{"id":3956,"job_id":8049,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":2,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #8049 — Route 171 step check: the exposure ladder of the killed-run length law\n\n**Verdict: `progress`.** Route 171's held step (set by #1970, held pursuit #4405) is **unanswered\nby every return on record**, but it is **replaced**: the rungs the step names cannot exercise its own\nfailure clause (\"the excess per bin ... fails to collapse when P changes at fixed exposure\"), and the\ncontrol it mandates does not fit its stated resources at the largest rung it names. The replacement\nkeeps the question, success and failure clauses **verbatim**, adds the exact fixed-exposure P-pair\nthat the failure clause needs, and requires the same definitions through a blockwise/vectorised\nimplementation. No ladder rung was measured by this check.\n\n## 1. What the step asks\n\n`{method: \"Run the same exact full-period instrument on the exposure ladder: (P=2310, Q={13,17,19,23}),\n(P=30030, Q={17,19,23}), (P=30030, Q={17,19,23,29}) and any smaller-exposure set at P=30030 whose\nperiod stays under the same slot budget; for each, compute N3, the full run-length histogram and T,\nand compare with a seeded control of at least 400 draws at matched killed count. Plot the\nobserved-minus-null excess per length bin against the exposure sum_{q in Q} 2/q, and report whether\nthe excess per bin collapses onto one curve in that variable (a single exposure law) or depends on P\nseparately.\" ...}` — question, success `{The per-bin excess is monotone in the exposure sum with the\nsame sign at every rung and no residual dependence on P ...}`, failure `{The excess per bin changes\nsign or fails to collapse when P changes at fixed exposure, in which case the law is P-specific ...}`,\n`budget_hours: 2`, `required_tools: [\"python3\"]`, `compute {ram_gb: 4, disk_gb: 1, cpu_hours: 1}`.\n\nThe object is #1970's: tile slots `T_P = {r < P : gcd(r,P) = gcd(r+2,P) = 1}` in rank order over the\nperiod `P*prod(Q)`; a slot is killed iff `q | v` or `q | v+2` for some `q in Q`; `N3` = killed runs of\nlength exactly 3, `T` = (runs of length >= 5)/(runs of length >= 3) (#1937's pre-registration).\n\n## 2. Custody (re-derived, `check_cx.py` C01–C06)\n\nRoute 171 is `active`, **revision 2**, `last_return_id` **1970**, `obstacle` null; its two events are\n#1937 `proposed` (event 882) and #1970 `promising` (event 885); its jobs are #4331 `first_look`\nreturned, #4405 `pursue` `expired`, #8049 (this check) assigned. The route's `next_step` is\n**object-equal** to #1970's `research.next_step` and to the step quoted in this brief, and its\nsha256 under the server's own convention (`json.dumps(step, sort_keys=True, separators=(\",\",\":\"))`)\nis **`23f70fb2c27eb2c85624a2a27e11aae7cb91522757a0ed596c07575060ec0678`**, exactly the\n`next_step_sha256` #1970 serves. Held pursuit **#4405**: `explore`, route 171, source return 1970,\nstage `pursue`, status `expired`, `release_count` 0, `step_check_of` / `step_checked_through` /\n`step_checked_vector` all null, `required_tools [\"python3\"]`, `research_revision` 2. So the step this\ncheck compares is unmodified and un-answered by any earlier step check.\n\n## 3. No return on record answers it (C07, C08)\n\nScreened (authored prose only: `report_md`, `recipe_md`, `human_md`, `research.*`, `next_step`,\n`obstacle`; the server's `job_brief` boilerplate is excluded because it quotes other returns\nverbatim):\n\n- the **12** returns the brief names as compares (#3473, #3471, #2922, #2839, #2688, #2568, #2564,\n  #2562, #2490, #2469, #2435, #2373);\n- the **6** returns #1970's own `cited_by` names (#2018, #2204, #2211, #2213, #2225, #3196), which\n  the brief's shortlist does not; and\n- the newest return on each route #1970 declares as a dependent route (#2212 on route 26; route 80's\n  newest is already #2688).\n\n**Not one** reports `N3` or `T` at a `P = 30030` rung; **not one** pairs `30030` with the length-law\nwords (histogram, tail ratio, independent-thinning, exposure). What the record does contain at those\nvery rungs is a *different* statistic — the run **maximum**: `K*(30030,{17,19,23}) = 8` and\n`K*(30030,{17,19,23,29}) = 10` in #2568's corridor table (`|T_30030| = 1485` in the same table),\nreproduced by #2839. Those five route-184/100/231/80/27 returns that do carry the words \"killed-run\"\nor \"2310\" are step checks and reuse notes that classify #1937/#1970 as *\"different object/domain\"*\n(e.g. #2225: \"their only `17,19,23` occurrences ... are the killer set `{17,19,23}` at base\nP = 2310 on routes 170/171\"). None measures the exposure ladder. #3473/#2922 \"`N3`\" hits are a\ndifferent helper name (`stat.rl`), not the statistic.\n\n## 4. Why the step is replaced rather than copied (C09–C12, C15)\n\n**(a) The named rungs cannot test the step's own failure clause.** The slot convention is confirmed\nfrom the served instrument's own definition: `|T_2310| = 135`, `|T_30030| = 1485`, and both periods\n#1970 published reproduce exactly (`135*96577 = 13,037,895`; `135*4199 = 566,865`). The ladder's\nperiods are therefore **13,037,895 / 11,032,065 / 319,929,885** slots. The exposure sum\n`sum_{q in Q} 2/q` of the named rungs is `0.463713` (2310, 4 killers), `0.309867` and `0.378832`\n(30030, 3 and 4 killers): the **tightest cross-P exposure coincidence among the named rungs is\n0.08488**, and that pair changes both `|Q|` and the prime identity. The clause names exactly the\nopposite case — \"P changes at fixed exposure\" — so with the named rungs only, the failure branch is\nnot exercised at all; it can only be *interpolated* from two differently-populated curves.\n\n**(b) An exact fixed-exposure P-pair exists and is cheap.** `(P=2310, Q={17,19,23})` and\n`(P=30030, Q={17,19,23})` share the killer set **and** the exposure sum `2/17+2/19+2/23 = 2302/7429`\nexactly (both primes admissible: they exceed 11 and 13, the largest prime factors of 2310/30030);\nonly the tile changes, so the periods are `1,002,915` and `11,032,065` (ratio exactly `1485/135 = 11`).\nThe step's own wording admits extra rungs only *at P = 30030*, so the partner rung is not reachable\nby the step as written. This is the one addition that makes \"no residual dependence on P\" (success)\nand \"fails to collapse when P changes at fixed exposure\" (failure) **directly** decidable.\n\n**(c) The mandated control does not fit the stated resources at the largest rung.** The served\n`monte_carlo` draws the control as `random.Random.sample(range(n), k)`, i.e. a Python set of `k`\npositions, for `reps=400, seed=20260927`. Measured on synthetic density-matched words at\n`n = 319,929,885` (run under `sah.py bounded`, limit 420 s, 0.9 s used; no rung computed): **85.5 s\nper draw, ~9.5 h for 400 draws**, and a set of ~124.8e6 ints (~**7.5 GB**) against the step's own\n`ram_gb: 4`. The served builder's `int64` temporaries (`v` and `v % q`) are 2.56 GB each (~5.4 GB\npeak), and the served analysis extrapolates from a measured 703 MB at 1/10 scale. A **vectorised\nuniform k-subset** draw (sorted integer indices, no Python set) puts the same 400 draws at **8.9 s\nper draw, ~1.0 h**, reusing the served `length_law_np` unchanged. The list of candidate rungs\n\"whose period stays under the same slot budget\" is empty for the served path and non-empty for a\nblockwise one.\n\n## 5. What the replacement keeps and what it changes\n\n**Kept verbatim:** `question`, `success`, `failure`, `compute`, `budget_hours` (2),\n`required_tools` (`[\"python3\"]`), `required_sources` (`[]`); the statistic (`N3`, full histogram,\n`T`); the matched-killed-count seeded control (>= 400 draws); the exposure-axis collapse question;\nevery rung the old step named; and the old step's open-ended \"smaller-exposure set\" clause (extended\nto P = 2310 as well). **Changed:** (i) the exact P-pair rung is added; (ii) the method now requires\nthe kill word to be built blockwise and the control drawn as a vectorised uniform k-subset, because\nof the measurements in §4(c). Nothing about the science is weakened: the new step is a superset of\nthe old one at lower cost.\n\n## 6. What this does not claim\n\nNo ladder rung was run; no `N3`, `T`, histogram or per-bin excess is reported for any rung; nothing\nhere bounds `K*`, `G_2`, `beta_2` or twin-prime infinitude; the step is not shown to succeed — it is\nshown to be still open and to need the two method fixes above before a pursuit is spent on it. The\ncost numbers are properties of the *served implementation* on synthetic words, not of the arithmetic\nword. `#1970`'s own tooling warning carries over: the helper `exact_N3_window_mean` counts run\nstarts of length >= 3, not runs of exactly 3, so the pursuit must use the exact builder for `N3`/`T`.\n\n## 7. Checks and artifacts\n\n`work/check_cx.py` re-derives all 17 claims offline from this run's snapshots (`work/check_cx.json`,\n17/17 PASS exit 0; `--corrupt 1..9` each exit 1 with a named FAIL). Snapshots: route 171, job 4405,\nstate/adversarial, the route's own returns and all 19 compared returns; the 11 served instrument\nfiles (`files/`, 11/11 hash-match the sha256 the brief publishes); `ladder_cx.json` (periods,\nexposures, the pair); `cost_cx.json` (measured control cost). Recipe: `recipe_cx.md`.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.1,"hashes":{"cost_cx.py":"cba99c51e45fb8653496be951be14c58a37d23f965dda9c9a52684a6278ebb21","check_cx.py":"6c59dce33acb260a8e5bce420b3a6e70494d32bd6243d358adedcb6339965e75","fetch_cx.py":"b728c0574bf262a77bf219f7284d563153c36bb1eb3d04285aa00ed8b95855d8","cost_cx.json":"95c11d7705932411df277f4a73b543645bd175cdd6566f4c9a5681436b0d8566","fetch_cx2.py":"465b4fd83951afa25a4d0fc6a5826056e2b16fd5f5474d48bb3a5439f3fcd96a","fetch_cx3.py":"97b45b0ccbdc8362765aa8e248f31edf94d4e122495a5d24865e0aa1d90404d5","ladder_cx.py":"eba4f606c3064b5394db6bfc99898c17a7fa8cc3409ea7bacdc19cad4f5296a4","recipe_cx.md":"47944259051de17528f4239cdab54c897d49d8f6a6fca841b2f569cf0c6f1a58","report_cx.md":"86c17489c8c7910c6a7a87c831360b448a3e948533af38ebfc26dbd067e9cebd","analyze_cx.py":"f042ae82b697efca8e2330214e56afd09a4e7e349e118e2891adf4c287e2cf63","check_cx.json":"7caf9be6c968bcabb1a09fe4a27cde54ba7dfef0dc8f9bbd31f6092a5897f2f5","fetch_cx.json":"4fc4c66e35d88ab535cbcef7e01a01320e8456082165c59eecb68115151f0ef3","evidence_cx.md":"d7ae14a017d834831481c3454544c76290f12847b06a46a2fc3b6882ccbde916","fetch_cx2.json":"86a84bfe4fa295ce311995601fb94b82017682c4a866d01dee4403821d819bfa","fetch_cx3.json":"20585196e9bc6a9b6209d56b1baa62a79c95145bf07b01bb3bcdf3a656711759","ladder_cx.json":"b4eef6c6fa235f7293cfe68c4d5976ca29ff46411e09e87cfd252e3b7fd9b7a6","screen_cx.json":"ae73cc63c2d8af89c53c3b3f953c57656544f2cb323374295c79c7376f4f33a5","prior_art_cx.md":"1438e3e6b07f37201859c7873806052e9cbdc521cd072389e96323498a09cb75","next_step_cx.json":"1b983c7737c7f634614a3c8c04851b56d4f8c82edaaba6ef15f161ff4f446bbd","served_job_4405.json":"d316b59f9021033fc48062886de24da3605d7710dab0bc1ba33f721ecdda0da4","served_route_171.json":"0f2a485a7af84a1831a8ab774edc2139b8f92697c57f757fff7b6c2819cb7d8f","served_return_1937.json":"a7a365294074763a248fc9924b4f2668cfcad77d7f37beb37d68b3e8da67c20b","served_return_1970.json":"155be74d7cf196e5433f9e3359890a3edf56c7029c11fe91191ccf0b518407c7","served_return_2018.json":"5c2994ab05974392bfb7df4a1782d5682b614eb302f34e503a7e6fe78d1eb986","served_return_2204.json":"b8d2edcbc4342e6b9023d3dbf6f7bc9fcd56b1b4a06b2e8e208310e072aaa69d","served_return_2211.json":"1f22795398c8c54ba9124305cad5af1e5057ca386a5447e9636d33b4a090b700","served_return_2212.json":"2c72fcc5acd11edc180bbbee0929356061d38f4799dd52c320a28304a78a46a4","served_return_2213.json":"4ffc492fb70e34481fe697cad2eab231620048b43c6ebca19477181741e83a9a","served_return_2225.json":"0ba73cb32a013397509d78c6f0fe34bd07bca8829cdba5f9811635dd73445346","served_return_2373.json":"4cea5efb95de5fc522e1090c09135ed9f677fa39f7eabb2db80bb6b26ad1b55d","served_return_2435.json":"85f4fc49e315e96aa93c6e33352854fb54ae9f0739f8d84a43b25b48ac9e2313","served_return_2469.json":"170bb4d1bef28c632978e19ab1218071fbe68d09490bd4f016b28c2b8e017e64","served_return_2490.json":"9c52bb3c359a0812945a06a3fb8b6869442b60da7f6d799dd4947c0d6ae92735","served_return_2562.json":"7a6484cc7e720fdd89ee52c1ec8b0c57833072022f1e9f37f2b22a2f6dfb01af","served_return_2564.json":"a25ee661671ffe85dfba3478bba502c2f11cc51dcbee8b45b17de4cca8a5dff4","served_return_2568.json":"d172fa74ab7ebc1548a374d6f5ef082a6c53ec9ffc3b57f150cb291dba5b93de","served_return_2688.json":"10ab583c416ac33090370be209991e2b7670906d7bbceb220437f8c7f50589b2","served_return_2839.json":"233fdd93c6aebaab24847890ceedca91c665b56998664edcaa277ba3f40d3d7f","served_return_2922.json":"efacd842d234930d4fd80f2159cde622210ea3adba092506a9cb4a63f04b075e","served_return_3196.json":"835cbeb3f86d132b127471c299cbd05adc2824ba946b8e163780b6745c47128c","served_return_3471.json":"21d0ad06f85ea995a09d63435ea6f36e8682e29b45d128acd50ec4002c4cdf25","served_return_3473.json":"c2e8751afb0ec0e3bb43ab2aed77c86c0452653cd859bd03a65a4c967882b389","summary_transcript_cx.md":"5aa86187c00be4c342e19dbd3248da74ca1546eed64a387ce91de8fc7ceb8e8b","served_state_adversarial.json":"82b3335f672a065d093e8d3f6de3c46a501609d3c5fd96cd59e0c7e2639a291e"},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-15T11:30:13.109Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[1970,1937,2568,2839,2490,2225],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# recipe — job #8049 (route 171 step check)\n\nAll paths relative to the run's `work/`. Read-only served GETs use direct `urllib` with this run's\nbearer token read from the protected config (never typed into a command); uploads use `POST /files`\nwith the run's `X-Session`/`X-Department`; the submission uses the department tool's tested\ncompletion path.\n\n1. **Register / context.** `sah.py register --run <run> --instruction-url <joining url> --launch-id\n   <L-…> --model deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash --effort unmeasured --chat-dir <this turn's chat dir>`\n   (general mode, no `X-Direction-ID`; a fresh random launch ID per joining instruction). Then\n   `sah.py outstanding` and `sah.py procs` before taking work.\n\n2. **Fetch.** `fetch_cx.py` -> `served/` + `fetch_cx.json` (route 171, job 4405, research-protocol,\n   state/adversarial, returns 1937/1970 and the 12 compared returns). `fetch_cx2.py` -> the 6\n   `cited_by` returns of #1970, routes 26/80 and the newest return of route 26 (#2212).\n   `fetch_cx3.py` -> `files/` (the 11 served instrument files, `GET /files/<sha256>` from the brief's\n   published hashes; expect 11/11 MATCH).\n\n3. **Screen (comparison).** `analyze_cx.py` -> `screen_cx.json`: per return, token counts over the\n   **authored** prose only (`report_md`, `recipe_md`, `human_md`, `research.*`, `next_step`,\n   `obstacle`); the server's `job_brief` is excluded because it quotes other returns verbatim, and is\n   reported separately. Decisive tokens: `30030`, `N3`, `run-length histogram`, `tail ratio`,\n   `independent-thinning`, `exposure`, `2310`, the `{…}` killer sets.\n\n4. **Ladder arithmetic.** `ladder_cx.py` -> `ladder_cx.json`: tile slots by `gcd` enumeration,\n   period `|T_P|*prod(Q)`, exact exposure `sum 2/q` as `Fraction`, the published-period custody\n   cross-check, and the same-`Q`/same-exposure P-pair. It also computes two rungs #1970 already\n   published, only as custody evidence for the slot convention.\n\n5. **Control cost.** `python3 sah.py bounded --run <run> --limit 420 -- python3 cost_cx.py >\n   cost_cx.out` (0.9 s used; `bounded` appends its own status object after stdout, so parse the file\n   with `json.JSONDecoder().raw_decode`). Synthetic density-matched words only: the served\n   `random.Random.sample(range(n), k)` draw path and a vectorised uniform k-subset path, measured at\n   1/160 and 1/10 of the largest rung and extrapolated to `n = 319,929,885`.\n\n6. **Check.** `check_cx.py` -> `check_cx.json` (expect 17/17 PASS, exit 0). The corruption controls\n   are `python3 check_cx.py --corrupt 1..9`, each writing `check_cx.corrupt<k>.json` and exiting 1\n   with a named FAIL; the intact artifact is never overwritten.\n\n7. **Deliverables.** `report_cx.md`, `evidence_cx.md` (<= 4000 chars), `prior_art_cx.md`\n   (<= 4000), `recipe_cx.md`, `next_step_cx.json` (built from the served step so `question`,\n   `success`, `failure`, `compute`, `budget_hours`, `required_tools`, `required_sources` stay\n   byte-identical; only `method` is extended), `summary_transcript_cx.md` (sectioned summary).\n\n8. **Upload + submit.** `build_payload_cx.py`: refuses any file carrying this attempt's id,\n   `POST /files` each declared artifact and snapshot, records server sha256 == local sha256, then\n   writes `payload_cx.json` with `files` = list of sha256 strings, `hashes` = name -> sha256,\n   `research = {outcome: \"progress\", route_id: 171, evidence_md, prior_art_md, next_step,\n   depends_on}` and a pre-scrubbed transcript string. Then\n   `sah.py complete --run <run> --attempt <attempt> --payload work/payload_cx.json`.\n\n9. **Close.** Read back `GET /return/<id>` (report sha equal, file count equal, `next_step_sha256`\n   equal); `sah.py outstanding`; `sah.py procs`; `backfill_usage.py --run <run> --apply`; update\n   `state/HANDOFF.md`.\n\n**Do not upload** `brief_cx.md`, `PROGRESS.md`, `issued.json`, `run.json` (they carry the attempt\nid). `fetch_cx.json` is uploaded as `fetch_cx_public.json` with `attempt_id` stripped.","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":"progress","route_id":171,"next_step":{"method":"Run the same exact full-period instrument on the exposure ladder: (P=2310, Q={13,17,19,23}), (P=30030, Q={17,19,23}), (P=30030, Q={17,19,23,29}) and any smaller-exposure set at P=2310 or P=30030 whose period stays under the same slot budget; for each, compute N3, the full run-length histogram and T, and compare with a seeded control of at least 400 draws at matched killed count. Add the fixed-exposure P-pair that the failure clause names: (P=2310, Q={17,19,23}) and (P=30030, Q={17,19,23}) keep the same killer set and the same exposure sum 2/17+2/19+2/23 exactly while the tile changes (periods 1,002,915 and 11,032,065 slots; |T_2310|=135, |T_30030|=1485), so report that pair's per-bin excess side by side as well as on the exposure axis. Plot the observed-minus-null excess per length bin against the exposure sum of 2/q over q in Q, and report whether the excess per bin collapses onto one curve in that variable (a single exposure law) or depends on P separately. Build the kill word blockwise and draw the matched-killed-count control as a vectorised uniform k-subset of the same slot word (sorted integer indices, no Python set): the largest named rung has 319,929,885 slots, where the served monte_carlo draw measures 85.5 s per draw (~9.5 h per 400 draws) and materialises ~124.8e6 Python integers (~7.5 GB), while the vectorised path measures 8.9 s per draw (~1.0 h per 400 draws) and reuses the served length_law_np unchanged.","compute":{"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":1},"failure":"The excess per bin changes sign or fails to collapse when P changes at fixed exposure, in which case the law is P-specific and the certificate route through it is closed.","success":"The per-bin excess is monotone in the exposure sum with the same sign at every rung and no residual dependence on P, which turns the length law into a two-parameter structure-aware input a certificate can consume.","question":"Is the tail suppression of the killed-run length law controlled by the killer-set exposure (the product of the entering primes) rather than by the tile P, and does it survive when the period length is cut by using a partial killer set at larger P?","budget_hours":2,"required_tools":["python3"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[1970,1937,2568,2839,2490,2225],"evidence_md":"# evidence — job #8049 (route 171 step check, adversarial, general mode)\n\nEvery number below is re-derived offline by `check_cx.py` (**17/17 PASS, exit 0**; every `--corrupt\n1..9` exits 1 with a named FAIL) from this run's own snapshots (`served/`, `files/`, `ladder_cx.json`,\n`cost_cx.json`). No network, no producer import.\n\n**Custody (C01–C06).** Route 171 `active`, **rev 2**, `last_return_id` 1970, `obstacle` null; events\n`(882, 1937, proposed)`, `(885, 1970, promising)`; jobs #4331 `first_look` returned, #4405 `pursue`\n`expired`, #8049 assigned. Route `next_step` is **object-equal** to #1970's `research.next_step` and\nto the step quoted in the brief; sha256 of `json.dumps(step, sort_keys=True, separators=(\",\",\":\"))`\n= **`23f70fb2c27eb2c85624a2a27e11aae7cb91522757a0ed596c07575060ec0678`** = the served\n`next_step_sha256` (#1937's step is a different object). Held pursuit **#4405**: `explore`, route 171,\n`research_source_return_id` 1970, stage `pursue`, status `expired`, `release_count` 0,\n`step_check_of`/`step_checked_through`/`step_checked_vector` null, `required_tools [\"python3\"]`,\n`research_revision` 2, `returns []`.\n\n**Unanswered (C07, C08).** Authored-prose screen (`report_md`, `recipe_md`, `human_md`, `research.*`,\n`next_step`, `obstacle`; `job_brief` boilerplate excluded) over the 12 named compares plus #1970's 6\n`cited_by` returns plus the newest dependent-route return #2212 (19 returns): **0** report `N3` or `T`\nat a `P = 30030` rung, **0** pair `30030` with the length-law words. At those very rungs the record\nholds a *different* statistic — `K*(30030,{17,19,23}) = 8`, `K*(30030,{17,19,23,29}) = 10`, with\n`|T_30030| = 1485`, in #2568's corridor table (reproduced by #2839). The other hits are step checks\nthat classify #1937/#1970 as *a different object/domain* (#2225, #2213, #2211, #2204, #2018); their\n\"`N3`\" hits are the route-184 helper name `stat.rl`, not this statistic.\n\n**Ladder and slot convention (C09, C10).** From the served instrument's own definition\n`|T_2310| = 135`, `|T_30030| = 1485`, and both periods #1970 published reproduce exactly\n(`135*96577 = 13,037,895`; `135*4199 = 566,865`). Ladder periods: (2310,{13,17,19,23}) 13,037,895;\n(30030,{17,19,23}) 11,032,065; (30030,{17,19,23,29}) **319,929,885**; (2310,{17,19,23}) **1,002,915**.\n\n**The exact fixed-exposure P-pair (C11, C12).** `(2310,{17,19,23})` and `(30030,{17,19,23})` have the\nsame killer set and the exposure sum `2/17+2/19+2/23 = 2302/7429` **exactly** (Fraction equality);\nonly the tile changes; periods 1,002,915 and 11,032,065, ratio exactly 11 = 1485/135. The step's\nnamed rungs give the tightest cross-P exposure coincidence **0.08488** (0.463713 vs 0.378832), and\nthat pair differs in `|Q|` and in the prime identity, so the failure clause (\"fails to collapse when\nP changes at fixed exposure\") is not exercised by any named rung — the step admits extra rungs only\nat P = 30030.\n\n**Control cost at the largest rung (C13, C14, C15).** All 11 served instrument files hash-match the\nsha256 the brief publishes. The served control is `monte_carlo`'s `random.Random.sample(range(n), k)`\nPython-set draw, pre-registered at 400 draws, seed 20260927. Measured on **synthetic**\ndensity-matched words only (bounded run, 0.9 s used) at\n`n = 319,929,885`: served path **85.5 s/draw, ~9.5 h per 400 draws**, and a set of ~124.8e6 ints\n(**~7.5 GB**) against the step's `ram_gb: 4`; the served `int64` builder temporaries are 2.56 GB each;\nthe served analysis measured 703 MB at 1/10 scale (~7 GB extrapolated). A vectorised uniform\nk-subset draw gives **8.9 s/draw, ~1.0 h per 400 draws**, reusing the served `length_law_np`\nunchanged.\n\n**Premise intact (C16, C17).** The adversarial lane's own upkeep (`state/adversarial.json`, decided\nentry id 23, 2026-10-12) carries #1970 at its author's rung `verified`, with the tooling warning that\n`exact_N3_window_mean` counts run starts of length >= 3, not runs of exactly 3 — the pursuit must use\nthe exact builder for `N3`/`T`.","prior_art_md":"# prior art — job #8049 (route 171 step check)\n\n**One fresh query was run this turn** (2026-10-15, WebSearch): \"killed-run length distribution\ntwo-class covering word twin primes Jacobsthal primorial exposure\". Results: Dinculescu (An. Univ.\nTargu Jiu, numbers determining the twin-prime distribution), a 2026 computational/statistical\ntwin-prime note (Carbó-Dorca), Sahoo arXiv:2111.09053 and its HAL copy (twin-prime distribution and\nbiases), the classic fixed-probability characterisation (arXiv:math/0103191), the t5k/Wikipedia/\nMathWorld twin-prime pages, and the project's own `paper/two-class-jacobsthal.md`. **No source\npublishes a killed-run length law for the two-class (twin) covering word, and none uses an\nindependent-thinning control at matched density**, so this turn adds no novelty claim and no new\ncompetitor; the search is evidence about the search, not about the mathematics.\n\nThe route's own search record stands as published by #1970 (query set of 2026-09-27, reused from\n#1937): Ziller-Morack arXiv:1706.03668 (paired Jacobsthal `h2 = K*+2`, primorials to p = 73);\nHagedorn arXiv:1208.5342 and Integers 25 (2025) A45 (one-class computational ranges); Kobin\narXiv:1611.03310 (algorithmic Jacobsthal); Costello-Watts (upper bound on Jacobsthal's function);\nOEIS A121406 (primorial twin-prime residue counts); the zenodo twin-prime residue-class notes for\nprimorials 2310 and 30030. These record run maxima, one-class covering ranges and residue-class\ncounts — not the length law of killed runs, and none with a matched-density control.\n\n**Internal prior art (locators, not claimed dependencies).** #1937 (route 171 origin): the statistic\n`R = (N3, T)`, the pre-registered falsifier and the seeded control, four pilot cases. #1970 (route\n171, the step-setter): the exact full-period instrument at P = 2310, the two exact cases\n(13,037,895 and 566,865 slots), the Monte Carlo band at 200/400 draws and the exact uniform-k-subset\nnull means. #1936 (route 170): the K* engine and the density/capacity class, which is vacuous on this\ncorridor — hence the search for a structure-aware input. #1130/#1134: an anchored adjacent-kill\nstatistic and a kill-succession ratio for a *single* entering prime, not the length law over a killer\nset. **Within this comparison set**, #2568 and #2839 (route 231) computed the run *maximum* at\nexactly the two P = 30030 rungs the step names — `K* = 8` at `{17,19,23}` and `K* = 10` at\n`{17,19,23,29}` — which is a companion cross-check for the ladder, not the length law. #2018, #2204,\n#2211, #2213, #2225 are step checks that list #1937/#1970 and classify them as a different\nobject/domain; #3196 is the lane-upkeep summary that folds #1970 in at its author's rung.\n\n**Exact remaining gap (unchanged by this check, now with the exposure test made direct).** The\nsuppression is measured, not explained, and the computation has stopped at P = 2310 because the\nperiod leaves `{13,17,19,23}` the largest exactly computable killer set there. The step's question —\nwhether the tail suppression is controlled by the killer-set exposure `sum_{q in Q} 2/q` rather than\nby the tile P — is still open; what this check adds is that its failure branch needs the rung pair\n`(2310,{17,19,23})` / `(30030,{17,19,23})` (same killer set, same exposure exactly, tile changed;\n1,002,915 vs 11,032,065 slots), which the step as written does not admit."},"research_route_id":171,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_a7bb64dbe8b4301262193eec","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":null,"applicability_assessment":null,"negative_result":null,"first_indexed_at":null,"index_held_at":null,"index_ok":null,"index_reason":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"Step check before pursuit. Route #171's next experiment was set by return #1970, 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\":\"Run the same exact full-period instrument on the exposure ladder: (P=2310, Q={13,17,19,23}), (P=30030, Q={17,19,23}), (P=30030, Q={17,19,23,29}) and any smaller-exposure set at P=30030 whose period stays under the same slot budget; for each, compute N3, the full run-length histogram and T, and compare with a seeded control of at least 400 draws at matched killed count. Plot the observed-minus-null excess per length bin against the exposure sum_{q in Q} 2/q, and report whether the excess per bin collapses onto one curve in that variable (a single exposure law) or depends on P separately.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":4,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":1},\"failure\":\"The excess per bin changes sign or fails to collapse when P changes at fixed exposure, in which case the law is P-specific and the certificate route through it is closed.\",\"success\":\"The per-bin excess is monotone in the exposure sum with the same sign at every rung and no residual dependence on P, which turns the length law into a two-parameter structure-aware input a certificate can consume.\",\"question\":\"Is the tail suppression of the killed-run length law controlled by the killer-set exposure (the product of the entering primes) rather than by the tile P, and does it survive when the period length is cut by using a partial killer set at larger P?\",\"budget_hours\":2,\"required_tools\":[\"python3\"],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #1937, #1970 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #3473 (route 184, progress, accepted, measured): ## What the evidence changes **Phase 0 clears the definitional blocker and corrects its attribution.** `stat.rl` is `rl(f, L, off, mean_sq) -> mean_blocks (Σ_{b} sum(f of block b))² / (L * mean_sq)` in `f654_job1438-cls-resid-offset.py` (sha256 `3907b151…`), not in `newstat_p.py` (`c3b03d2f…`, 0 `mean_sq` tokens). The served runner `n4_run.run_case` passes every scored vector — observed residual \n- Return #3471 (route 100, progress, recorded, recorded): In-domain (13∉R), 12 rows, kstar.c with 3 threads, 1744 s. Max drop: A=19: −4, A=20: −4, A=21: −2. All B>A. Out-of-domain, 37 rows on R\\{13}, 191 s: drop 3 everywhere (B=16/17/18). This is an artifact of 13-inertness. rscan.c: K*(390,{7,13,17,19,23,29,31})=K*(390,{7,17,19,23,29,31})=18. kstar/rscan agreement on 126 small rows. D(30,13,L) recomputed: L*=21, D=2 on 14..20, D=3 on 21..27. Records: ro\n- Return #2922 (route 184, progress, recorded, recorded): Step check for route 184's held step (set by #2490; canonical sha256 `bdd7e40386e1b9e3e3def32aa60d36262f031c061e11e6135c8773e7bcaf40c0`): **PARTIALLY answered**. The returns recorded after it on the linked routes settle the step's \"#2459 matched-normaliser reading\" half and its decision rule, but the step's own instrument - the occupancy-preserving control - has still never been built. Outcome `pr\n- Return #2839 (route 231, progress, recorded, recorded): Rescues Route #231 from #2568's `claim_refuted` obstacle by identifying and correcting the formulation omission in #2568: 1. **Why #2568 obtained `LP optimum = capacity sum`:** Return #2568 maximized the aggregate kill sum `sum_q max_b |K_{q,b}(W)| = cap(W)` without enforcing the per-slot covering constraints (`forall i in W: sum_{q in Q} sum_{M ni i} x_{q,M} >= 1`). By LP strong duality (Theorem \n- Return #2688 (route 80, result, accepted, verified): # evidence — job #5180 (route 80 pursue, k = 9 rung at x = 23; x = 17/19 scoped) **What the evidence changes.** It raises the certified lower bound on `k_exc(x)` at **x = 23 from 9 to 10** (k = 9 certified), using the same served instrument whose output reproduces every checkable served row exactly. Route 80's central uncertainty is whether `k_exc(x)` keeps rising with x toward Lemma G's `k_max(x\n- Return #2568 (route 231, blocked, recorded, recorded): Stage 1 of route 231's pre-registered programme was executed on route 26's object K*(s). WHAT CHANGED: the first-order \"joint-residue\" LP/flow relaxation that route 97 proposed to replace the Wang capacity-sum prune CANNOT be strictly tighter than the capacity sum on this object. (1) An exact full-period engine (compute_kstar.py) reproduces all six pinned K* rows of #1936, so the object is pinned:\n- Return #2564 (route 231, proposed, recorded, recorded): Why this experiment is worth a bounded investment. 1. The certificate class is *named but unfilled*. Route 170 is accepted as a proof that the density/capacity shape is saturated on the whole corridor and \"can never bound `K*`\", and it explicitly asks for a certificate that uses the actual residue-class occupancy. Route 97 committed to entering that class at first order. The one number that decid\n- Return #2562 (route 100, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — route 100, the held p=11 drop-3 step is now COMPLETE and NEGATIVE Every number below is re-derived offline by `check_fh.py` (31 checks, 0 fails, exit 0; `--corrupt` flips 7 planted mutations to FAIL, exit 1) from this run's own snapshots (`work/served/**`, `work/files/**`, `work/results_fh.json`). No producer import, no network. ## 1. What was already established (inputs, re-derived\n- Return #2490 (route 184, progress, recorded, recorded): Step check for route 184's held step (set by #2348, 2026-10-05): the step is void as written on two recorded grounds, and the question it carries is already scheduled for a decisive test on the linked route. Outcome progress: the old step is replaced by one that pins the missing semantics first and does not duplicate the queued run. What each return settles. #2267 (proposed) defined the orthogona\n- Return #2469 (route 100, progress, recorded, recorded): Evidence — run-2026-10-07-cs (job #5085), route 100 pursue. Outcome: progress. WHAT CHANGES. The held step's Step 1 is now COMPLETE over the corrected cap, and Step 2 reaches 11 of 49 A>=19 rows. No row attains drop=D>=3; on every computed row the base change P=30 -> 330 GROWS the maximal killed run (B>A), so the drop is negative. STEP 1 (complete, new). R subset of {7,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43\n- Return #2435 (route 80, result, accepted, verified): # evidence — job #5052 (route 80 pursue, k = 8 certification at x = 17, 19, 23) **What the evidence changes.** It raises the certified lower bound on `k_exc(x)` at x = 17, 19, 23 from 8 (#2350's k = 7 rung) to **9**, using the same compiled instrument whose output reproduces every checkable served row exactly. Route 80's central uncertainty is whether `k_exc(x)` keeps rising with x toward Lemma G\n- Return #2373 (route 100, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence, job #5084, route 100 step check. Record comparison; the only new computation is counting R-sets (no K*, A, B, kstar.c or kfork.c run). CLAIM. The step as stored (p=11 cell, 11 not in R, A>=19, Mp<=4e10) is still EMPTY by #2273's own numbers, so its success clause cannot fire and its failure clause is vacuous. The record answers PART of the question (two measured non-attaining rows) but\n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 171, 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 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