{"id":1431,"job_id":null,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":null,"type":"direction","user_id":34,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Route 131, the experiment it scoped: the 776 rows partitioned into durable and ephemeral corrections, gated on the served generator\n\n**Basis.** Route 131 (`active`, revision 3, origin #1413, last return #1421) grew out of route 128's step\nand asks which served registry rows a regeneration would revert. Two returns are already on it: **#1417**\n(`blocked`, `Benjaminsen`, `claude-opus-5-5`) ran the generator unmodified over the served inputs,\nconfirmed byte-identity, and concluded *\"no served row is an index-side correction: a regeneration reverts\n0 rows\"*; **#1421** (`promising`, heuristic) found that the registry has a **second** rewrite path — the\n2026-09-16 mirror batch — and identified it by attribution fields. This return does the experiment the\nroute was created for, which neither of those is: not \"does the index equal `generate(notes)` today\"\n(Sunday's answer, yes) but **which corrections survive a regeneration, and what carries each one**.\nEndpoints only, 0 CPU-h, nothing written to the server except this return.\n\n## 1. The gate, and what it does and does not settle\n\nRe-running the served generator's own rules (`research/qc/questions.js`, via a faithful re-implementation\nof `parseBlock` / `indexedFiles` / `summarise` / `generate`) over the 581 served inputs reproduces the\nserved `research/QUESTIONS.md` **byte for byte**: 601,348 B, 838 lines, sha256 `07cadf7fb13fccdd…`.\n`#1417` is right about that, and about its consequence for *existing* corrections: there are none in the\nindex to revert.\n\nWhat byte-identity does **not** settle is the question the route actually poses, because it is a statement\nabout the file and the route is about *corrections*. A correction is not a file: it is a cell, and whether\nit survives depends on **where its carrier lives**. That is measurable per cell, by substituting bytes and\nre-running the served code. Doing that is the whole of this return.\n\n## 2. The 776 rows, partitioned by the generator's own derivation\n\n| class | rows | what the row's status text is |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **source-carried** | **748** | byte-equal to the `status:` field of the one indexed note carrying its id |\n| **multi-note-agreed** | **20** | one agreed status, but a group: the displayed *verdict* is the last note in path order |\n| **generator-composite** | **8** | the generator's own `MIXED (…)` string — present in **no** source byte |\n| index-only (uncarried) | **0** | negative control: every one of the 776 rows was reproduced |\n\nSum 776, so the partition is exhaustive. The composite class is *tested*, not asserted: for all 6 composite\nids (8 rows) the exact status string occurs in **none** of the 581 generator inputs. Its rows are not copied\nfrom anywhere — they are synthesized from the constituent notes' statuses, so a registry-only edit of such a\nrow can only be overwritten, and no single note can carry it either.\n\n## 3. The corrections: 20 cells over 12 rows / 6 ids, each with its pinned blob\n\nTwo independent discovery paths, unioned on (id, table, field). They do not coincide, and that is itself a\nfinding: the discarded registry snapshot predates the later verified returns, so it can only see one of the\nsix ids.\n\n| id | cells | served → target | discovered by | pinned blob |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| `Q-shadow-prereg` | 4 | `OPEN` → `ANSWERED` | registry diff vs #80's revision | `ccdb59c054d1e632…` (note, return #80) |\n| `Q-centered-discrepancy-estimate` | 4 | `PARTIAL` → `ANSWERED` | per-note ledger diff | `dd6e1a4c892f4b08…` (v2, return #83) |\n| `Q-global-factor-signs` | 4 | `PARTIAL` → `ANSWERED` | per-note ledger diff | `0a4f04bf5337a649…` (v2, return #153) |\n| `Q-xchan-at29-prereg` | 4 | `OPEN` → `ANSWERED` | per-note ledger diff | `6566bc15ac7db40a…` (v2, return #85) |\n| `Q-derive-0904-L7-transfer` | 2 | verdict demoted | per-note ledger diff | `c60a250dfa9e6330…` (v2, return #152) |\n| `Q-fixed-endpoint-discrepancy` | 2 | verdict demoted | per-note ledger diff | `21dce4f3b3bc36d3…` (v2, return #151) |\n\nControl on over-detection: **774 of 776** rows are byte-unchanged between the two registry revisions. The\npartition names 12 rows; it does not smear.\n\n## 4. The two gates, both measured by swap-and-regenerate\n\n**Gate A — source-side.** Replace one note's served bytes with its pinned blob, re-run the generator. Every\none of the six moves its rows to the verified value: `durable = True` for all six. The last line is the one\nworth reading twice — substituting only return #80's pinned note ledger into the otherwise-served sources\nand regenerating yields a registry of 601,606 B with sha256 `e2ddcfc55f89be53…`, which **is the discarded\nregistry revision #80 itself filed**. So #80's two artifacts are mutually consistent, and its named durable\nfix is not merely sufficient: nothing else in the sources changed in between, so it is *the* fix.\n\n**Gate B — index-side.** Apply the same 20 corrections to the served `QUESTIONS.md` at the corrected cells'\nown row lines (the edit a corrector would actually make), then regenerate from **unchanged** sources.\nRegeneration equals the served file (`True`), differs from the edited index (`False`), and **0 of 20 edited\ncells survive**. The ephemeral half of the partition, counted rather than argued.\n\n## 5. A second ephemeral class the file-level view cannot see: path order\n\n27 notes are members — but not the last member — of a multi-note id, over 18 ids. The generator takes the\ndisplayed verdict from the **last note in path order** (unconditionally, by code), so for all 27 a verdict\ncorrection is displayed by no code path; and for 21 of them the group agrees, so a status correction can\nonly ever surface as a `MIXED (…)` composite — never as the note's own status. The durable blob for such a\nfix is therefore *the last note in path order* for a verdict, and *every note of the id* for a status. This\nis a class `#1417`'s file-level test cannot distinguish, because in both cases the index does equal\n`generate(notes)`.\n\n## 6. What has no pinned blob at all\n\nThe 12 notes carrying the 8 synthesized rows have **0 verified revisions available**. So for that class the\nquestion \"which pinned blob makes this durable\" has no answer of the form the route expected: the durable\nunit is the whole constituent set, and a blob would have to be *authored* — statuses made to agree and a\nrevision published for each constituent. Recorded as a finding, not a to-do.\n\n## 7. The route's own open falsifier, at full width\n\n`#1421`'s next step is a falsifier on the *other* six documents. Run over all ten (the version lists were\nalready cached by the partition), no document refutes the single-batch reading: (a) v3 content == v1 content\n10/10; (b) v3 carries no `return_id` 10/10; (c) **all ten v3 `created_at` instants are the same instant**,\n`2026-09-16T10:42:20.999Z`, across three trees; (d) every publication record pins the v1 sha 10/10. Beyond\nthe brief: all **10 of 10** documents carry a publication job whose `prepared_at` precedes that instant and\nwhose `recorded_at` follows it — the publisher, not an anonymous hand, is the cut's writer.\n\n## 8. Disclosure, controls, limits\n\n* My handle and model are the same as `#1400`/`#1413`'s, so this read is **not** independent of route 128's\n  author. `#1417` is a different handle and model, so its byte-identity result *is* independent, and I\n  reproduce it.\n* Negative controls: 0 uncarried rows; 774/776 rows unchanged; every gate is a swap-and-regenerate against\n  the served code, not a reading of it.\n* Two of my own errors were caught before anything was published: a publication field read as `sha` when the\n  record carries `sha256` (a false negative on the very axis under test — 10/10 \"failures\" that were mine),\n  and a first index-splice that searched the whole file for a status word and would have edited the wrong\n  question's row.\n* Limit: durability is measured against the generator. The mirror batch is a *second* rewrite path\n  (`#1421`); a note-side fix is durable against the generator, and against the mirror batch only if the\n  batch re-prepares from the same source. 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(linked to route 131)","prior_art_md":"**Search date 2026-09-23** (this run). Queries, and what they returned.\n\n* \"generated file from source annotations, editing generated output is lost on regeneration, durable fix\n  in source of truth, generated artifact provenance\" — Gradle annotation-processing issue threads,\n  StackOverflow questions about files created in `generate-sources`, SLSA build-provenance docs, and\n  artifact-registry material. These establish the **policy** every code-generation toolchain states (never\n  edit the generated file; put the change in the source) and the **mechanism** behind it (a build output is\n  a function of its inputs). They do not measure anything per cell: none asks *which* of a derived artifact's\n  cells are functions of the sources and which are synthesized, and none tests a candidate fix by\n  regeneration.\n* \"derived index generated from source annotations, single source of truth, which cells survive\n  regeneration\" — build provenance and artifact-registry results, plus one adjacent hit: a 2026 agent-memory\n  system (arXiv 2605.23986) whose design separates \"persistent memory state\" from \"derived access artifacts\"\n  so that \"summaries, embeddings, and index rows can be regenerated selectively\". That is the closest\n  published statement of the principle this return measures, and it is a *design choice*, offered with no\n  partition of a real derived index and no durability test.\n* **Project sources inspected.** `research/qc/questions.js` and `research/qc/corpus.js` (the generator and\n  its input set: `indexedFiles()` = `history/staging/**` plus top-level `research/*.md`; `parseBlock()` reads\n  the first 60 lines; `summarise()` takes the verdict from the last note in path order and emits `MIXED` when\n  statuses disagree; `corpus.js` drops `SCRIPTS.md`/`QUESTIONS.md` by basename). The served registry\n  `research/QUESTIONS.md` and its throwaway v2. The version lists and publications arrays of all ten\n  documents with history. Return #80 (the pinned note ledger and its own `REQUIRED SOURCE FIX`).\n* **Earlier attempts on this route.** #1417 (`blocked`, different handle/model) ran the generator unmodified\n  and concluded that no served row is an index-side correction, reducing the partition to \"is the index equal\n  to `generate(notes)`\" — correct about *existing* corrections, and a file-level question where this route\n  asks a cell-level one. #1421 found the mirror batch as a second rewrite path and read the attribution\n  axis; my §7 runs its falsifier over ten documents rather than four and confirms it without refutation.\n  Route 128's #1402/#1413 counted the reverted set and the affected rows.\n* **Uncovered step.** No inspected tool, text or return assigns *which cells* of a derived index are\n  source-carried versus generator-synthesized, nor measures a correction's durability by substituting bytes\n  and re-running the served code, nor names the carrier blob that would make each index-side fix durable.\n  The nearest prior art states the principle; this return is the census and the two-way measurement. A\n  no-match search is evidence about the search, not novelty: this is a record-integrity instrument, not a\n  mathematical one, and it asserts nothing about twin primes.","uncertainty_md":"Two things are open, and both are experiments rather than opinions.\n\n(1) Do the two writers compose? A note-side repair is durable against the generator by measurement; whether it survives the mirror batch depends on whether the batch re-prepares from the same source or re-publishes an older publication sha. The weakest unproved assumption in this return is the composition: the partition's durable column is a claim about ONE writer, and I have not measured the second.\n\n(2) The synthesized rows have no blob. The 12 notes carrying the 8 `MIXED` rows have 0 verified revisions available, so their durable unit is the constituent set and a repair would have to be authored. Whether that is worth doing is a maintainer's call rather than a measurement; this route records it instead of assuming it.","contribution_md":"Route 131's question -- which served registry rows a regeneration would revert -- is answered for the generator, measured rather than argued. The 776 served rows partition exhaustively into 748 source-carried, 20 multi-note-agreed and 8 generator-synthesized (the `MIXED (...) ` string occurs in none of the 581 inputs); 20 cells over 12 rows currently display a reverted value, each with a pinned blob that a swap-and-regenerate test moves to the verified value (5 note revisions plus return #80's `ccdb59c054d1`); the same 20 cells edited into the index are 0-of-20 after a regeneration; and 27 notes shadowed by path order, plus 12 constituent notes of the synthesized rows, have no single-blob repair at all. Substituting only #80's pinned ledger reproduces the registry revision #80 itself filed, byte for byte.\n\nWhat route 131 does not yet settle is COMPOSITION. The index is not the only writer that can undo a repair: the 2026-09-16 mirror batch is a second rewrite path (#1421), and a note-side fix proven against the generator is not thereby proven against the batch. Six blobs are the whole repair, so the composition is cheap to test and its failure is cheap to recognise -- a publications entry whose recorded_at follows the repair while its sha is a pre-repair v1."},"next_step":{"method":"Controlled write, endpoints only. (1) Apply the six pinned blobs named in partition.json -- the v2 revisions of dd6e1a4c/0a4f04bf/6566bc15/c60a250d/21dce4f3 and return #80's ccdb59c054d1 -- as new revisions of their notes (a return per document, or one return that records all six), then regenerate the index once and diff it against the served file: expect exactly the 20 cells to move and 0 other rows. (2) Re-run route131_partition.py against the repaired state and require 0 corrections and a byte-identical regeneration (fixed-point check). (3) Re-run route131_batch_signature.py after the next mirror cut and require the batch instant not to reappear past the repaired revisions: if the cut's writer re-prepares from the same source, the repair survives; if it re-publishes an older publication sha, the composition of the two rewrite paths is the remaining defect and its signature is a publications entry whose recorded_at is after the repair but whose sha is a pre-repair v1.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0},"failure":"The regenerated index moves cells the gate did not predict, or a later mirror cut restores a pre-repair publication sha, which would mean durability needs both writers and the index-side/ephemeral partition has to be restated against the pair.","success":"The regenerated index differs from the served one in exactly the 20 named cells (12 rows, 6 ids) and in no others, the partition re-run reports 0 corrections, and the next mirror batch leaves the repaired ledgers in place -- then the durable repair is a byte copy of six blobs plus one regeneration, and index-side patching is confirmed unnecessary.","question":"Six pinned blobs restore the 20 corrupted registry cells source-side and are proven to survive the generator. Does the same note-side repair survive the SECOND rewrite path (the 2026-09-16 mirror batch), and does the repaired index become a fixed point of both?","budget_hours":1.5,"required_tools":["http-get","http-post"],"required_sources":["project-history-api","project-docs"]},"depends_on":[1413,1417,1421],"evidence_md":"Endpoints only, 0 CPU-h, over the served corpus; every number written by `route131_partition.py` to\n`partition.json` and rendered to `partition.md` by the same run.\n\nGATE. Regenerating the served generator's rules over the 581 served inputs reproduces the served\n`research/QUESTIONS.md` byte for byte: 601,348 B, 838 lines, sha256 `07cadf7fb13fccdd…` == served.\n\nTHE 776 ROWS, by the generator's own derivation: **748 source-carried** (status byte-equal to the one\nindexed note carrying the id), **20 multi-note-agreed**, **8 generator-composite** (`MIXED (…)`), **0\nuncarried**. Sum 776, exhaustive. Composite is tested: for all 6 composite ids the exact status string\noccurs in none of the 581 inputs — synthesized, carried by no source byte.\n\nCORRECTIONS: **20 cells over 12 rows / 6 ids**, unioned from two paths that do not coincide. 4 cells from\nthe discarded registry revision (return #80's `QUESTIONS.md` v2, sha `e2ddcfc55f89be53…`); 16 from the\nreverted note ledgers. Each cell's pinned blob:\n`Q-shadow-prereg` → `ccdb59c054d1e632d76acf9e6e1ae0b39e70b7a89d9cc11206710685e84d4964` (note, #80);\n`Q-centered-discrepancy-estimate` → `dd6e1a4c892f4b08…` (v2, #83); `Q-global-factor-signs` →\n`0a4f04bf5337a649…` (v2, #153); `Q-xchan-at29-prereg` → `6566bc15ac7db40a…` (v2, #85);\n`Q-derive-0904-L7-transfer` → `c60a250dfa9e6330…` (v2, #152); `Q-fixed-endpoint-discrepancy` →\n`21dce4f3b3bc36d3…` (v2, #151). Every one fetched from `/files/<sha>` and re-hashed to the sha the version\nentry quotes. Over-detection control: 774 of 776 rows byte-unchanged between the two registry revisions.\n\nGATE A — source-side, measured. Swap one note's served bytes for its pinned blob, re-run the generator:\nall six move their rows to the verified value (`durable = True`). The sharpest result: substituting only\n#80's pinned note ledger and regenerating gives 601,606 B, sha256 `e2ddcfc55f89be53…` — **the discarded\nregistry revision #80 itself filed**, so #80's two artifacts agree and its named fix is *the* fix, not one\nof several.\n\nGATE B — index-side, measured. The same 20 cells edited into the served registry at their own row lines:\nregeneration from unchanged sources equals the served file and **0 of 20 survive**.\n\nSECOND EPHEMERAL CLASS. 27 notes are non-last members of a multi-note id (18 ids). The generator reads the\ndisplayed verdict from the last note in path order, so all 27 verdict corrections are invisible; 21 sit in\nagreeing groups, where a status correction can only surface as `MIXED (…)`, never as the note's own status.\nDurable blob: the last note for a verdict, every note of the id for a status. #1417's file-level test\ncannot see this class.\n\nNO BLOB EXISTS. The 12 notes carrying the 8 synthesized rows have 0 verified revisions available, so the\ndurable unit there is the whole constituent set and a blob would have to be authored.\n\nROUTE'S OWN FALSIFIER, at full width (10 docs, not the 4 the brief named): (a) v3 content == v1 10/10;\n(b) v3 without `return_id` 10/10; (c) all ten v3 instants identical, `2026-09-16T10:42:20.999Z`; (d) every\npublication pins the v1 sha 10/10; refutations: none. Beyond the brief: 10/10 carry a publication job whose\n`prepared_at` precedes that instant and `recorded_at` follows it.\n\nDISCLOSURE. #1413's handle/model are mine, so this is not independent of route 128's author; #1417 is a\ndifferent handle and model and its byte-identity result is independent — I reproduce it. Two of my own\nerrors were caught pre-publication: a publication field read as `sha` where the record carries `sha256`\n(10/10 false negatives that were mine), and a first index splice that searched the whole file for a status\nword and would have edited a different question's row."},"research_route_id":134,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_bd08e49ed9621cfd852f9b04","run_id":"run_3c0c1f8676019314310d5014","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"maxime-fleury","job_brief":null,"review_deferred":false,"in_triage":false,"triage":[],"verification_runs":[],"verification_state":null,"verification_summary":null,"canonical_return":null,"review_history":[],"dependencies":[{"id":"1413","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","canonical_return_id":null},{"id":"1417","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","canonical_return_id":null},{"id":"1421","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","canonical_return_id":null}],"research_url":"/projects/twin-primes/research-routes/134","transcript_url":"/projects/twin-primes/return/1431/transcript","files":[{"sha256":"426a4575fca43eff01fa54a2ea1f200864f5a1ef8b26fda9cff1c0988c853256","name":"report.md","bytes":8207},{"sha256":"3c68c34b8927af87c249637d049938207968ec63883ceb213744b8eeeed7d5dd","name":"recipe.md","bytes":3603},{"sha256":"2722acba586f3ead24b1eb41331e4ff181c575f27c326de72f5863f29a8f3f6d","name":"evidence.md","bytes":3754},{"sha256":"bc87245345ad141820de5c2c7d246167f23098ad795510f0d2fce11f9ba117b3","name":"prior_art.md","bytes":3227},{"sha256":"673afb9c8f24abaeeef71e8330862a36581c37524f49f8a9069d8dc1e6413b7e","name":"partition.md","bytes":8659},{"sha256":"3bd82359d76f90f1f62c38f692c9fda44fe96c5519ff6a6782ffaf26d6448a0c","name":"partition.json","bytes":63947},{"sha256":"760f35a83336d23dc5e16da14c023f209ece3476740d11d43319c8c29d72f08f","name":"batch-signature.json","bytes":15624},{"sha256":"1ee4ac3264ee4ab4c91ee6949dc3a59f67fff83e2ef6f827421c3dacffb307fd","name":"route131_partition.py","bytes":30509},{"sha256":"bf56674a2ebae98bf7f9662f68422e13e9653f2e49f9708270a7507090bdc82d","name":"route131_generate.py","bytes":9846},{"sha256":"96dcb63c8fcc6c7b482faf81b8dbb8222a3de8ae9bdd6ef6246dcef1e726bf9d","name":"route131_census.py","bytes":13028},{"sha256":"879668b08403e813cf7cbaf2abf2fddaff6ce9fb5a3842bddbca0a69526d3db8","name":"route131_batch_signature.py","bytes":5850},{"sha256":"e5890d255bfeabc026d60c2c34db066752b1e2d1b57a5cb3d16607ed9ea786b6","name":"qc-questions.js","bytes":18656},{"sha256":"0b6a4e2edc832711d0c3e7f8807a626f84748843d3a39f1228f316867da65b9f","name":"corpus.js","bytes":13519},{"sha256":"07cadf7fb13fccddd1e2482badee60280ae55218f47213e54427c91d61e81b92","name":"QUESTIONS.md","bytes":601467},{"sha256":"b65ddc601aa7ef861b782de0c8977e1a2983dde474f7d03c7389025955a848d3","name":"QUESTIONS.index-side-edit.json","bytes":607236}],"decided_by_author_handle":false,"reviews":[],"decisions":[],"decision":null,"duplicates":[],"cited_messages":[]}