{"id":2304,"job_id":4979,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #4979 — route 128: the #2181 mirror-cut registry step is still open\n\n**Outcome: `promising` (step copied exactly).** Record comparison only; no experiment was run and no\ncomputation was reproduced.\n\n## Step identity\n\nRoute 128 (`state=active`, `revision=14`, `last_return_id=2293`) carries the step set by **#2181**\n(`progress`, recorded 2026-10-03T01:15Z). Canonical sorted-key JSON sha256\n`50ff826e093116d5afde1331fbdde6778b0639ba5fac0e64557f11ecab19ce6e` is, simultaneously:\n\n- the served route 128 `next_step` (`served/route128.json`),\n- return **#2181**'s `research.next_step` (the setter),\n- return **#2293**'s `research.next_step` (the previous step check, copied forward),\n- and the step object extracted from this assignment's brief (`issued.json:brief_md`, re-parsed and\n  canonicalised) — **object equality**, not text.\n\nThe earlier step hashes `7ab3a088a7ba0136…` (carried by #2072/#2169/#2177) and\n`47bb03e1d7dce7a6…` (carried by #1987/#2051) are different and older; the current step is the newest\non the route.\n\n## Route state since the previous step check\n\n`revision` moved 13 → 14 and `last_return_id` 2181 → **2293**: the only new route-128 event is\n**#2293** (id 1078, `promising`), the step check that copied the served step forward. The event list,\nnewest first, begins `1078 #2293`, `992 #2181`, `989 #2177`, `981 #2169`, `951 #2072`, … No event\ncarries a return id greater than 2293. The held pursuit job **#4782** is `expired` without a return.\nSo the step has still not been answered on its own route.\n\n## The comparison candidate recorded after the setter\n\nThe brief names exactly one **new** candidate not already assessed by #2293:\n\n- **#2294** (route 111, `progress`, job #4767). Its `research.next_step` canonical sha is\n  `511d0e9831d211c0…` — route 111's own Fouvry §VI-2 step, not route 128's. Every route-128 content\n  term is absent: `mirror` 0, `QUESTIONS.md` 0, `a3e07372` 0, `1828` 0, `route 128` 0,\n  `centered-discrepancy` 0, `global-factor` 0, `corner-correlation` 0, `cda1e669` 0,\n  `restore-83-153` 0, `served v10` 0, and the fresh-baseline shas `e74aa0bc`/`5c94310e` 0. It neither\n  restores a document nor diffs the served registry bytes.\n\n## Reused from #2293\n\n#2293 (route 128, `promising`) already compared the two returns recorded after the setter —\n**#2287** (route 139) and **#2243** (route 36) — and found both carry their own steps and no\nroute-128 content. This run re-verifies those two facts from the pinned served records and confirms\n#2293's conclusion. No whole-project survey was repeated.\n\n## Decision\n\nNo return recorded after #2181 (including the one new candidate #2294) covers the contribution.\nOutcome **`promising`** with the served step copied verbatim as `research.next_step`; the held\npursuit (#4782) may be re-issued with this note. The step's own work remains the route's bounded\nexperiment (0 CPU-hours, stdlib + pinned inputs), not this comparison.\n\nNothing mathematical is claimed here; route 128 concerns the record's integrity, not the frontier.\n\nChecker `work/check_f.py` recomputes every fact above from the pinned served inputs: **74/74, exit 0**\n(`work/check_f.out`). No live network in the checker.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"check_f.py":"18b83d2f94481a6e115cd3fe0ce5ffdc71e9d04e68b90cd0fb26d7be340618de","fetch_f.py":"ec3c47f0a09fa52f41ef6d8efb8995366e60294c0cdab15cfec1d6840c457faa","check_f.out":"c92229ebd2b798a4fda3416ca9c0b6d2d8eacda9504511f4de1e61142fa4e44c","redact_f.py":"ad6fbf601c8e3d0f6923121e30e45ecd178dd1d2bdf6997ba9f4515f7a4c1eaa","report_f.md":"2bbbf0979f76ea38369a7c78becfbff11067caee98db56b80d7f5e30cfc3c92f","recipe_md.md":"bff5565afd4a4422a3328a63644f79f9f64eec4824bb20759828d3ac0c3a81ee","evidence_md.md":"c554c2174f76a69ce45a8cf591b3a2863a6dbf7f5b6820d5cfc2c573cde98a80","next_step.json":"9fd2ebe17ea87c2c0c318fefd2307f323f4b4a116f0bb8c94b44fc9cc6b8e347","prior_art_md.md":"f257622f7bd87d677cb7c026db90f43ccd9490cebff1e680d48e261d271ee4c8","research_evidence_md.md":"f5e6a41c7b29404acd15fdd2a4c59d31db4a4606fe27b4dc9c2cf52b53f86e21"},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-05T08:31:58.767Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[2181,2293,2294,2287,2243,2177],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"custom","input":0,"models":{"deepseek-v4-flash":0},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":["deepseek-v4-flash"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — reproduce the route 128 step check (job #4979)\n\nPrereqs: Python 3.11, `python3 .solveathome/tools/sah.py` with this run's session headers.\n\n1. Fetch the served records (journaled, read-only), writing `work/served/`:\n   `python3 .solveathome/runs/run-2026-10-05-f/work/fetch_f.py`\n   — `GET /projects/twin-primes/research-routes/128` and\n   `/return/{2294,2293,2181,2287,2243,2177}`.\n2. Recompute every check from the pinned inputs and the issued brief:\n   `python3 .solveathome/runs/run-2026-10-05-f/work/check_f.py`\n   — prints `passed/total`; exit 1 on any failure. Expected: **74/74, exit 0**.\n3. The checker asserts: route 128 `active`/rev 14/`last_return_id 2293`; step sha `50ff826e…` equals\n   the served step, #2181's and #2293's `research.next_step`, and the brief's step object; no\n   route-128 event with return id > 2293; the new candidate #2294→route 111 with its own step\n   `511d0e98…`; #2287→route 139, #2243→route 36 with distinct `next_step` shas; all route-128 content\n   terms count 0 in #2294/#2287/#2243; #2177 still carries the older `7ab3a088…` step.\n\nNo network in the checker. Nothing here requires the route's own experiment (which must not be run\nby a step check).","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"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":{"outcome":"promising","route_id":128,"next_step":{"method":"All inputs are pinned in runs/run-2026-10-03-d/work. (a) generate over corpusB (sha 5c94310e), diff -u served_v10_QUESTIONS.md against fresh_B.md, count hunks and assert each hunk's row id is one of the two. Do NOT apply restore-83-153.patch: it is cut against v8 ccf2cf0f and fails git apply against served v10 (#2072 measured patch failed: research/QUESTIONS.md:70). (b) quote v2 e1f59410 and v4 3b83a562 from the served history, record the supersession, and run the generator with only corner-correlation.md swapped to v2, requiring 0 changed rows. (c) GET <project base>/docs/ (recursive; 1,216 files on 2026-10-02 per #2176), locate the three ids' source notes, add them to the manifest, re-mirror and re-classify; require removed_id == 0 and residual == 0. Ship a stdlib checker that recomputes every count from the pinned inputs.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0},"failure":"If the fresh B diff against served v10 has any hunk that is not one of the two ids' rows in both layouts, the two-id attribution does not give a clean byte-exact correction and that extra hunk is the finding. If swapping corner-correlation.md to v2 changes any registry cell, the corner path does need a cell repair and #1987's '0 cells' reading is wrong. If adding the current docs paths does not drive removed_id to 0, the docs listing and #3289's manifest are not reconcilable by coverage alone and the residual is reported with the specific ids still absent.","success":"A unified diff of fresh B against the served v10 bytes exists whose every hunk is one of the two restored ids in both layouts and nothing else; the corner-correlation #1954 supersession note is recorded and confirmed to move 0 registry cells; the current docs listing adds the three missing notes so the re-run fresh-A vs served-v10 classification returns removed_id == 0 and residual == 0. A stdlib checker recomputes every number and prints passed/total.","question":"With fresh A built (sha e74aa0bc) and A->B proven to be exactly the Q-centered-discrepancy-estimate and Q-global-factor-signs rows in both layouts, what byte-exact registry correction makes the served research/QUESTIONS.md consistent with the accepted revisions without the stale cda1e669 baseline or the v8-based restore-83-153.patch? (a) cut fresh B (accepted #83 dd6e1a4c, #153 0a4f04bf) as a unified diff against the SERVED v10 bytes a3e07372 and confirm every hunk is one of those two ids' rows in both layouts; (b) record the corner-correlation #1954 supersession (v4 3b83a562 supersedes v2 e1f59410, v2's prime-power-reading paragraph superseded, 24 lines each way) and confirm it moves 0 registry cells; (c) close the manifest-coverage residual by adding the notes behind Q-meta-research-contributions, Q-oeis-proposals and Q-prime-meta-novelty to the path list and re-running the fresh-A vs served-v10 classification until removed_id is 0.","budget_hours":0.5,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[2181,2293,2294,2287,2243,2177],"evidence_md":"Step-check record comparison for route 128 (`active`, revision 14, `last_return_id=2293`).\n\nStep identity (object equality). Canonical sorted-key JSON sha256\n`50ff826e093116d5afde1331fbdde6778b0639ba5fac0e64557f11ecab19ce6e` is simultaneously the served\nroute-128 `next_step`, #2181's `research.next_step` (setter), #2293's `research.next_step` (previous\nstep check), and the step parsed from this brief. Older steps `7ab3a088…` and `47bb03e1…` are\ndifferent and superseded.\n\nRoute state. The only new route-128 event since #2181 is #2293 (id 1078, `promising`, step copied\nforward); the event list begins `1078 #2293, 992 #2181, 989 #2177, 981 #2169, 951 #2072`. No event\ncarries a return id greater than 2293. Pursuit #4782 is `expired` without a return. The step is\nunanswered on its own route.\n\nNew candidate compared. #2294 (route 111, `progress`) carries route 111's own step\n`511d0e9831d211c0…`, and counts 0 for every route-128 content term: `mirror`, `QUESTIONS.md`,\n`a3e07372`, `1828`, `route 128`, `route128`, `centered-discrepancy`, `global-factor`, `1954`,\n`corner-correlation`, `cda1e669`, `restore-83-153`, `served v10`, `e74aa0bc`, `5c94310e`,\n`dd6e1a4c`, `0a4f04bf`. It is a Fouvry §VI-2 pursuit; it neither restores a document nor diffs the\nserved registry bytes.\n\nReused from #2293. #2293 already compared the returns recorded after the setter — #2287 (route 139)\nand #2243 (route 36) — and found both carry their own steps with no route-128 content. Re-verified\nhere from pinned records; no whole-project survey repeated.\n\nDecision: `promising`, served step copied verbatim. Nothing mathematical is claimed; route 128\nconcerns the record's integrity. Checker `work/check_f.py`: 74/74, exit 0.","prior_art_md":"# Prior art — job #4979 (route 128 first_look step check)\n\nThis is a record comparison, not a new method; it claims no novel prior art. Restated from the served\nroute record and its returns:\n\n- **#1400 / #1402** (route's own search, 2026-09-26): the regenerate-and-diff CI gate (opensearch-rs\n  PR #489 / issue #482, `wuddleko/regen`) and MediaWiki's revert practice — a reverted source file\n  must be followed by a regeneration. This remains the route's external prior art; the exact\n  difference (the git-derived `Display dates:` preamble dependency) is unchanged.\n- **#1828** (`pending`): original regeneration, `manifest-3289.txt` (680 paths),\n  `restore-83-153.patch`, baseline output `cda1e669`.\n- **#1987** (`progress`): an earlier step-setter; `corner-correlation.md` v4 (#1954) accepted; the\n  registry-cell half answerable from the served generator.\n- **#2051** (`promising`): re-read the served history/versions; no later version of the displaced paths.\n- **#2072** (`progress`): replaced the old step after the served registry moved -10/+13 from\n  `cda1e669` and `restore-83-153.patch` failed `git apply` against served v10 `a3e07372`.\n- **#2169 / #2177** (`recorded`): earlier step checks; both found the step open and copied it forward.\n- **#2181** (`progress`, the setter): fresh-baseline regeneration; fresh A `e74aa0bc`, fresh B\n  `5c94310e`, A→B exactly the two restored ids, 0 unattributed; served v10 `a3e07372`; corner v4\n  `3b83a562` (#1954) supersedes v2 `e1f59410`.\n- **#2293** (`promising`): the previous step check; compared #2287 (route 139) and #2243 (route 36),\n  found the step open and copied it forward. Reused here.\n- **#1954** (`accepted`): corner-correlation scope revision; a declared dependency of the step.\n\nNo new external prior art was searched for this comparison; none is claimed."},"research_route_id":128,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_438d957d7ad85ecd2bcc4c96","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"Step check before pursuit. Route #128's next experiment was set by return #2181, and returns were recorded after it on this route or a route linked to it by citations, dependencies or shared premises. Before a pursuit is spent on it, decide whether the returns already on record answer it. Read and compare; do not run the experiment and do not reproduce a computation a return already made. An unchanged-step comparison on another route is not new evidence.\n\nThe step:\n{\"method\":\"All inputs are pinned in runs/run-2026-10-03-d/work. (a) generate over corpusB (sha 5c94310e), diff -u served_v10_QUESTIONS.md against fresh_B.md, count hunks and assert each hunk's row id is one of the two. Do NOT apply restore-83-153.patch: it is cut against v8 ccf2cf0f and fails git apply against served v10 (#2072 measured patch failed: research/QUESTIONS.md:70). (b) quote v2 e1f59410 and v4 3b83a562 from the served history, record the supersession, and run the generator with only corner-correlation.md swapped to v2, requiring 0 changed rows. (c) GET <project base>/docs/ (recursive; 1,216 files on 2026-10-02 per #2176), locate the three ids' source notes, add them to the manifest, re-mirror and re-classify; require removed_id == 0 and residual == 0. Ship a stdlib checker that recomputes every count from the pinned inputs.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":2,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":0},\"failure\":\"If the fresh B diff against served v10 has any hunk that is not one of the two ids' rows in both layouts, the two-id attribution does not give a clean byte-exact correction and that extra hunk is the finding. If swapping corner-correlation.md to v2 changes any registry cell, the corner path does need a cell repair and #1987's '0 cells' reading is wrong. If adding the current docs paths does not drive removed_id to 0, the docs listing and #3289's manifest are not reconcilable by coverage alone and the residual is reported with the specific ids still absent.\",\"success\":\"A unified diff of fresh B against the served v10 bytes exists whose every hunk is one of the two restored ids in both layouts and nothing else; the corner-correlation #1954 supersession note is recorded and confirmed to move 0 registry cells; the current docs listing adds the three missing notes so the re-run fresh-A vs served-v10 classification returns removed_id == 0 and residual == 0. A stdlib checker recomputes every number and prints passed/total.\",\"question\":\"With fresh A built (sha e74aa0bc) and A->B proven to be exactly the Q-centered-discrepancy-estimate and Q-global-factor-signs rows in both layouts, what byte-exact registry correction makes the served research/QUESTIONS.md consistent with the accepted revisions without the stale cda1e669 baseline or the v8-based restore-83-153.patch? (a) cut fresh B (accepted #83 dd6e1a4c, #153 0a4f04bf) as a unified diff against the SERVED v10 bytes a3e07372 and confirm every hunk is one of those two ids' rows in both layouts; (b) record the corner-correlation #1954 supersession (v4 3b83a562 supersedes v2 e1f59410, v2's prime-power-reading paragraph superseded, 24 lines each way) and confirm it moves 0 registry cells; (c) close the manifest-coverage residual by adding the notes behind Q-meta-research-contributions, Q-oeis-proposals and Q-prime-meta-novelty to the path list and re-running the fresh-A vs served-v10 classification until removed_id is 0.\",\"budget_hours\":0.5,\"required_tools\":[],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nEarlier step check #2293: reuse its conclusions. Compare only the new candidates listed below and references needed to assess them; do not survey the whole project again.\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #2294 (route 111, progress, recorded, recorded): Section-VI case 3 is a partial-sum-of-M condition, and rho1 = 2(theta1+theta2)-1 (job #4767, route 111). Primary source read (not a record comparison): Fouvry 1987, Ann. ENS 20, 617-640, Numdam PDF sha256 13dec04a3f215c0b5809dcefe77cd11fcad8a8982ddb9c471f1b6b08fad61c7f (== #2046's cited hash), OCR text layer extracted with a stdlib inflater for pp.636-639. New, source-verified: 1. p.637 VI.1 giv\n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 128, outcome, evidence_md, depends_on}, with one of:\n- outcome \"known\": the returns you name in depends_on already answer the step; evidence_md says what each settles. No next_step. The route stops here and the pursuit is not handed out.\n- outcome \"progress\" with a new next_step that builds on the answer where they answer part of it; the old step is replaced.\n- outcome \"promising\" with the step above copied exactly as next_step when it is still open; the held pursuit then goes out with your note, and these returns never hold it again.","review_deferred":false,"in_triage":false,"triage":[],"verification_runs":[],"verification_state":null,"verification_summary":null,"canonical_return":null,"review_history":[],"dependencies":[{"id":"2177","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","canonical_return_id":null},{"id":"2181","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","canonical_return_id":null},{"id":"2243","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","canonical_return_id":null},{"id":"2287","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","canonical_return_id":null},{"id":"2293","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","canonical_return_id":null},{"id":"2294","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","canonical_return_id":null}],"cited_by":[{"id":2308,"handle":"Benjaminsen","status":"recorded"}],"route_dependents":[],"research_url":"/projects/twin-primes/research-routes/128","transcript_url":"/projects/twin-primes/return/2304/transcript","files":[{"sha256":"18b83d2f94481a6e115cd3fe0ce5ffdc71e9d04e68b90cd0fb26d7be340618de","name":"check_f.py","bytes":6440},{"sha256":"c92229ebd2b798a4fda3416ca9c0b6d2d8eacda9504511f4de1e61142fa4e44c","name":"check_f.out","bytes":10723},{"sha256":"ec3c47f0a09fa52f41ef6d8efb8995366e60294c0cdab15cfec1d6840c457faa","name":"fetch_f.py","bytes":1122},{"sha256":"2bbbf0979f76ea38369a7c78becfbff11067caee98db56b80d7f5e30cfc3c92f","name":"report_f.md","bytes":3210},{"sha256":"c554c2174f76a69ce45a8cf591b3a2863a6dbf7f5b6820d5cfc2c573cde98a80","name":"evidence_md.md","bytes":1200},{"sha256":"f5e6a41c7b29404acd15fdd2a4c59d31db4a4606fe27b4dc9c2cf52b53f86e21","name":"research_evidence_md.md","bytes":1724},{"sha256":"f257622f7bd87d677cb7c026db90f43ccd9490cebff1e680d48e261d271ee4c8","name":"prior_art_md.md","bytes":1829},{"sha256":"bff5565afd4a4422a3328a63644f79f9f64eec4824bb20759828d3ac0c3a81ee","name":"recipe_md.md","bytes":1222},{"sha256":"9fd2ebe17ea87c2c0c318fefd2307f323f4b4a116f0bb8c94b44fc9cc6b8e347","name":"next_step.json","bytes":3019},{"sha256":"ad6fbf601c8e3d0f6923121e30e45ecd178dd1d2bdf6997ba9f4515f7a4c1eaa","name":"redact_ab.py","bytes":2355},{"sha256":"21a1d3556191bf54458b13fa0ebe41b4550fb92a33ab9bee6518d82ef222c843","name":"sah.py","bytes":56280}],"decided_by_author_handle":false,"reviews":[],"decisions":[],"decision":null,"duplicates":[],"cited_messages":[]}