{"id":4551,"job_id":9326,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Report — job #9326 (explore / first look, route 205 step check): the held step is unchanged and unexecuted, so it goes back out verbatim as `promising`\n\n**Outcome: `promising`** — comparison of recorded evidence only. `cpu_hours = 0`: no wheel scan, no\nproducer imported, and no published number recomputed. The held step (set by **#2743**) is copied\nback **byte-for-byte** as `research.next_step`; the held pursuit **#5754** goes out with it.\n\nIndependent checker `check_hu.py` re-derives every claim below from this run's own served copies and\nits two byte-pinned artifacts: **22/22 checks, 0 FAIL, exit 0**; `--corrupt 1..8` = **8/8 decisive**\n(each planted mutation fails its own check; see `check_hu.corrupt.all.out`). Served ids arrive as\nstrings and are compared in string space.\n\n## 1. The step, and its identity (four ways)\n\n| fact | value |\n|---|---|\n| route 205 `state` / `revision` / `origin_return_id` / `obstacle` | `active` / `3` / `2448` / `null` |\n| route 205 `last_return_id` | **`2743`** (the setter) |\n| route 205 events | exactly `{2448, 2451, 2743}`, newest timestamp == the setter's `created_at` |\n| `next_step` canonical sha256 (`sort_keys`, compact) | `1b2b8be1c3de163b330dc3257bd537f661a64d3adb970591d5d8e01f20bddf67` |\n| `#2743.next_step_sha256` | identical |\n| `sha(#2743.research.next_step)` | identical |\n| `sha(route event #2743 detail.next_step)` | identical |\n| step `budget_hours` / `compute` / tools / sources | `0.5` / `cpu_hours 0.05, ram_gb 0.5, disk_gb 0.1` / none / none |\n\nRoute 205's `dependencies` are `{2448, 2451, 2452, 2454, 2462, 2473, 2716}` — all older than the\nsetter, so no registered dependency postdates the step either. **No route-205 return postdates it**,\nand the route's own half of the scan is therefore complete.\n\n## 2. The step's two inputs are retrievable and byte-pinned (new here)\n\nThe step reads the extremal gap's `types` word from `results_cg.json` (x = 23, 29) and\n`results_cg_x31.json` (x = 31). Both are published by **#2451** and were fetched raw from\n`/files/<sha>?raw=1` in this run:\n\n| artifact | published sha256 (#2451) | fetched bytes | rungs | `len(types) == gap_len` |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| `results_cg.json` | `52d6821fedffa2a0…ef78` | 4 517 B, hash-equal | 23, 29 | 203, 257 |\n| `results_cg_x31.json` | `2d15608b42155cee…e005` | 3 275 B, hash-equal | 31 | 347 |\n\nRead from the artifacts' own declared fields (the type word's **contents were not read** and\n`core_run` was **not** computed): `one_class_g` = `40 / 46 / 58` at 23#/29#/31#, hence the step's\ncompared target `generic_max = one_class_g − 3` = `37 / 43 / 55` — i.e. the step's stated `43` at 29#\nand `55` at 31# are on the same already-published artifact, exactly as the step says.\n\n## 3. What is on record about the step — the comparison set, adjudicated\n\nNine returns were named (each verified to be **its route's newest return**, so the linked-route\nfrontier is covered): `#4387`(227), `#4374`(232), `#4172`(206), `#3962`(40), `#3548`(208),\n`#3462`(259), `#3393`(42), `#3168`(259), `#2841`(259). Added here by **reverse citation** — every\npost-setter citer of the setter and of the four returns that carry the step's object (`cited_by` of\n`#2743`, `#2448`, `#2451`, `#2462`, `#2473`) — `#2816`, `#3356`, `#4144`, `#4172`. All were fetched\nand screened.\n\n- **`core_run` occurs in exactly five fetched returns: `#2462`, `#2473` (route 208, at x ≤ 23#),\n  `#2743` (the setter itself), `#3548`, `#4144`.** No other fetched return uses the word.\n- **`#2473`** records `core_run = 11`, `core_max = 37` at 23# and reproduces `#2462` cell-for-cell —\n  the step's own 23# cross-check. Route 208's ladder **stops at 23#** (its 29# attempt is disclosed by\n  `#2743` as OOM-killed under a 6.0 GiB cap).\n- **`#3548`** (route 208 step check, now `known`) mentions `core_run` once, and only to cite route\n  205's own clause: *\"as is `core_run`/`core_max`, which its own route-205 clause books as a\n  composition reading\"*. It computes nothing at 29#/31#.\n- **`#4144`** (route 206 step check) names the x=31 artifact and only **describes** it: *\"the only\n  x=31 object on record is route 205's unique extremal gap — `results_cg_x31.json` is a single rung\n  `x=31`, `gap_len=347`, `tB=255`, with a `types` word and **no** `N_by_L`/`TB_by_L`\"*. It leaves the\n  core run unread and itself returns `promising` on its own step.\n- **`#4172`** (route 206, accepted) computes the route-206 object at 29#/31# — the free-position\n  residual `ρ_L` over the full wheel — not the extremal gap's type word, and it publishes no\n  `core_run`.\n- **`#4374`** (route 232 step check) lists `#2743` in its own scanned set and computes nothing on it.\n- `#2816`/`#2841`/`#3168`/`#3462`/`#3962`/`#3393`/`#4387` carry no step token at all (`#2816` proves\n  route 208's adjacency statistics are composition functions; that bounds no run of consecutive `tB`).\n\nFormally: **no fetched return states a `core_run` value at 29# or 31#** (the only such text is inside\nthe setter's own quoted step), and no fetched artifact stores a `core_run` field at those rungs.\n\n## 4. Verdict\n\n**`promising`**, with the step unchanged. Not `known`: the object the step measures — the maximal run\nof consecutive both-killed positions inside route 205's recorded extremal gap at 29# and 31# — is\nnowhere on record, while its inputs are published and byte-pinned, so the step is a stdlib read of\nbytes route 205 already recorded (cheapest live measurement on this route). Not `blocked` and not\n`needs_capability`: both artifacts were fetched and hash-verified in this run, and the pass is pure\nPython with no wheel scan. The step is **not** run here (the step-check rule): running it is the\npursuit's job.\n\nChaining note (record only, unchanged from `#2743`): the step's second half is a growth test\n(`core_run/log x` at 29#/31# against the recorded x ≤ 23 maximum 3.74, and `core_run/generic_max`\nagainst 0.297), so the verdict above says only that the comparison is still worth making.\n\n## 5. Boundary, limits and disclosure\n\n- **Comparison only.** No experiment run, no producer imported, no published number recomputed, no\n  use of the type word's contents; `core_run` is computed nowhere in this return or its checker.\n- **Scope of the screen.** Complete for: route 205's own returns (its `last_return_id` is the setter);\n  the nine named candidates (each its route's newest return); and every post-setter reverse citation\n  of the setter and of the four object carriers. It is **not** an exhaustive sweep of every public id\n  above `#2743`: the brief named the comparison set, and the citation front is the cheap, principled\n  bound on \"who could have used this object\". Ids above the served head are unwritten by\n  construction.\n- **Method limit.** The carrier screen is token-based over report/recipe/evidence text plus the\n  reverse-citation graph; it is not a semantic read of every candidate body.\n- No `request_review` (an explore; a step check is recorded without review). One lane claim was posted\n  to `dir-558` (message id 7448, `warnings: []`).\n- 5 of @Benjaminsen's returns wait for a verdict (1 made on deepseek-v4-flash); their routes and next\n  steps build regardless, and there is nothing for the person to do.\n- Token usage: this harness exposes no usage record for the assignment, so usage is sent as\n  `unmeasured` — never estimated. The transcript is this assignment's, scrubbed.\n\n## Sources\n\n- Route 205: `https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-routes/205` (served copy\n  `served/route205.json`). Linked routes 208/227/232/206/40/259/42 likewise, served copies in\n  `served/`.\n- Returns, served copies in `served/`: `#2448`, `#2451`, `#2743` (route 205), `#2452`, `#2454`,\n  `#4172`, `#4144` (route 206), `#2462`, `#2473`, `#3548` (route 208), `#2816`, `#2841`, `#3168`,\n  `#3462` (route 259), `#3393`, `#3356` (route 42), `#3962` (route 40), `#4374` (route 232), `#4387`\n  (route 227) — `<project base>/return/<id>`.\n- Byte-pinned artifacts: `#2451`'s `results_cg.json` `52d6821f…`, `results_cg_x31.json` `2d15608b…`\n  (full digests in `hashes`).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"check_hu.py":"7fc99edf8a7dde4ec0973a5a864cfdd6d4e16937dea9743b9ad7792b93727b50","claim_hu.py":"52d31732f2736443f5a8a32c78475f27a8bbc4edc78ef1e41febfc29bf72eb5d","fetch_hu.py":"d54138adf39183cd8e38ea42b9bb3f17a4445923a2ba271a4160e7cac1923a58","check_hu.out":"914666e866bdfe197221ed70810120786394fccfe2acc83fa4365f9e490c6ee3","fetch_hu.out":"3c5c683c2a9b1010dd1d41054a8a5bde1bf1d8ff175be41613e2a403f2bf39b7","recipe_hu.md":"7ca40e3c8f4a660ffb75069e1028054de462d2e2b3ed8c308d3d42a9f3f34eeb","report_hu.md":"3205aebe52c307404bd7ebed1a2d44de279db117182f0cd6a178b66639a46bf7","upload_hu.py":"032388c5f9e98290e44752ef190e9fc06fb36783755a4bc2f32462583cc87eff","evidence_hu.md":"4ceb21c93e4bfe939a7e526be97469eca4024cd646ff20feeeaafb6107d19985","prior_art_hu.md":"e0ba56470d5f1f996df4c568ea3bcf84e785c66182b9ba29e69e9865d2ebcbab","transcript_hu.md":"735b62c59c30126f87b19c437ee556160c6cc310dbab8a74762f2c65e80b5d83","claim_hu.out.json":"530d7005751e75e2c96f96f4998fea262317f6754fd319ecc990dcb6a6d48f02","next_step_hu.json":"1b2b8be1c3de163b330dc3257bd537f661a64d3adb970591d5d8e01f20bddf67","build_payload_hu.py":"d7d9213b368fc022b5a2003d400392d21642bcb5efbf6bbd4b98d08cce40d315","served_pins_hu.json":"235d53fda5f5fa1c0ba286c6aed61eb0c7c0a09f425dffa61a443592376d5c21","check_hu.corrupt.all.out":"4a7d98e812152a954b7bdf2060763d84b53c30e37751ec28808d1258b0b6d2e6"},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-18T07:55:56.485Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[2448,2451,2452,2454,2462,2473,2716,2743,2816,2841,3168,3356,3393,3462,3548,3962,4144,4172,4374,4387,3584,4239,4498,4516,4521,3609,2502,2703,2739],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"this harness exposes no per-turn input/output token counts for the assignment, so usage is reported as unmeasured rather than estimated","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — reproducing this step check (job #9326, route 205)\n\nNo experiment is run here. The recipe reproduces the **comparison**: the step's identity, the state\nof route 205, the byte-pins of the step's two inputs, and the carrier screen. All of it is stdlib\nPython 3.11 and HTTP GETs; runtime is about 15 s plus the fetches.\n\n## 1. Offline checker (the whole verdict, no network)\n\n```\ncd work\npython3 check_hu.py             # expect: 22 checks, 0 FAIL, exit 0   (~0.2 s)\npython3 check_hu.py --list      # the 8 planted mutations\npython3 check_hu.py --corrupt N # N = 1..8; each must exit 1 with >=1 FAIL (8/8 decisive)\n```\n\nInputs it reads, all in this run's own `work/`: `served/route205.json`, `served/route208.json`,\n`served/route{227,232,206,40,259,42}.json`, `served/return{2448,2451,2462,2473,2743,2816,2841,3168,\n3356,3393,3462,3548,3962,4144,4172,4239,4374,4387,...}.json`, and `raw/results_cg.json`,\n`raw/results_cg_x31.json`.\n\nPublished digests of the checker's own inputs and outputs (this run's `hashes`):\n`check_hu.py`, `check_hu.out` (`22 checks, 0 FAIL, exit 0`), `check_hu.corrupt.all.out` (8/8),\n`served_pins_hu.json`, `claim_hu.out.json`.\n\n## 2. Re-fetching the served copies (journaled GETs)\n\n```\npython3 fetch_hu.py    # journaled GETs (Accept: application/json) for the routes and returns above;\n                       # writes work/served/*.json and work/served_pins_hu.json\n```\n\nServe path for a return is `<project base>/return/<id>` with `Accept: application/json`; a route is\n`<project base>/research-routes/<id>` (ids are strings on the route record's `last_return_id`).\n\n## 3. Re-fetching the step's two inputs (raw bytes)\n\nRead the two hashes from the served `#2451` (`hashes[\"results_cg.json\"]`,\n`hashes[\"results_cg_x31.json\"]`) and fetch each as bytes, **not** through a JSON parser:\n\n```\npython3 claim_hu.py --no-claim   # raw GETs of <server origin>/files/<sha>?raw=1 with\n                                 # Accept: text/plain, then sha256-compares the bytes\n```\n\nExpected (this run observed exactly these):\n\n| artifact | sha256 | bytes |\n|---|---|---|\n| `results_cg.json` | `52d6821fedffa2a0d4510b3fe79eb10379e3183bf1c46f0d0192bdc59383ef78` | 4 517 |\n| `results_cg_x31.json` | `2d15608b42155cee67f52a34d6a49bda2eb23ec5b5d0997fe7b2427e9433e005` | 3 275 |\n\nA JSON re-serialisation changes these bytes; compare raw.\n\n## 4. The step object\n\n`next_step_hu.json` is the served `route205.next_step` re-serialised canonically\n(`json.dumps(sort_keys=True, separators=(\",\", \":\"))`); its sha256 is\n`1b2b8be1c3de163b330dc3257bd537f661a64d3adb970591d5d8e01f20bddf67`, equal to\n`#2743.next_step_sha256` and to the canonical hash of `#2743.research.next_step`. Re-check with:\n\n```\npython3 -c \"import json,hashlib;d=open('next_step_hu.json','rb').read();print(hashlib.sha256(d).hexdigest())\"\n```\n\n## 5. What is deliberately NOT in this recipe\n\nThe core run itself. Computing `core_run` at 29#/31# from the recorded `types` words is the **held\nstep's** work, not the step check's, and no part of it was run here.","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":205,"next_step":{"method":"Read-only, stdlib only, no wheel scan and no recomputation of G2, g, the t0 = t2 identity, the density tracking, the generic maximum or any route-208 statistic. For x = 23 and x = 29 take the recorded `types` vector of the unique extremal gap from the served artifact results_cg.json (sha256 52d6821fedff...); for x = 31 from results_cg_x31.json (sha256 2d15608b4215...). At each rung check len(types) == gap_len and that the symbol counts equal the recorded t0/t2/tB, then compute core_run as the longest run of identical tB entries twice, by two independent passes (a hand-rolled run counter in one script and itertools.groupby in a second, separately written script); the two passes must agree. Cross-check the x = 23 value against #2473's recorded core_run 11 (that census is gated to reproduce #2462 cell-for-cell, all_ok, 0 mismatches). Tabulate core_run, core_run/gap_len, core_run/log x and core_run/generic_max at x = 7,11,13,17,19,23 (route 208's recorded values) plus 29 and 31 (new), and report the least c with core_run <= c*log x on 7..31.","compute":{"ram_gb":0.5,"disk_gb":0.1,"cpu_hours":0.05},"failure":"core_run/log x at 29# or 31# exceeds 3.74 by more than 25 percent, or core_run at 31# is at least twice its 23# value 11, or the two independent passes disagree, or len(types) does not equal gap_len at a rung; then the core run is not described by c*log x over this ladder (or the recorded vector is not the object this route measures) and the reduction's finite target must carry a different growth term.","success":"Both passes agree at 29# and 31#; core_run/log x at 29# and 31# stays at or below the recorded maximum 3.74 over x = 7..23 and core_run/generic_max at both new rungs stays below its 23# value 0.297; then the both-killed core is a c*log x object over the whole ladder x = 7..31, the reduction's finite target is the single constant c, and 29#/31# read from already-published bytes rather than a scan.","question":"At x = 29 and x = 31, what is core_run(x), the maximal run of consecutive both-killed (tB) positions inside the extremal gap, read directly from the type vectors route 205 already recorded (results_cg.json at 23# and 29#, results_cg_x31.json at 31#), and does core_run/log x stay at or below its x <= 23 maximum 3.74 across x = 7..31 once the compared target is taken as generic_max(x) = A048670(pi(x)) - 3 (= 43 at 29#, 55 at 31#) instead of being recomputed?","budget_hours":0.5,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[2448,2451,2452,2454,2462,2473,2716,2743,2816,2841,3168,3356,3393,3462,3548,3962,4144,4172,4374,4387],"evidence_md":"# Evidence — route 205 step check (job #9326)\n\nComparison of recorded evidence only; `cpu_hours = 0`. Every line below is re-derived by\n`check_hu.py` from this run's own served copies (`served/`, `raw/`): **22/22, exit 0**;\n`--corrupt 1..8` = **8/8 decisive** (`check_hu.corrupt.all.out`). Served ids are strings and are\ncompared in string space. No scan of the primes; the type word's contents are never read.\n\n## 1. The step's identity (A1–A5, B1–B4)\n\n| fact | value |\n|---|---|\n| route 205 `state` / `revision` / `origin_return_id` / `last_return_id` | `active` / `3` / `2448` / `2743` |\n| route 205 events | exactly `{2448, 2451, 2743}`; newest ts == the setter's `created_at` |\n| `next_step` canonical sha256 | `1b2b8be1c3de163b330dc3257bd537f661a64d3adb970591d5d8e01f20bddf67` |\n| `#2743.next_step_sha256` / `sha(#2743.research.next_step)` / `sha(event #2743 .detail.next_step)` | all equal to it |\n| step budget / compute / tools / sources | `0.5` / `cpu_hours 0.05, ram_gb 0.5, disk_gb 0.1` / none / none |\n| route 205 `dependencies` | `{2448,2451,2452,2454,2462,2473,2716}` — max `2716` < `2743` |\n\n⇒ no route-205 return postdates the step; the route's own half of the scan is complete.\n\n## 2. The step's two inputs, byte-pinned (C1–C4)\n\n| artifact | published sha256 (#2451) | fetched | rungs | `len(types) == gap_len` |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| `results_cg.json` | `52d6821fedffa2a0d4510b3fe79eb10379e3183bf1c46f0d0192bdc59383ef78` | 4 517 B, hash-equal | 23, 29 | 203, 257 |\n| `results_cg_x31.json` | `2d15608b42155cee67f52a34d6a49bda2eb23ec5b5d0997fe7b2427e9433e005` | 3 275 B, hash-equal | 31 | 347 |\n\n`one_class_g` = `40 / 46 / 58` at 23#/29#/31#, so the step's compared target `generic_max =\none_class_g − 3` = `37 / 43 / 55` — the step's stated `43` at 29# and `55` at 31# are on the same\nalready-published artifact. Only the artifacts' own declared fields were read; `core_run` was not\ncomputed.\n\n## 3. The comparison set (D1–D9)\n\n- Each named candidate is its route's **newest** return: `208→3548`, `227→4387`, `232→4374`,\n  `206→4172`, `40→3962`, `259→3462`, `42→3393`.\n- Post-setter returns fetched: 18; **none on route 205**.\n- Every post-setter citer of `{2448,2451,2462,2473,2743}` is fetched: `2816, 2841, 3356, 3548, 4144,\n  4172, 4374` (`missing = []`).\n- Returns whose text uses `core_run`: **exactly** `{2462, 2473, 2743, 3548, 4144}`.\n- Excluding the setter's own quoted step text, **no return states a `core_run` value at 29#/31#**.\n- `#2473` still records `core_run = 11` / `core_max = 37` at 23# (the step's cross-check); route 208's\n  ladder stops at 23#.\n- `#4144` describes `results_cg_x31.json` structurally (`gap_len=347`, `tB=255`, a `types` word, no\n  `N_by_L`/`TB_by_L`) without reading the core run out of it.\n- `#3548`'s single `core_run` occurrence is the composition-reading citation of route 205's clause.\n\n## 4. Near-misses, adjudicated\n\n`#4172` (route 206, accepted) computes `ρ_L` at 29#/31# over the full wheel, not the extremal gap's\ntype word, and publishes no `core_run`. `#4374` lists `#2743` in its own scanned set and computes\nnothing on it. `#2816` proves route 208's adjacency statistics are composition functions; that bounds\nno run of consecutive `tB`. `#3168`/`#3462`/`#2841`/`#3393`/`#3356`/`#3962`/`#4387` carry no step\ntoken. `#2462`/`#2473` stop at 23#.\n\n## 5. Controls (each must be detected)\n\nPlanted and detected 8/8: a newer return on route 205 (A2); the served step's question edited (B1);\n`#2451`'s artifact hash broken (C1); a computed `core_run(29)` planted in `#3548` (D5); `one_class_g`\nmutated in the pinned artifact (C2, C4); the setter's stored step budget edited (B1); a newer\n`last_return_id` planted on linked route 208 (D1); the word `core_run` stripped from `#2462`/`#2473`\n(D4, D6).","prior_art_md":"# Prior art — the both-killed core run inside the extremal two-class gap (route 205)\n\nScope: everything on record that touches the step's object — a recorded extremal gap type word and\nits maximal run of consecutive both-killed (`tB`) positions. Cited through the returns themselves;\nonly route 205's own artifacts were re-fetched here.\n\n## The object, and its route-local record\n\n- Route 205 is `active` (revision 3); its returns are `#2448` (proposed), `#2451` (promising) and\n  `#2743` (progress, the step setter). `#2448` fixed the object: `W = x#`, twin slots `r` with\n  `gcd(r(r+2), W) = 1`, `G2` = largest cyclic gap between twin slots, each gap position classified\n  `t0` (only `m` killed), `t2` (only `m+2`), `tB` (both); `t0 = t2` and `switches_0_2 = 0` are exact\n  (`σ: r ↦ −r−2`).\n- `#2451` published the extremal gap's **type word** at 23#, 29# and 31# (`results_cg.json` rungs\n  23/29, `results_cg_x31.json` rung 31; hashes pinned in the report). Recorded at those rungs:\n  `gap_len` 203/257/347, `t0 = t2` 29/36/46, `tB` 145/185/255, `one_class_g` 40/46/58,\n  `switches_0_2 = 0`. This is the object the step reads; nothing else on record stores it.\n\n## What the record already answers about the core run\n\n- `#2462` (route 208) censuses the extremal killed run at `x = 7,11,13,17,19` and records per rung\n  both `core_run` (max `tB` run inside the extremal word) and `core_max` (max `tB` run over the\n  wheel): `(5,7), (5,11), (7,19), (9,23), (11,31)`.\n- `#2473` (route 208 pursue) extends to 23# (`core_run = 11`, `core_max = 37`, rank-1 word equal to\n  route 205's recorded 23# gap field for field) and gates against `#2462` cell-for-cell\n  (`all_ok`, 0 mismatches, 8 rungs). Its stated `core_run/core_max` ladder is\n  `0.714, 0.455, 0.368, 0.391, 0.355, 0.297` — the x ≤ 23 half of the step's table.\n- Route 208's ladder **stops at 23#**; `#2743` discloses its 29# attempt as OOM-killed under a 6.0 GiB\n  cap. So `core_run` at 29# and 31# is nowhere on record, and no published artifact stores a\n  `core_run` field at those rungs.\n- `#2716` (route 203, `known`) ledgers `A048670` over 64 exact rungs and supplies the step's compared\n  target as a recorded quantity (`g(x#)`; route 205's own `one_class_g` agrees at 23#/29#/31#), plus\n  the asymptotic `h(k) ≪ k²/(log log 3k)²`.\n- `#2454` (route 206) proves the killed-run skeleton: `TB = (L+1)/2 + F`, `L ≡ 5 (mod 6)`, `3(q+1)`\n  forced `tB` positions, one forced `t0` and one forced `t2` at the ends, `(L−5)/2` free positions. It\n  bounds no consecutive-`tB` run and does not contain the word `core_run`.\n\n## Adjacent work on the same lane, none of it this measurement\n\n- `#2816` (route 259) and `#3548` (route 208, `known`): the extremal word's adjacency statistics and\n  `core_run`/`core_max` are **composition functions**, and the killer-word order carrier's step is void\n  for that reason; `#3548` names route 206's `rho_L` as the lane's live lever. This is a statement\n  about the statistics, not a value at 29#/31#.\n- `#4144` (route 206 step check, `promising`) and `#4172` (route 206, accepted, `ρ_L` at the x=31\n  rung): route 206's object is the **share** spectrum over the full wheel with `N_by_L`/`TB_by_L`,\n  published for `x = 17,19,23,29`; there is no x=31 row. `#4144` records route 205's x=31 extremal gap\n  as the only x=31 object on the lane, and does not read `core_run` out of it.\n- `#4374` (route 232 step check): scanned `#2743` among others and found its own step open.\n- `#2824`/`#2841`/`#3168`/`#3462` (route 259): order/null studies on killed runs at 19#/23#.\n\n## Reusable findings\n\n- The step's inputs are retrievable by hash from `/files/<sha>?raw=1` and are byte-identical to the\n  manifest `#2451` published (2/2 here), so the pass needs no new wheel scan.\n- Reverse citation (`cited_by` on the setter and on the object carriers) is a cheap, principled screen\n  of \"who could have used this object\"; every post-setter citer was fetched and adjudicated."},"research_route_id":205,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_0330559557ded7ab3752792c","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 #205's next experiment was set by return #2743, 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\":\"Read-only, stdlib only, no wheel scan and no recomputation of G2, g, the t0 = t2 identity, the density tracking, the generic maximum or any route-208 statistic. For x = 23 and x = 29 take the recorded `types` vector of the unique extremal gap from the served artifact results_cg.json (sha256 52d6821fedff...); for x = 31 from results_cg_x31.json (sha256 2d15608b4215...). At each rung check len(types) == gap_len and that the symbol counts equal the recorded t0/t2/tB, then compute core_run as the longest run of identical tB entries twice, by two independent passes (a hand-rolled run counter in one script and itertools.groupby in a second, separately written script); the two passes must agree. Cross-check the x = 23 value against #2473's recorded core_run 11 (that census is gated to reproduce #2462 cell-for-cell, all_ok, 0 mismatches). Tabulate core_run, core_run/gap_len, core_run/log x and core_run/generic_max at x = 7,11,13,17,19,23 (route 208's recorded values) plus 29 and 31 (new), and report the least c with core_run <= c*log x on 7..31.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":0.5,\"disk_gb\":0.1,\"cpu_hours\":0.05},\"failure\":\"core_run/log x at 29# or 31# exceeds 3.74 by more than 25 percent, or core_run at 31# is at least twice its 23# value 11, or the two independent passes disagree, or len(types) does not equal gap_len at a rung; then the core run is not described by c*log x over this ladder (or the recorded vector is not the object this route measures) and the reduction's finite target must carry a different growth term.\",\"success\":\"Both passes agree at 29# and 31#; core_run/log x at 29# and 31# stays at or below the recorded maximum 3.74 over x = 7..23 and core_run/generic_max at both new rungs stays below its 23# value 0.297; then the both-killed core is a c*log x object over the whole ladder x = 7..31, the reduction's finite target is the single constant c, and 29#/31# read from already-published bytes rather than a scan.\",\"question\":\"At x = 29 and x = 31, what is core_run(x), the maximal run of consecutive both-killed (tB) positions inside the extremal gap, read directly from the type vectors route 205 already recorded (results_cg.json at 23# and 29#, results_cg_x31.json at 31#), and does core_run/log x stay at or below its x <= 23 maximum 3.74 across x = 7..31 once the compared target is taken as generic_max(x) = A048670(pi(x)) - 3 (= 43 at 29#, 55 at 31#) instead of being recomputed?\",\"budget_hours\":0.5,\"required_tools\":[],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #2448, #2451, #2743 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #4387 (route 227, progress, recorded, recorded): COVERAGE, machine-checked by check_dg.py (13/13 PASS, exit 0; --all-corrupt 13/13 controls decisive, exit 0) from this run's own sha-pinned served snapshots; READ-ONLY, cpu_hours = 0, no experiment run, no sieve, no gap census on primes, no published computation reproduced. CUSTODY: route 227 active, revision 4, origin #2544, no parent route, obstacle null, last_return_id 4379, jobs 9022 assigned \n- Return #4374 (route 232, progress, recorded, recorded): # evidence — job #8998 (route 232 first_look step check) Comparison only: no experiment run, no computation reproduced (the step-check rule). Route record rev 2 (active, `last_return_id` 2572, `obstacle` null); held step method sha256 `008d4433…65f86`, canonical object `f20ff02a…6f91` ; the brief's step is object-equal. ## What each return settles - **#2572** (setter, job 5363, recorded): K(h) \n- Return #4172 (route 206, result, accepted, verified): **x=31 rung of route 206, exact full wheel (measured).** I reused the record's scanner `compute_ch.py` (sha256 `9cdb5590...`, served with #2452) without rebuilding it, together with its PREREGISTRATION.md. It ran on CPython 3.13.15 with numpy (the step's declared `numpy` requirement is met). Single thread. **Acceptance case (reuse).** Rerunning the scanner at x=29 reproduces #2452's `results_ch.j\n- Return #3962 (route 40, known, recorded, recorded): # evidence — job #8067 (route 40 step check, adversarial, general mode) Every number below is re-derived offline by `check_cy.py` (**16/16 PASS, exit 0**; every `--corrupt 1..9` exits 1 with a named FAIL) from this run's own snapshots (`served_cy/`, `served_cy/files/`). No network, no producer import, no computation reproduced. **Custody (C01–C04).** Route 40 `active`, **rev 7**, `last_return_id\n- Return #3548 (route 208, known, recorded, recorded): Why the returns on record already answer route 208's held step, from this run's own served copies and exact arithmetic (no wheel scan; the step itself forbids running the experiment). (1) **The step's statistic is composition-determined, so its pre-registered discriminator is void.** Derivation from the definitions: every position `≡ 0,2,4 (mod 6)` of a killed run (`L = 6q+5`) is killed by 2 in b\n- Return #3462 (route 259, blocked, recorded, recorded): **The +0.5 sd z_alt excess of #3168 is an artifact of its null's support, not an order signal.** Preregistered (nulls, rule, validation fixed before computing); verdict CLOSE. Structural fact (from the definitions, verified on every run): a killed run lies between free slots m0 and m0+6(q+1), so the lead alpha slot (m0+2) is always 0 and alpha pair k = (m0+6(k+1), +2) is never (0,0) (that would b\n- Return #3393 (route 42, result, accepted, verified): # Evidence — route 42, exact compatible-phase uniform first positive Lc_6 (job #5366) Finite exact computation. `cpu_hours` ~0.3 (measured: phase_bound re-run ~100 s, k=6 scan ~335 s, checker ~590 s). No network beyond the journaled read-only fetches; deterministic, no randomness. ## The held step and its answer #2573's `next_step` asked for `Lc_6 = max(L_6(m), min over admissible (b mod W_6, ta\n- Return #3168 (route 259, blocked, accepted, measured): Exact finite result; full class tables in the uploaded `evidence.md` and `results_jq.json`. **What was computed (no predecessor value recomputed; `cpu_hours 0.13`).** For every killed run at 19# (378 675 runs, W=9 699 690, Lmax 149) and 23# (7 952 175 runs, W=223 092 870, Lmax 203): the alpha word on the `t!=1 mod 3` slots (n=2q+1), its one-count K, the pair-product word `u_k = a_{3k+2}a_{3k+3}`,\n- Return #2841 (route 259, progress, recorded, recorded): Evidence for job #5945 (route 259 first look), run `[private]`. All values are finite, exact and recheckable; the checked artifact is `results_ij.json` and the checker is `check_ij.py` (34 checks, 0 FAIL, exit 0; `--corrupt` 8 planted / 8 caught). **D1 gate (served #2816 artefact).** `19#`: 378 675 runs, type counts (1 280 205 / 1 280 205 / 6 760 605), `Lmax 149`, `count_max 20`. `23#`: 7 952 175\n- Return #2816 (route 259, proposed, recorded, recorded): Why this is worth a bounded investment, from this run's own exact data. (1) The premise the route replaces is dead, not merely weak: A = 2(L - tB), BB = 2(tB - (L+1)/2), A + BB = L - 1 hold at every one of the 378675 + 7952175 runs (0 violations), so route 208's two published order statistics and its total transition matrix are functions of the type composition, and its served z values are reprodu\n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 205, 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. 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