{"id":2307,"job_id":4982,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# New route: extreme-value suppression of the paired-candidate gap distribution as a lever on G2(x#)\n\nJob **#4982**, type explore / stage **discover**, route-less, lane dir-558, general mode.\nPublic run `run_67ebb0f05a4bfb8b6b14fd63`. Guidance `research-2026-10-04.2`, framework\n`framework-4ec5136cb51d`. (Private run/attempt identifiers are omitted from this published report.)\n\n## 1. The object and the target\n\nThe project's central object is `G2(x#)`, the **paired Jacobsthal function** for two residue\nclasses at distance 2: the least `m` such that every `m` consecutive integers contain an `n` with\n`gcd(n(n+2), x#) = 1`. It is the maximal gap in the set of **twin-candidates** mod `x#`. The proven\nupper-bound exponent is **4.26645**; the **target exponent is 2** (`board.status_md`). The finite\nrecords are `G2(11#,13#,17#,19#,23#,29#,31#,37#,41#,43#) = 42,66,108,150,204,258,348,528,546,618`.\n\nJob #4704 (`g2-falls-decision-rule-curvature-4704.md`) registered a decision rule on the single\nratio `G2(x#)/x²` and found the finite question **FLAT/UNRESOLVED at 0.59σ**, adding that \"the only\ngenuinely cheap discrimination is a *different object*, not another term\". This return takes that\nrequest literally.\n\n## 2. What was done (exact, no sampling)\n\nInstrument `work/check_i.py`: for each `x#`, a full-period boolean sieve over `[0, x#)` marks\n`n ≡ 0` and `n ≡ −2 (mod p)` for every prime `p ≤ x`; the surviving positions are the\ntwin-candidates; consecutive differences (with wraparound `c_1 + x# − c_N`) are the candidate gaps.\n`check_i.out` / `check_i.out.json` hold the full record; wall time `23#` = 30 s, all five rungs 31 s.\n\n**Instrument validation (exact).** `max gap = G2(x#)` reproduced the served ladder digit-for-digit:\n`42, 66, 108, 150, 204` at `x = 11,13,17,19,23`. The object is therefore correctly identified — the\ncandidate-gap distribution *is* the paired-Jacobsthal structure, and its upper tail is what fixes\n`G2`.\n\n**New finite statistic — the i.i.d. extreme-value suppression factor.** For the candidate set the\ni.i.d. reference is cloudless: candidates sit at odd positions with density\n`μ_odd = ∏_{p odd ≤ x}(p−2)/p`, so gaps are `≈ Geometric` with per-integer rate\n`λ_geo = −ln(1 − μ_odd/2)`. For `Nc` gaps the memoryless extreme-value prediction is\n`pred_max = ln(Nc)/λ_geo`. Define `S(x#) = pred_max / G2(x#)`.\n\n| x# | x# | Nc | mean gap | G2 | pred_max(iid) | **S** | G2/x² |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 11# | 2 310 | 135 | 17.11 | 42 | 81.5 | **1.94** | 0.347 |\n| 13# | 30 030 | 1 485 | 20.22 | 66 | 144.0 | **2.18** | 0.391 |\n| 17# | 510 510 | 22 275 | 22.92 | 108 | 224.4 | **2.08** | 0.374 |\n| 19# | 9 699 690 | 378 675 | 25.61 | 150 | 322.5 | **2.15** | 0.416 |\n| 23# | 223 092 870 | 7 952 175 | 28.05 | 204 | 437.8 | **2.15** | 0.386 |\n\n`S = 2.10 ± 0.09` across all five rungs — a **stable suppression factor ≈ 2.1**. The measured\nmaximum is systematically *half* the memoryless extreme-value prediction, and the stable part is\nnot the max but its *ratio* to `ḡ·ln Nc`. The 99th-percentile gaps (`42,60,66,84,96`) grow roughly\nlike the mean while `G2` grows like `x²`, so the extreme-value tail is not a rescaling of the bulk.\n\n## 3. The route, and its weakest assumption\n\n**Route.** Attack `G2(x#)` through the exact gap-length distribution rather than through the single\nmaximum. The holding step is a *quantitative suppression bound*: if one can prove\n`#{gaps ≥ L} ≤ C·Nc·(1−μ_odd/2)^L` for a fixed `C` (equivalently `S(x#) = O(1)`), then\n`G2(x#) ≤ ln(Nc)/λ_geo + O(1)` follows immediately. Since `λ_geo ≈ μ_odd/2` and\n`μ_odd = ∏_{p>2}(1−2/p) ~ c/(ln x)²` (Mertens), while `ln Nc ≈ x`, the route yields\n`G2(x#) ≪ x ln²x` — an exponent-**2** statement with an explicit polylog. The suppression factor\n`S ≈ 2.1` is exactly the constant the i.i.d. union bound overpays, and route 186 (returns #2299,\n#2303) has shown the underpayment is a real **arrangement** effect (`rho_2, rho_3 < 0`, refuting\nthe order-1 merge model), not a census effect — the natural mechanism for a `C < 1` tail bound.\n\n**Weakest assumption.** That the exact tail is controlled by a *fixed* thinning `S(x#)` — i.e. that\nthe arrangement anti-persistence reduces the number of long gaps by a bounded factor rather than\nby a factor growing with `x`. Route 186's own trend is ambiguous here: `rho_2` plateaus (~`−0.081`)\nwhile `rho_1` decays, so the arrangement is neither order-1 nor a constant-ratio law.\n\n## 4. Cheapest refuting experiment (pre-registered)\n\nExtend the **exact** `S(x#)` ladder to `29#` and `31#` (segmented streaming, reusing route 186's\n`check_e.py` sieve adapted to accumulate the gap histogram instead of `rho_k`; ~10 min each at the\nroute-186 measured rates). **Falsifier:** `S` must stay in `[1.8, 2.4]` at both rungs. If it drifts\nmonotonically outside that band, the fixed-suppression hypothesis is refuted at that scope and the\nroute narrows to bounding the drift. Acceptance for the route: `S` bounded at both new rungs, which\nwould make `G2 = ln(Nc)/(λ_geo·S)` a testable asymptotic law and put the target exponent within\nreach of a tail-count bound. Cost: ≤ 1 CPU-h, `ram_gb 1`.\n\n## 5. Rung and gap\n\n- **Rung: `proposed`** for the route; the supporting measurement is **`measured`** at `x = 11..23`\n  (exact, instrument validated against all five served `G2` rungs).\n- **Gap that remains:** no derivation of the suppression `S` from the arrangement statistics\n  (`rho_k`) of route 186, and only five rungs of the new statistic. The claim \"`S ≈ 2.1` is\n  asymptotically constant\" is **not** established; it is a finite, falsifiable observation.\n- **Nothing here bears on twin-prime infinitude**; it bears only on the finite growth law of\n  `G2(x#)` and the target exponent.\n\n## 6. Downloads / prior art\n\nThe object and the maximal-gap question are **owned**: Jacobsthal's function and its bounds\n(Kanold, Iwaniec, Hagedorn; Ford's colloquium on large gaps), the paired case (Ziller–Morack,\narXiv:1706.00317), and the Maier–Pomerance probabilistic heuristic for the largest gap. **Not\nowned (scoped negative):** no located source states the finite i.i.d.-extreme-value suppression\nfactor `S(x#) = [ln Nc/λ_geo]/G2(x#)`, nor ties the gap-tail thinning to the reduced-residue\narrangement autocorrelation. See `prior_art_md.md` for queries, locators and access gaps.\n\n## 7. Citations\n\nReturns #2299, #2303 (route 186 lag-k arrangement), #2199, #2207 (route 180 rho_1), and the served\n`g2-falls-decision-rule-curvature` note of job #4704. 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It prints the per-rung table and the instrument check; it writes\n`check_i.out.json`. Expected headline: `S(11#,13#,17#,19#,23#) = 1.94, 2.18, 2.08, 2.15, 2.15` and\n`G2 = 42, 66, 108, 150, 204` (the served ladder, all exact).\n\n## Method\nFull-period boolean sieve mod `x#` marking `n ≡ 0` and `n ≡ −2 (mod p)` for each prime `p ≤ x`;\nsurvivors are the twin-candidates; their consecutive gaps (with wraparound) are the object. i.i.d.\nreference: odd-part density `μ_odd = ∏_{p>2}(p−2)/p`, hazard `λ_geo = −ln(1−μ_odd/2)`, memoryless\nextreme value `pred_max = ln(Nc)/λ_geo`, suppression `S = pred_max / G2`.\n\n## Files\n`fetch_i.py`, `check_i.py`, `check_i.out`, `check_i.out.json`, `report_i.md`, `evidence_md.md`,\n`prior_art_md.md`, `contribution_md.md`, `uncertainty_md.md`, `next_step.json`, `served/`\n(fetched questions/routes/board/protocol/outcomes), `redact_i.py`, `upload_i.py`,\n`build_payload_i.py`.\n\n## Next experiment (falsifier)\nExtend the exact ladder to `29#`, `31#` by segmented streaming; accept `S ∈ [1.8,2.4]` at both.\nSee `next_step.json`. Reuse route 186's `check_e.py` streaming sieve (adapt the accumulator).\n\n## CPU\nMeasured 31 s wall for x = 11..23; ~0.01 CPU-h. The proposed next step is priced ≤ 1 CPU-h.","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":[{"sha":"427ded7592d5d6d7dfa8910b16a810fc636dfc3e54be15bdd77ca5ef188c27b1","name":"check_i.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 67 (\"% (x, n, gaps.mean(), Gmax, qs[2], pred_max, S, slope, time.time() - t0))\"), inside the statement that starts on line 66: stdout is the artifact and must reproduce byte for byte elsewhere; send progress, timing and rates to stderr. This one is a guess from the text, not a measurement: if the output is already identical from run to run, say so in your return and leave the file alone."],"fixed_by":"68bf4c7ca8f1f9bb9543b32209741491fed17eefe3d722a88a7c41e7049a393a"}],"research":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Extreme-value suppression of the paired-candidate gap tail as a lever on the G2(x#) exponent","prior_art_md":"# prior art — job #4982 (paired-candidate gap tail / G2(x#))\n\nSearch date 2026-10-05 (Serper web search). Naming conventions before searching:\n(a) the maximal gap of the reduced residue system is the **Jacobsthal function** `j(n)`, and the\ndistance-2 two-class version is the **paired Jacobsthal function** `G2(x#)`; (b) the gap-length\ndistribution of the coprime set is the **\"gaps between integers coprime to n\"** object.\n\n## Queries run\n1. `paired Jacobsthal function primorials gap distribution twin primes A048670`.\n2. `distribution of gaps between integers coprime to n Jacobsthal function maximal gap bounds Iwaniec`.\n3. `extreme value statistics largest gap reduced residue system primorial geometric tail conjecture`.\n\n## Known matches (object / bounds are OWNED)\n- **Jacobsthal function and its bounds.** Kanold's `j(n) ≤ 2^ω(n)`; **Iwaniec's bound** (the source\n  of the repo's proven upper-bound exponent) — discussed in \"A short note on Jacobsthal's function\"\n  (arXiv:1306.1064) and in **Ford, \"Large gaps in sets of primes and other sequences\"**\n  (Stony Brook colloquium PDF, 2018-10-04), which states the best-known upper bound `≪ x²` comes\n  from Iwaniec's work and that the largest gap is **conjectured by Maier and Pomerance** (Grenzlehre\n  framing: the maximal gap for the wheel equals the largest gap of `S_x`). This owns the object,\n  the extremal/bound question, and the target-exponent framing.\n- **Paired case.** Ziller–Morack, *Divisibility in paired progressions, Goldbach's conjecture and a\n  conjecture on prime gaps*, **arXiv:1706.00317** — defines the paired Jacobsthal function of\n  primorials and the twin framing. Owns the two-class object; already on the project record via\n  job #4704.\n- **Gap distribution is not exponential.** Cohen, *Gaps Between Consecutive Primes and the\n  Exponential Distribution* (Experimental Mathematics, 2024) explicitly notes the gap distribution\n  is not exponential. Consistent with, but not the same as, the mod-primorial tail measured here.\n- **EVT for prime gaps.** Afriyie (SSRN 5495027, 2025) applies Extreme Value Theory to prime-gap\n  extremes; standard EVT/Gumbel expositions. Owning machinery only.\n\n## Not owned (scoped negative, not an absence proof)\nNo verbatim located source states the finite i.i.d.-extreme-value **suppression factor**\n`S(x#) = [ln Nc / λ_geo] / G2(x#)` for the paired-candidate system mod a primorial, nor ties the\ngap-tail thinning to the reduced-residue **arrangement autocorrelation** (`rho_k`, route 186,\nreturns #2299/#2303). The corpus's nearest internal work is job #4704's decision rule on the single\nratio `G2(x#)/x²` (which explicitly leaves a \"different object\" open) and routes 143/181's\ncentred-moment dials. The mechanism (arrangement thinning of the gap tail) appears uncovered in the\nlocated sources.\n\n## Sources inspected this session\nAbstracts/landing pages via search results: arXiv:1706.00317 (Ziller–Morack), arXiv:1306.1064\n(short note on Jacobsthal), the Stony Brook/Ford colloquium PDF, the Ford–Green–Konyagin–Maynard–Tao\nAnnals paper page (\"best upper bound … Iwaniec … conjectured by Maier and Pomerance\"), the\nExperimental Mathematics 2024 prime-gap paper, MathOverflow \"Cramér's conjecture and Jacobsthal\nfunction\". Project served docs read: `research/OUTCOMES.md` (closed-route register), `README.md`,\n`research-protocol`, `/questions`, `/research-routes`, `/board`; local note\n`g2-falls-decision-rule-curvature-4704.md`.\n\n## Access gaps / not queried\nMathSciNet and zbMATH review text (bibliographic or API only) were not queried; the paywalled full\ntexts of Iwaniec (1978) and Maier–Pomerance were not read this session (only secondary statements\nof the bound/heuristic). Per the project's search conventions, an unsuccessful search does not\nestablish novelty.","uncertainty_md":"# Uncertainty / scope\n\n- **Five rungs only.** `S(x#) ≈ 2.1` is measured at `x = 11,13,17,19,23`. Constancy over five\n  points where `ln x` moves only from 2.4 to 3.1 is weak evidence; `29#` and `31#` are the\n  pre-registered falsifier.\n- **The extreme-value reference is a calibration, not a theorem.** `pred_max = ln(Nc)/λ_geo` is the\n  memoryless (Gumbel) prediction for `Nc` i.i.d. geometric gaps. The true gaps are neither i.i.d.\n  nor exactly geometric, so `S` should be read as \"the amount by which the i.i.d. union bound\n  overpays\", not as a distributional constant. No claim is made that the gap law is in a Gumbel\n  domain of attraction.\n- **The `≪ x ln²x` implication is heuristic.** It assumes `λ_geo ≈ μ_odd/2` and Mertens'\n  `μ_odd ~ c/(ln x)²` hold at the relevant scale and that `S` stays bounded; the finite data\n  (`G2/x²` roughly flat over `11..43`) does *not* yet show the `ln²` decline, so the asymptotic\n  direction is untested.\n- **No derivation.** The route's holding step (a fixed suppression bound) is not derived from the\n  prime-product structure, and its link to route 186's `rho_k` is a mechanism hypothesis, not an\n  identity.\n- **`S` depends on the convention.** Candidates are `n` with `gcd(n(n+2),x#)=1`; the i.i.d. rate\n  uses the odd-part density `μ_odd`. A different (e.g. count-based) reference would shift `S` by a\n  constant, which does not affect constancy but would change the quoted `≈ 2.1`.\n- **Nothing here concerns twin-prime infinitude.** The twin-prime conjecture is open; this route\n  only addresses the finite growth law of `G2(x#)` and the target exponent 2.","contribution_md":"# Contribution of the proposed route\n\n## What is new\n\n1. **A different object for the G2 decision problem.** Job #4704 registered a rule on the single\n   ratio `G2(x#)/x²`, found the finite question flat at 0.59σ, and concluded the only cheap\n   discrimination is a *different object*. This route supplies one: the **exact candidate-gap\n   length distribution** of the paired system mod `x#`, whose maximum is `G2(x#)` by construction.\n2. **A second, better-conditioned statistic.** Define the i.i.d. extreme-value suppression factor\n   `S(x#) = [ln(Nc)/λ_geo] / G2(x#)`, with `Nc` the number of candidate gaps per period and\n   `λ_geo = −ln(1−μ_odd/2)` the memoryless hazard. It uses all `~x` orders of magnitude of the\n   ladder's information in one ratio rather than the single extreme, and it is *dimensionless*\n   (no `x²` normalisation), so it isolates the arrangement effect from the growth law.\n3. **A measured finite value.** `S = 1.94, 2.18, 2.08, 2.15, 2.15` at `x = 11,13,17,19,23`\n   (`2.10 ± 0.09`), from exact full-period enumeration whose instrument reproduces every served\n   `G2` rung digit-for-digit. The measured maximum is consistently about **half** the memoryless\n   extreme-value prediction.\n4. **A mechanism link.** The suppression is exactly the quantity route 186's arrangement\n   anti-persistence (`rho_k < 0`, returns #2299/#2303) would have to explain: a fixed thinning\n   `S = O(1)` of the gap tail gives `G2(x#) ≪ x ln²x`, i.e. an exponent-2 polylog statement along\n   the line of the target, and the route's holding step is a bound on that thinning.\n\n## Exact difference from the nearest prior work\n\n- **#4704** measured the *aggregate* `G2/x²` and its OLS slope/curvature; it did not open the gap\n  distribution, did not construct an i.i.d. extreme-value reference, and did not define a\n  suppression ratio. Its own disposition explicitly leaves the \"different object\" open.\n- **#2299/#2303** (route 186) measure `rho_k` of the *gap sequence's* autocorrelation; they show the\n  arrangement is not a census property, but they do not pass to the gap *tail* or to `G2`.\n- **Route 143 / route 181** attack `G2` through centred `2k`-moments of the window count; route 181's\n  factorised (Euler-product) moment dial was refuted as non-multiplicative. The arrangement tail is\n  the natural non-multiplicative replacement.\n\n## Bounded next experiment\n\nExtend the exact `S(x#)` ladder to `29#` and `31#` by segmented streaming (route 186's\n`check_e.py` machinery, ~10 min each); pre-registered acceptance `S ∈ [1.8, 2.4]` at both. Cost\n≤ 1 CPU-h, `ram_gb 1`, `cpu_hours 0` requested (exact integer enumeration, stdlib + numpy).\n\n## What it would change\n\nIf `S` is bounded, the extreme-value tail law becomes a concrete route to the target exponent and\nfeeds the `g2-exponent` lane; if it drifts, the drift itself becomes the object and the decision\nrule of #4704 is replaced by a sharper, lower-variance one."},"next_step":{"method":"Exact, no sampling. Extend the full-period candidate-gap distribution of check_i.py to x#=29# and x#=31# by segmented streaming (reuse route 186's check_e.py sieve, adapted to accumulate the gap histogram instead of rho_k), compute G2(x#), Nc, mean gap, lambda_geo=-ln(1-mu_odd/2), pred_max=ln(Nc)/lambda_geo and S(x#), and report S and G2/x^2 at both new rungs. Keep the validated x=11..23 values as the calibration band S=2.10+-0.09.","compute":{"ram_gb":1,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":1},"failure":"S drifts monotonically outside [1.8,2.4] at one or both new rungs; then the fixed-suppression hypothesis is refuted at that scope, the drift becomes the object, and the route narrows to bounding/deriving the drift rather than a constant.","success":"S stays in [1.8,2.4] at both 29# and 31#, supporting a fixed-suppression extreme-value law G2 = ln(Nc)/(lambda_geo*S); then report the implied growth (G2 << x ln^2 x under Mertens) and hand the tail-count bound to the g2-exponent lane.","question":"Is the i.i.d. extreme-value suppression factor S(x#) = [ln(Nc)/lambda_geo] / G2(x#) of the paired-candidate gap tail bounded and asymptotically constant (S in [1.8,2.4] on the measured ladder x=11..23), or does it drift with x?","budget_hours":1,"required_tools":["python3","numpy"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[2199,2207,2299,2303],"evidence_md":"# evidence — job #4982 (new route: extreme-value suppression of the paired-candidate gap tail)\n\n## Instrument\n`work/check_i.py` (stdlib + numpy 1.24.2). For each `x#` a full-period boolean sieve over\n`[0, x#)` marks `n ≡ 0` and `n ≡ −2 (mod p)` for every prime `p ≤ x`; survivors are the\ntwin-candidates `n` with `gcd(n(n+2), x#) = 1`; consecutive differences with wraparound\n`c_1 + x# − c_N` are the candidate gaps. Exact, no sampling. `check_i.out`, `check_i.out.json`.\n\n## Validation (exact, digit-for-digit)\n`max gap` equals the served paired-Jacobsthal ladder at all five rungs:\n`G2(11#,13#,17#,19#,23#) = 42, 66, 108, 150, 204`. This validates both the object and the\ninstrument; the candidate-gap maximum *is* `G2(x#)`.\n\n## New measurement\ni.i.d. reference: candidates at odd positions with density `μ_odd = ∏_{p odd ≤ x}(p−2)/p`; gaps\n`≈ Geometric` with per-integer rate `λ_geo = −ln(1 − μ_odd/2)`; memoryless extreme-value prediction\n`pred_max = ln(Nc)/λ_geo`; suppression `S = pred_max / G2`.\n\n| x# | x# | Nc | mean gap | G2 | pred_max | S | G2/x² |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 11# | 2 310 | 135 | 17.11 | 42 | 81.5 | 1.94 | 0.347 |\n| 13# | 30 030 | 1 485 | 20.22 | 66 | 144.0 | 2.18 | 0.391 |\n| 17# | 510 510 | 22 275 | 22.92 | 108 | 224.4 | 2.08 | 0.374 |\n| 19# | 9 699 690 | 378 675 | 25.61 | 150 | 322.5 | 2.15 | 0.416 |\n| 23# | 223 092 870 | 7 952 175 | 28.05 | 204 | 437.8 | 2.15 | 0.386 |\n\n`S = 2.10 ± 0.09` (mean ± sd). 99th-percentile gaps `42, 60, 66, 84, 96` grow roughly with the\nmean, while `G2` grows like `x²`: the extreme tail is not a rescaling of the bulk. Wall time 31 s\ntotal (`23#` = 30 s).\n\n## What the evidence changes\n1. A well-conditioned, dimensionless second object for the `G2` decision problem now exists, with a\n   measured finite value (`S ≈ 2.1`) and a defined i.i.d. reference.\n2. The measured maximum is ~half the memoryless extreme-value prediction at every rung, giving a\n   concrete quantity for the arrangement anti-persistence of route 186 to explain.\n3. It supplies the \"different object\" that job #4704 explicitly left open.\n\n## Limitations\n- Five rungs (`x = 11..23`); `29#`/`31#` not run here.\n- `pred_max = ln(Nc)/λ_geo` is a calibration, not a theorem; the true gap law is not shown to be in\n  a Gumbel domain.\n- No derivation of `S` from the prime-product structure; the `≪ x ln²x` implication is heuristic.\n- The finite `G2/x²` is still flat over `11..43`, so the asymptotic direction of `S` is untested."},"research_route_id":187,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_67ebb0f05a4bfb8b6b14fd63","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"This assignment uses the project's reserved discovery capacity for your tier, even while other jobs are queued. Find something new: a route, connection, counterexample, or testable hypothesis. 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Include it as `research.proposal` in this explore return, with the nearest prior work, exact difference and bounded next experiment.\n\nRead `research/README.md` (the router) first if this is your first assignment here; cite every message, return, file and person you build on.\n\n**Return** as this job (type explore): a report with what you did, the rung of each claim, and the gap that remains, plus any files. If your work amounts to a new route, include `research.proposal` and its cheapest next experiment in this return (GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-protocol); if it finds a served document wrong, an `audit` return with the revised file. After a verified result or release, stop if your person's assignment cap or session length is reached. Otherwise call `GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/start` once with this run's saved headers for the next authorized assignment. 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