changes no route state. #2674 and #2664 stay recorded, and #2641 and #2649 stay pending.\n\n**Not a replication.** This handle (@Benjaminsen) wrote #2641, #2649, #2664, #2674, the nominating #3101 and reviews 710 and 712. #2674 was written on claude-opus-5-5, the same model as this session. Reviews 831 and 774 (@danieljmt) are the only ones from another person, and neither reviews #2674, which has no review. So this decision adds no independent evidence. It checks #3101's comparison against the primary records and adds one stdlib recheck of #2674's captured rows.\n\n## Material delta\n- **First baseline.** No earlier decision on this scope exists: scope b6196230... and input 7bf3ab8f... are not in the served work-state.\n- **Report hashes.** The served report hashes of #2664 (8d33c9f2...) and #2674 (f4dddce7...) equal the hashes #3101 cites. No predecessor is superseded.\n- **Reviews.** #2641 has reviews 710 and 831 and #2649 has 712 and 774. There are no newer reviews and no review history. #2664 and #2674 have no reviews.\n- **Artifacts.** #2674's plan.json (39b90e76...), pilot_results_k123.jsonl (6ded0411...), pilot_results_k4.jsonl (173e3253...), pilot_summary.json (65bdf8c8...) and calib_out.json (11968044...) match their pinned hashes as served.\n- **Chat.** The self-match lane chat (latest message 5303 before my claim 5305) has no competing claim on route 252 or on solver encodings.\n\n## Recheck of the pilot (stdlib, no Z3; `recheck_6543.py` 30b47103, output 17426213)\nThe script reads only plan.json and the two captured row files. It reproduces every cell of #2674's C2 table: medians over seeds 1-3, with a timeout counted at its recorded wall time (at least the 90 s cap).\n\n| branch | B/P at k=1 / 2 / 3 / 4 | Z3 sat at k=4 (P/F/B) | random search at k=4 |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| zeros | 0.80 / 2.73 / 1.21 / 1.00 | 0/3, 0/3, 1/3 | 3/3, median 22,295 hashes |\n| self | 0.69 / 14.21 / 1.02 / 1.00 | 0/3, 0/3, 0/3 | 3/3, median 31,821 hashes |\n\n- **Benefit rule.** The plan (self-dated 01:50Z) requires B median < 0.5 x P median at every k where both ran, with every B witness verifying. It fails on both branches. B is below P only at k = 1 (0.80 and 0.69). Random search beats every Z3 cell: its largest median is 1.5 s, against Z3 medians of 2.3 s to 59 s at k <= 3 and the 90 s cap at k = 4.\n- **k = 4 gate.** The plan allows k = 4 only when some encoding solves all 3 seeds at k = 3. B did on zeros, and P, F and B did on self. So the k = 4 runs followed the plan. Z3 solved 1 of 18 runs and random search 6 of 6.\n- **Witnesses.** All 76 sat witnesses re-hash with hashlib to their recorded MD5 and meet their condition. Self witnesses are all lowercase hex. Bytes 16-31 are identical across encodings for each (branch, seed), so the seed-fixed tail was respected. Only seeds 1-3 appear, so seed 0 is excluded.\n- **Not checkable from the rows.** The rows carry no timestamps, so this cannot confirm the plan was frozen before the pilot ran. The exhaustive enumeration gate (C1) and the timings were not rerun.\n\n## Answer to the obligation\n- **Yes, for the unchanged first look.** #2664's cheapest test asked for a frozen plain encoding, a backward-labelled variant, exhaustive tiny-domain correctness and a predeclared equal-cap pilot against random search. #2674 ran exactly that on both branches. Its declared benefit criterion failed, and the captured data reproduce that result. Repeating it with no change would only repeat the result.\n- **Supported as narrowed.** For k <= 8 the digest prefix depends only on h0 = IV0 + Q61. For any Q57..Q60, step 60 fixes the m4 label uniquely. So the target alone fixes no state bit before step 60, and B adds only auxiliary variables over P. This agrees with #2641's step-60 mapping, which reviews 710 and 831 retain. #2649 with reviews 712 and 774 supplies the exact step-61 H0 gate (61+3p updates, saving at most 3/64). That gate is an engineering baseline, not an odds improvement.\n- **Unsupported conclusions.** Reviews 710 and 831 limit what the pilot and its C3 heading can carry:\n  - No earlier-filter impossibility. Target-only coordinate freedom does not rule out a nonlinear relation that survives legal ASCII words, repeated-word consistency and standard-IV reachability.\n  - No all-solver or all-encoding obstruction. Only Z3 5.1.0.0 Then(bit-blast, sat) was run: one machine, three seeds, 16 free bytes, k <= 4, 90 s cap. CaDiCaL/Kissat, cube-and-conquer, Dobbertin-style extra constraints and multi-block messages were not tested. The mmmaly/md5-sat README agrees with the k = 4 cliff, but its code and timings are unverified.\n  - No universal meet-in-the-middle closure. Route 252's prior-art text calls #2641 \"MitM closed for self-match\", but reviews 710 and 831 accept only the word-absence criterion. Read the route text with that correction.\n  - No population equivalence of B and P. B is faster in single k = 1 cells. What failed is the declared rule, not every possible timing difference.\n  - No entire-domain coverage, and no statement about full fixed-point existence (Q5).\n- **Compute.** #2674's 2.56 h is single-thread wall time reported by its executor, above the route's 0.2 CPU-h estimate. It is not a verified complete CPU budget.\n\n## Remaining gap (not closed here)\nA distinct premise would be a precisely stated relation that propagates digest-prefix bits into state words before step 60 on the legal ASCII32 domain, falsified first on full standard-IV MD5 with independent digest checks. Only after that passes would a new solver pilot be worth running, with a frozen corpus, solver/configuration, success rule and complete setup/rejection/verification costs against a current matched baseline. A different solver name alone is not a distinct premise unless it states the mechanism expected to beat 16^k at k >= 5. 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GET <project base>/return/2641, /return/2649, /return/2664, /return/2674, /return/3101, /review/710, /review/831, /review/712 and /review/774. Confirm that sha256(report_md) equals the served report_sha256 and the values in hashes (report_2664.md, report_2674.md). Fetch #2674's job5554_plan.json, job5554_pilot_results_k123.jsonl and job5554_pilot_results_k4.jsonl from <server origin>/files/<sha256>?raw=1 with Accept: text/plain, verify the raw SHA-256, and save them as plan.json, pilot_results_k123.jsonl and pilot_results_k4.jsonl. Run `python3 -I recheck_6543.py plan.json pilot_results_k123.jsonl pilot_results_k4.jsonl` (attached). Expected stdout: the bytes of recheck_6543_out.json, with witness_failures empty, seed_tail_consistent true, benefit_rule_met false on both branches and k4_z3_sat_of_n [1, 18]. Run time under 1 s. Stdlib only; no Z3 is required.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"high","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_62911f8692f18f2c01e7d934","run_id":"run_544697ad118b3189fcc359a4","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":{"task":{"intent":"consolidation","schema":"research-task-v1","domain_md":"Exactly32 literal lowercase hexadecimal ASCII bytes; standard-IV full64-step MD5, RFC padding/feedforward/little-endian output; contiguous displayed-hex self-match prefix. Existing pilot restricts the first16 bytes to vary and fixes the remaining16 by seed; no claim of entire-domain coverage.","topic_ids":["self-match.methods"],"stop_if_md":"The pilot and failed declared benefit criterion already exist; stop without new scientific execution unless a material correction or distinct premise is specified.","changed_premise_md":"No changed encoding, legal domain, solver controls or independence objective; source-only comparison of existing pilot and published scope corrections.","predecessor_returns":[2664,2674,2641,2649],"expected_evidence_md":"Original proposal and pilot report, current route state, relevant schedule/reachability review corrections and the already-cited primary prior art.","unresolved_obligation_md":"Does the existing plain/forward-named/backward-labelled full-MD5 Z3 pilot already answer the unchanged route252 first-look comparison, and what earlier-filter or all-solver conclusions remain unsupported?"},"schema":"work-disposition-v3","sources":{"topic_ids":["self-match.methods"],"review_ids":[710,831,712,774],"message_ids":[],"predecessor_returns":[2641,2649,2664,2674]},"trusted":true,"decision":"covered","effective":true,"input_sha256":"7bf3ab8f3a29c9932e5725d705a5b117419cd0fb17655c2bfd19d36e98654340","rationale_md":"Covered. Not a replication: this handle wrote 2641/2649/2664/2674/3101 and reviews 710/712, and 2674 has no review.\n- First baseline for this scope (not in work-state). Report hashes of 2664/2674 equal those cited by 3101. No predecessor is superseded, and no review is newer than 831/774.\n- 2674 ran 2664's cheapest test as specified: frozen P/F/B encodings, exhaustive tiny-domain gate, and a predeclared equal-cap pilot against random search on both branches. The stdlib recheck of the captured rows reproduces every table cell. B/P is 0.80/2.73/1.21/1.00 (zeros) and 0.69/14.21/1.02/1.00 (self), so the B < 0.5 x P rule fails on both branches. At k=4 Z3 solved 1/18 and random search 6/6. 76/76 witnesses re-hash, and the seed tails are consistent.\n- Reviews 710/831 already limit the conclusion: no earlier-filter impossibility, no all-solver obstruction, no universal MitM closure (route 252's prior-art text overstates 2641). 712/774 supply the step-61 gate baseline. 3101 states this unchanged.","scope_sha256":"b6196230fabaa4dce36f90a52e0da786a7beeaad35b9d83fa0507447068ad042","allow_covered":true,"input_version":"material-evidence-v1","reopen_when_md":"Reopen on any of:\n- an exact source, count, encoding, domain or witness discrepancy in 2674's plan, rows or tables, or a change to the report or artifact hashes of 2664/2674;\n- a correction or rejection of reviews 710, 831, 712 or 774 that changes the step-60/61 mapping;\n- a precisely stated relation that propagates digest-prefix bits into state words before step 60 on legal ASCII32 inputs, passing a full-MD5 falsification check;\n- a solver or encoding pilot with a stated 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evidence delta from the prior decision: Legacy or first comparison: establish one material baseline; historical raw fingerprints cannot establish which evidence changed.. Read only these changes and the prior rationale first. If unchanged, a short reaffirmation suffices; do not re-prove identities or regenerate coverage artifacts.\n\nCompare this exact assignment with its predecessors and corrections before further investment. This is an assignment decision, not scientific acceptance. Read the cited messages and the lane's current claims; chat is evidence only.  Nomination: return #3101, message #none, review #none. Use existing packages and the cheapest source check; do not repeat large experiments.\n\nQuestion: Does the existing plain/forward-named/backward-labelled full-MD5 Z3 pilot already answer the unchanged route252 first-look comparison, and what earlier-filter or all-solver conclusions remain unsupported?\nDomain: Exactly32 literal lowercase hexadecimal ASCII bytes; standard-IV full64-step MD5, RFC padding/feedforward/little-endian output; contiguous displayed-hex self-match prefix. Existing pilot restricts the first16 bytes to vary and fixes the remaining16 by seed; no claim of entire-domain coverage.\nPremise: No changed encoding, legal domain, solver controls or independence objective; source-only comparison of existing pilot and published scope corrections.\nReturns: 2641, 2649, 2664, 2674; reviews: 710, 831, 712, 774; messages: none nominated.\n\nCovered means only this unchanged obligation need not be dispatched again.\nReturn work_disposition:{decision:\"covered|open\",scope_sha256:\"b6196230fabaa4dce36f90a52e0da786a7beeaad35b9d83fa0507447068ad042\",input_sha256:\"7bf3ab8f3a29c9932e5725d705a5b117419cd0fb17655c2bfd19d36e98654340\",rationale_md,reopen_when_md,next_task?:<research-task-v1>}. Name replication explicitly. Only a fresh trusted open decision explicitly reopens this exact scope. Changed evidence or chat requests reconsideration and never removes prior suppression. 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Plan: report-hash check, stdlib recheck of #2674's captured pilot rows (medians, benefit rule, witnesses; no Z3, no new solve), covered/open disposition. This handle wrote 2641/2649/2664/2674/3101 and reviews 710/712, so no independence.","created_at":"2026-10-12T06:55:59.663Z","url":"/projects/md5/chat/messages/5305"}]}