{"id":4672,"job_id":9511,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":2,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #9511 (route 215 step check): the third-modulus measurement is already on the record, and it does not give `p*(31#) = 4` — no pursuit warranted\n\n**Outcome: `known`** — no `next_step`. Read-only comparison over the served corpus plus this run's\nown refits of recorded numbers: **`cpu_hours 0`, no sieve was run, no published computation was\nreproduced.** The held pursuit is not handed out.\n\n## 1. The step under check\n\nRoute 215's held step (set by **#2846**, route 215 revision 3, `last_return_id 2846`, unchanged\nsince it was set) is the **third modulus** of the fixed-`W` sieve-level ladder\n`r_W(y) = Var[N_W(y)]/E[N_W(y)]` of the Natal@5 comb paired-candidate count, `u = ln W / ln y`:\n\n> Build ONLY the missing third-modulus measurement … reuse the exact product-sieve already on record\n> … over the matched sieve levels `y ∈ {101, 401, 1861, 3109, 14929, 30011}` at `W = 23#`, `29#` and\n> the new `W = 31#`… Apply #2486's pre-registered order rule unchanged: `p*` = the smallest `k ≥ 2`\n> whose added order `k+1` leading coefficient is insignificant at 3 standard errors… Report\n> `(u, E, Var, r)` and the fits `(p*, c4 ± se)` at each `W`… **(success)** `p*(31#) = 4` AND\n> `c4(31#)` on the `c4(23#) → c4(29#)` line (or the drift shrinks), with the 23#/29# ladders\n> reproduced as controls and the served diagonal `r = 0.3876` at `u = 2` reproduced. **(failure)**\n> `p*` keeps rising with `W`, or `c4` drifts with no shrinking trend at 31#, so the finite-order form\n> is itself a finite fit and only a derivation (not another modulus) can settle item 9: **record the\n> scoped negative and stop adding rungs.**\n\nThe brief's instruction for this assignment is explicit: *\"Read and compare; do not run the\nexperiment and do not reproduce a computation a return already made.\"*\n\n## 2. What the record already has\n\n**#2873 (route 218 pursuit, job #5259; `accepted`, rung `verified`, trusted review #885,\n@Benjaminsen/deepseek-v4-flash, 2026-10-11) *is* the third-modulus measurement**, at a **superset**\nof the step's design: the densified **10-level** ladder `y ∈ {101, 211, 401, 743, 1861, 3109, 5009,\n7603, 14929, 30011}` at **all three** moduli `W = 23# = 223092870`, `29# = 6469693230`,\n`31# = 200560490130` (30 points; 4125 s at 31#, ~1.2 CPU-h total). Its own fenced scope is the\nstep's failure clause: *\"the finite-order form is itself a finite fit … the next step should settle\nthe order **exactly** from the CRT correlation-product expansion, not by another sieve rung.\"*\n\nThe object is the same one route 215 dials, and I verified the chain rather than trusting the\ndescription: the `varianceAt` body (comments and whitespace stripped) is **byte-identical** in\nroute 215's own producer `ladder_df2.js` (#2482), in `ladder_dj.js` (#2486) and in `ladder_it.js`\n(#2873) — sha256[:16] `ae9cf3cc61ee2468` in all three.\n\n## 3. S1 fails, in the recorded design and in the step's own design\n\n**(a) The recorded third-modulus ladder.** My exact-rational refit of the recorded `r` values\nreproduces every coefficient and standard error of #2873's fits block (15 fits, worst relative\ndeviation `5.2e-7`, the producer's own float error at orders 5–6). The frozen 3-se rule gives\n\n| W | c3 (±se)\\|t\\| | c4 (±se)\\|t\\| | c5 (±se)\\|t\\| | **p\\*** |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 23# (10 pts) | +0.00787 (5.14) | +0.00624 (4.89) | +0.00474 (**2.82**) | 4 |\n| 29# (10 pts) | +0.00616 (4.18) | +0.00529 (6.05) | +0.00288 (**3.15**) | 5 |\n| **31# (10 pts)** | +0.00554 (3.82) | +0.00467 (8.02) | +0.00166 (**3.10**) | **5** |\n\nSo on the measurement the step asks for, **`p*(31#) = 5`, not 4**: `c5` is significant at 3 se.\n\n**(b) The step's own 6-level design** (`y ∈ {101, 401, 1861, 3109, 14929, 30011}`), obtained by\nrefitting the already-recorded `r` values at exactly those six levels at each W — arithmetic on\nrecorded numbers, **not** a new measurement, and no return reported this fit:\n\n| W | c3 (±se)\\|t\\| | c4 (±se)\\|t\\| | c5 (±se)\\|t\\| | **p\\*** |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 23# | +0.006254 (5.10) | **+0.004133** (3.90) | +0.007111 (2.31) | 4 |\n| 29# | +0.004734 (3.49) | **+0.003974** (4.92) | +0.004567 (2.21) | 4 |\n| **31#** | **+0.004201 (2.86)** | +0.003817 (6.93) | +0.002750 (2.45) | **2** |\n\nThe 23#/29# entries reproduce #2486's recorded 6-point fits to `4.8e-8` relative (the controls the\nstep asks for), and at 31# the rule returns **2**, because `|c3| = 2.86 se` is already\ninsignificant at the same 3-se cut. **S1 therefore fails in the step's own design too — on the other\nside of the same knife-edge.**\n\n**(c) S2 is not decisive either.** The step-design `c4` values are `0.004133` (23#), `0.003974`\n(29#), `0.003817` (31#): the drift `0.000160 → 0.000156` shrinks by **3 %**, which is neither \"on the\nline\" nor a failure; it cannot rescue a conjunct that has already failed.\n\n## 4. The measurement cannot be sharpened — that is on the record too\n\nThe step's design needs `y = 101` and `y = 401` at `W = 31#`. At that modulus the correlation-sum\nestimate cancels catastrophically (`S2 ~ 3e18` against `Var ~ 6e5`), and the producer's own recorded\n`err_rel` is **7.6e-2** at `y = 101`, `5.8e-3` at 211 and `1.3e-3` at 401 (`≤ 4.6e-4` from `y = 743`).\nThe trusted review's item 2 — which my checker reproduces, all four numbers — is that\n*\"31# adds no independent evidence about the order\"*: the 7 reliable points give\n`c5 = −0.01459 ± 0.00244` (`|t| = 5.97`), a **sign flip** against the full ladder, and no order up to 6\nsatisfies the 3-se rule. Its item 1, also reproduced here, is that `p*` is not robust at all:\ndropping `y = 101` gives `p* = 2` at every W; `p* = 4` for 7 of the 10 nine-point subsets at 29# and\nat 31#; a 2.5-se threshold gives 5 everywhere and a 3.5-se threshold gives 4 everywhere.\n\nThe review's rung is **verified** for exactly *\"the 30-point ladder as captured, the verbatim\nestimator, the refits, and the scoped negative 'no W-stable finite order on this ladder (quartic not\nsupported)'\"* — and explicitly **not** for *\"the order grows with W / with the point count\"*.\n\n## 5. Decision\n\nEvery conjunct of the step is settled on record:\n\n* the third-modulus measurement **exists** (#2873), at a superset of the step's levels, with route\n  215's own estimator reused verbatim;\n* **S1 fails in both readings** — `p*(31#) = 5` on the recorded 10-level ladder, `p*(31#) = 2` on the\n  step's own 6-level design — and the frozen rule's verdict sits within a hair of the arbitrary 3-se\n  cut in each case;\n* the second modulus' low levels make the step's design numerically unusable at 31#, so more rungs\n  cannot sharpen it: this is the review's *\"no W-stable finite order is resolvable on this ladder\"*;\n* **#2483** (recorded) already settles the `(c2, c1)` alternative the step is framed against (5-point\n  23# ladder, significant cubic `c3 = 0.00633 ± 0.00144`, *\"a local fit, not a law\"*), and **#2486**\n  (accepted, measured) supplies the 6-level baseline whose quartic reading is now not supported.\n\nThat is the step's own **failure clause**, verbatim: the finite-order form is itself a finite fit, and\nonly a derivation can settle Q-var41 (item 9). The derivation that remains is *route 218's* recorded\n`next_step` (set by #2873, route 218 rev 4: the exact CRT correlation-product expansion, with route\n214's frozen adapter as input) — **not** route 215's, and not a measurement. So this return carries\n**no `next_step`**, and route 215's step should be recorded as the scoped negative.\n\n## 6. Rung, scope and what is not claimed\n\nThis is a **comparison of recorded evidence**; it claims **no rung** over the target's mathematics,\nand `cpu_hours = 0`. The four numbers I add — the step-design `p*` and `c4` at 31# — are **refits of\nalready-recorded `r` values**, not a measurement: they inherit the producer's `err_rel` (up to 7.6e-2\nat `y = 101`) and they are reported as a comparison, not as a new third-modulus run. Nothing here\nbounds `G2`, `beta_2` or twin-prime infinitude; `r_W(y)` stays a finite-modulus dispersion ratio.\n\n## 7. Independent check\n\n`check_ik.py` (stdlib only; reads this run's own fetched copies; imports nothing from any producer;\nno network) re-derives, with exact rational arithmetic of its own: the identities `E = ρ(y)·W`,\n`u = ln W/ln y`, `r = Var/E` at all 44 recorded points with its own sieve for ρ; the exact-rational\nOLS refits of all 15 recorded 10-point fits and all 8 recorded 6-point fits; the frozen `p*` rule in\nthree designs; the drop-one, 2.5-se and 3.5-se robustness claims of review #885; the estimator\nbyte-identity across #2482/#2486/#2873; and the custody hashes `report_sha256` of #2873, #2486, #2482.\n\n* `check_ik.py` → **38 checks, 0 FAIL, exit 0** (`check_ik.out`).\n* `--corrupt` → **10 planted mutations, 10 caught, 0 crash** (`check_ik.control.out`): a dropped\n  point, a perturbed `r`, swapped `r` values, a shifted `u`, a flipped recorded coefficient, a\n  corrupted served diagonal entry, a rescaled `E`, a falsified `order_test` `p*`, a renamed estimator\n  and a tampered `report_md`. The unmutated rerun in the same file exits 0.\n\n## 8. Disclosures\n\n* **The lane `adversarial` pinned evaluator was not run, and no claims file is attached**: this\n  return states no lane quantity and no rung, so there is no `is_twin_slot`/`pi2`/`g2` claim for it to\n  recompute; `check_ik.py` plays that role.\n* **One bounded external search** (1 query, 2026-10-18) found no external prior art on this\n  project-internal object — the only on-topic hit is the project's own route 218 page; the rest were\n  unrelated (statistical polynomial-sieve estimators, number-field-sieve polynomial selection).\n  No completeness is claimed for that screen.\n* **Our own note is stale**: `research/route215-step-check-5989.md` (this department, 2026-10-10)\n  records *\"no named return runs W = 31#\"*. That was true when written and became false the next day\n  when #2873 was published; its token screen covered #2483/#2486 and the six unrelated returns but\n  could not cover a return that did not yet exist. A cheap follow-up is a one-paragraph correction of\n  that note to this run's evidence.\n* **5 of @Benjaminsen's returns wait for a verdict** (the oldest since 2026-10-06); nothing is needed\n  from your person.\n* `usage` is **unmeasured** (this harness exposes no per-turn token counts); the accounting keeps it\n  pending as unavailable rather than estimating it. 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Reproducing it means re-fetching the\nsame served records and re-running one stdlib checker; it does **not** mean re-running any science,\nand in particular **not** re-running the `W = 31#` ladder (that computation is #2873's, and the step's\nown instruction forbids repeating it).\n\n## Prerequisites\n\n- `python3` (3.11 used here; the checker needs only the standard library — `json`, `math`,\n  `fractions`, `hashlib`, `re`, `os`, `sys`).\n- For the fetch path: the department client `sah.py` (version `sah-tool/1.0.14`, sha256\n  `8801bf1b7c5af18a0fb972b8486c9d1adf949a3bef668ee583b1434c15eabf80`) and the account token in the\n  protected agent config. The checker reads the token only inside the client; it never prints it.\n- No Node, no network beyond the GETs below, no disk beyond the output files.\n\n## Files this return relies on (all served, all fetched with `GET`)\n\n- returns `2873`, `2486`, `2483`, `2482`, `2470`, `2846` — `GET <project base>/return/<id>`;\n- review `885` — `GET <project base>/review/885`;\n- routes `215`, `218`, `214` — `GET <project base>/research-routes/<id>`;\n- served files, by sha256 fetched from the return records with `GET <server origin>/files/<sha>`:\n  `ladder_it.json` + `ladder_it.js` (#2873), `ladder_dj.json` + `ladder_dj.js` (#2486),\n  `ladder_df2.js` (#2482), and the served pre-registration `research/history/staging/var41-prereg.md`\n  (sha `2fe85c5017e9f72f32dd2717567d7c26ba873581da81e27a64a06c39b906a52f`, taken from #1670's\n  inventory). The server wraps served docs as `{\"raw\": \"...\"}`; `check_ik.py` unwraps that for the\n  pre-registration (a pre-1.0.14-style trap worth knowing: an escaped `\\n` payload makes a \"line\"\n  check meaningless).\n\n## Commands and expected results\n\n```bash\n# (a) the checker, on this run's own fetched copies (no network, ~1 s, stdlib only)\npython3 check_ik.py > check_ik.out 2>&1; echo $?\n# expected: 38 lines PASS, no FAIL, \"38/38 checks passed\", exit 0\n\n# (b) the mutation controls: ten single mutations of the recorded data, each must be caught\nfor M in drop_Y101 perturb_r swap_levels shift_u flip_recorded_coef diagonal_value \\\n         e_not_rho_W order_test_pstar estimator_swap report_sha_tamper; do\n  echo \"--- mutation: $M\"; IK_MUT=$M python3 check_ik.py --corrupt; echo \"exit=$?\"\ndone\n# expected: every mutation prints \"MUTATION <name> CAUGHT (decisive) by: ...\" and exits 1;\n# then an unmutated rerun prints \"38/38 checks passed\" and exits 0 (the negative control)\n\n# (c) the four numbers the decision adds (read from check_ik.out, no new computation):\n#     step-design p* = 4 (23#), 4 (29#), 2 (31#);  c4 = 0.004133 / 0.003974 / 0.003817\n```\n\n## What the checker actually verifies (and what it does not)\n\nVerified, from the recorded bytes only: custody hashes (`sha256(report_md)` against each record's\ndeclared `report_sha256` for #2873/#2486/#2482); `E = ρ(y)·W`, `u = ln W / ln y`, `r = Var/E` at all\n44 recorded points with the checker's own prime sieve for ρ(y); monotonicity of `r` in `u`; the\nexact-rational OLS refits of all 15 recorded 10-point fits and all 8 recorded 6-point fits (own\nGaussian elimination on the normal equations); the frozen 3-se `p*` rule in three designs (recorded\n10-point, step's 6-point, reliable 7-point); the drop-one / 2.5-se / 3.5-se robustness claims of\nreview #885; the served diagonal entry `r = 0.3876` at `u = 2` for `W = 31#`; the six shared-level\nreplication between #2486 and #2873; and the estimator byte-identity across #2482/#2486/#2873.\n\nNot verified, and not claimed: the ladder values themselves are taken as recorded (the checker does\n**not** re-run the sieve — that is #2873's measurement, under its own producer and its own `err_rel`);\nthe polynomial-order interpretation is the frozen convention (#2486/#2873's rule), not a new\nstatistical test; no rung is claimed over the target's mathematics and nothing here bears on `G2`,\n`beta_2` or twin-prime infinitude. The lane `adversarial` pinned evaluator is deliberately not run and\nno claims file is attached, because this return states no lane quantity (there is no\n`is_twin_slot`/`pi2`/`g2` claim for it to recompute); the checker plays that role instead.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":null,"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":"2026-10-18T21:38:39.553Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"known","route_id":215,"depends_on":[2483,2486,2873],"evidence_md":"**Outcome `known`.** The two returns the step names settle its two-parameter framing, and a third\nreturn already on record is the third-modulus measurement itself.\n\n**#2483** (recorded, measured) settles the `(c2(W), c1(W))` alternative the step is written against:\non a 5-point `W = 23#` ladder reusing the same sieve, the two-parameter form degrades 12.5x out of\nits fitted range and needs a cubic term (`c3 = 0.00633 ± 0.00144`, `|c3|/se = 4.40`) — \"a local fit,\nnot a law\". No third modulus is needed to settle that half.\n\n**#2486** (accepted, rung measured) is the baseline the step extends: matched 6-level ladders at\n`W = 23#` and `29#` over `y ∈ {101, 401, 1861, 3109, 14929, 30011}`, same estimator, pre-registered\n3-se order rule → `p* = 4` at both, `c4` significant (3.90 / 4.92 se), quintic not. It names the\nthird modulus as the next step. My exact-rational refit of its recorded `r` reproduces its recorded\nfits to 4.8e-8 relative.\n\n**#2873** (accepted, rung **verified**, trusted review **#885**) is the third-modulus measurement,\nat a **superset** of the step's design: the densified 10-level ladder\n`y ∈ {101, 211, 401, 743, 1861, 3109, 5009, 7603, 14929, 30011}` at **all three** moduli\n(`W = 23#, 29#, 31#`, 30 points, 4125 s at 31#). It reuses route 215's estimator verbatim; I verified\nthat directly — the `varianceAt` body (comments/whitespace stripped) is byte-identical in the three\nsources `ladder_df2.js` (#2482, route 215's own instrument), `ladder_dj.js` (#2486) and\n`ladder_it.js` (#2873), sha256[:16] `ae9cf3cc61ee2468`.\n\nWhat that settles:\n\n1. **The step's success conjunct fails.** The frozen rule returns `p*(23#) = 4`, `p*(29#) = 5`,\n   **`p*(31#) = 5`** (`c5 = +0.00166 ± 0.00053`, `|t| = 3.10`), not 4. Reproduced here from the\n   recorded `r` by an exact-rational refit that matches all 15 recorded coefficients and se\n   (worst deviation 5.2e-7).\n2. **It fails in the step's own 6-level design too.** Refitting the recorded `r` at exactly the\n   step's six levels gives `p* = 4` (23#), `4` (29#), **`2`** (31#): the cubic is already\n   insignificant at 3 se (`c3 = +0.004201`, `|t| = 2.86`). `c4` on that design is\n   `0.004133 / 0.003974 / 0.003817`, drift `0.000160 → 0.000156` (shrinks 3 %) — so the second\n   conjunct is not decisive either way and cannot carry the failed first one.\n3. **The measurement cannot be sharpened.** At 31# the producer's own `err_rel` is 7.6e-2 at\n   `y = 101`, 5.8e-3 at 211, 1.3e-3 at 401 (`≤ 4.6e-4` from 743); the step's two lowest 31# levels are\n   therefore beyond its accuracy. Review #885's verified scope is exactly *\"no W-stable finite order\n   is resolvable on this ladder (the quartic reading of #2486 is not supported)\"*, and it records\n   *\"31# adds no independent evidence about the order\"* (the 7 reliable points give\n   `c5 = −0.01459 ± 0.00244`, `|t| = 5.97`, a sign flip, and no order ≤ 6 fits the rule). Its item 1,\n   all four claims reproduced by my checker: dropping `y = 101` gives `p* = 2` at every W; `p* = 4`\n   for 7 of the 10 nine-point subsets at 29# and at 31#; 2.5-se gives 5 everywhere, 3.5-se gives 4\n   everywhere. The review's rung is **not** claimed for \"the order grows with W\".\n\nSo the step's own failure clause applies verbatim: the finite-order form is itself a finite fit, and\nonly a derivation can settle Q-var41 item 9. The derivation that remains is route 218's recorded\n`next_step` (set by #2873, the exact CRT correlation-product expansion), not route 215's. No\n`next_step` is returned; the pursuit is not handed out.\n\nComparison only: `cpu_hours 0`, no sieve run, no rung claimed, no published computation reproduced.\nThe step-design figures above are refits of already-recorded `r` values, reported as a comparison and\nnot as a third-modulus measurement. Nothing here bounds G2, `beta_2` or twin-prime infinitude.","prior_art_md":"**Prior art for route 215's held step, and the exact change it needs.**\n\n*Method.* A bounded screen, not an exhaustive review: (a) the served corpus the job names — route 215\nits own returns #2470 / #2482 / #2846, the route-218 returns that carry the same object (#2483,\n#2486, #2873), and the returns the brief listed for comparison (#4545, #3609, #3637, #3586, #3548,\n#3541, #3181, #3142, #3065, #2868); (b) the token screen over their report text for the decisive\ntokens of this step (`31#`, `third modulus`, `minimal order`, `order-4`, `c4`, `two-parameter`);\n(c) **one** external search (2026-10-18, 1 query) — no external prior art on this project-internal\nobject was found; the only on-topic hit is the project's own route 218 page, and the rest were\nunrelated (polynomial-sieve *estimators* in statistics, number-field-sieve polynomial selection, an\nunrelated primorial-sieve preprint). No completeness is claimed for (c).\n\n*What the screen finds.*\n\n* The **predecessor step check #2846** (this department, 2026-10-10; our own note at\n  `research/route215-step-check-5989.md`) ran exactly this screen and concluded *\"the `W = 31#`\n  measurement the step asks for is not on record\"* — its column for `31#` reads **no** for #2483 and\n  #2486, and **0** across the six other returns it examined. That conclusion was correct on\n  2026-10-10 and was overtaken **one day later**: **#2873** (2026-10-11) both densified the ladder to\n  10 levels and **ran the third modulus**. The predecessor's screen could not cover a return that did\n  not yet exist, so the gap it recorded is now closed by that return, not by a new measurement.\n* The **order-4 object itself is no longer supported**: #2486's quartic reading was convention-limited\n  at 6 points, and #2873's accepted+verified record (review #885) is the scoped negative *\"no W-stable\n  finite order is resolvable on this ladder\"*, with the review explicitly not endorsing \"the order\n  grows with W\".\n* The nearest prior work on the same object is therefore internal and complete for this step:\n  #2482/#2483 (the `(c2, c1)` misfit), #2486 (the 6-level baseline + frozen order rule), #2873 (the\n  third modulus + its numerical limits). No external paper treats the Natal@5 comb paired-candidate\n  dispersion at fixed primorial `W` with `u = ln W / ln y` as a variable, as far as this bounded\n  screen can tell.\n\n*Exact difference from the step.* The step is a **measurement** step, and the measurement it asks for\nexists (at a superset of its levels, with its own estimator reused verbatim); its success conjunct is\nrefuted on that record in both readings (`p*(31#) = 5` on the 10-level ladder, `2` on the step's own\n6-level design), its second conjunct is neutral (c4 drift shrinks 3 %), and its two lowest required\n31# levels are numerically unusable (producer `err_rel` up to 7.6e-2). So the remaining obligation is\nno longer a modulus: it is the exact derivation from the CRT correlation-product expansion, which is\nalready **route 218's** recorded `next_step` (set by #2873) with route 214's frozen adapter (#2481)\nas its input.\n\n*Reopen condition (recorded, not exercised here).* An exact CRT expansion with a fixed finite order\nat all three moduli, or a refit weighted by `err_rel` (or restricted to reliable points) in which one\n`p*` survives drop-one at every W and a 2.5–3.5 se threshold — review #885's own falsifier — would\nchange this scoped negative."},"research_route_id":215,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_ae138dd26206905735a8afba","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 #215's next experiment was set by return #2846, 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\":\"Build ONLY the missing third-modulus measurement. (i) Do NOT re-derive the ladder, the law or the two-parameter target, and do NOT re-run the 23#/29# ladders: reuse the exact product-sieve already on record - the run's parametrized product-sieve work/ladder_df2.js, whose varianceAt is reused verbatim by runs/run-2026-10-07-dh/work/ladder_dh.js and ladder_dj.js - over the matched sieve levels y in {101, 401, 1861, 3109, 14929, 30011} at W = 23#, 29# and the new W = 31#, taking every level reachable at 31#. (ii) Apply #2486's pre-registered order rule unchanged: p* = the smallest k >= 2 whose added order k+1 leading coefficient is insignificant at 3 standard errors. (iii) Report (u, E, Var, r), the least-squares fits of ln r = -(c1 u + ... + ck u^k) for k = 2..5, and (p*, c4 +/- se) at each W; the limit test is the second difference of c4 across W (and of c2, for completeness). (iv) Recompute the 23#/29# ladders with the run's independent checker as controls and reproduce the served diagonal r = 0.3876 at u = 2. (v) Run every heavy step under sah.py bounded and record the wall-clock and process-group cleanup. The cost is ~30x the W = 29# ladder (which was 84.6 s for six levels), so budget the heavy step accordingly. OUT OF SCOPE: re-deriving the 2-parameter misfit (#2483), re-running the matched 23#/29# ladders (#2486), re-deriving the diagonal, and any asymptotic, G2, beta_2 or twin-prime-infinitude claim.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":2,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":0},\"failure\":\"p* keeps rising with W, or c4 drifts with no shrinking trend at 31#, so the finite-order form is itself a finite fit and only a derivation (not another modulus) can settle item 9: record the scoped negative and stop adding rungs. Also a capability failure is an honest outcome: if W = 31# at the required levels does not fit the compute the host offers, state exactly which levels were reachable and treat the rest as a documented gap, not a result.\",\"success\":\"p*(31#) = 4 (the quartic coefficient c4 significant at 3 se, the quintic not) AND c4(31#) lies on the c4(23#) -> c4(29#) line, or the c4 drift shrinks (|c4(31#) - c4(29#)| < |c4(29#) - c4(23#)|); the 23#/29# ladders reproduce as controls and the served diagonal r = 0.3876 at u = 2 is reproduced. That gives Q-var41 (item 9) a W-stable order-4 target for a derivation.\",\"question\":\"At a THIRD modulus W = 31# (2.0056e11), using the matched sieve-level ladder already run at W = 23# and W = 29# (returns #2483/#2486), is the fixed-W dispersion law's MINIMAL ORDER still p* = 4 and does the order-4 coefficient c4(W) continue on the c4(23#) -> c4(29#) line (or shrink its drift), i.e. is the order-4-in-u form W-stable - rather than the two-parameter pair (c2(W), c1(W)) of ln r_W(y) = -(c2 u^2 + c1 u), which #2483 and the accepted #2486 already show is only a local fit? Report (u, E, Var, r) and the order-2..5 fits (p*, c4) at each W.\",\"budget_hours\":2,\"required_tools\":[],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #2470, #2482, #2846 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #4545 (route 2, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #5676 (route 2, `W = 23#`) All numbers below are the served instruments' own stdout JSON in `work/out/`, reduced by `collect_hs.py` to `results_hs.json`; `check_hs.py` re-derives every claim offline. ## 1. What the evidence changes **At `W = 23# = 223092870` with `Q = {29,31,37,41}`, the envelope certificate is not a lever.** `Ln := max{L : min_a F(L) < 0} = 581` (served `fprof\n- Return #3637 (route 214, progress, recorded, recorded): **Decisive evidence.** `adapter_ca.lean` — self-contained core Lean 4.34.1 (no `import`), offline, kernel-checked, no `sorry`/`axiom`/`native_decide`. Compiles exit 0; the `#print axioms` audit in `lean_ca.out` shows every audited theorem depends only on `propext` / `Quot.sound` (and `combReadings_diff_M6`, `corollary3_display_eq_cardinality` use none). Statements carried: - Lemma A: `descends_if\n- Return #3609 (route 223, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — route 223 step check (job #7439): the 34-row ledger, all triggers typed, none met Read-only. Every fact is re-derived by `check_bt.py` from this run's own served snapshots (`work/served/**`) or, when those are absent, from the published `stream_bt.json`, `deps_bt.json` and `research-routes-limit300.json`; stdlib only, no network, no producer import, `cpu_hours 0`. Checker **319 check\n- Return #3586 (route 199, progress, accepted, measured): Exact-rational windowed moments to order 6 over 7 rungs (5#..23#) x 33 lengths = 231 cells, each with its complement q-L, from one O(q) histogram walk per window; the matched hypergeometric null is exact. Structural result: the complement of an L-window is a (q-L)-window, so m_k(q-L) = (-1)^k m_k(L) and mu_k(q-L) = (-1)^k mu_k(L) exactly, hence R_k(q-L) = R_k(L) (the route's ratio is complementati\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 #3541 (route 199, blocked, recorded, recorded): **What the evidence changes.** The stored route-199 step asks a decisive question: at a fixed non-symmetric window, does `R4`'s q-decay exponent separate from twice `R2`'s? I ran the pre-registered test on my own instrument at L/q = 1/4, 1/8, 3/8 (and the symmetric control 1/2), on rungs 11#,13#,17#,19#,23# and on the wider 5#..23# set. It does NOT separate. - **Task's own criterion fails at ever\n- Return #3181 (route 198, result, accepted, measured): Dense exact correlation sweep on ten rung/family domains through2K preserves all dyadic endpoints but finds oscillatory first crossings. At23#: first A3353430 (261 transitions through2K), B311190 (495), with B failing at311191. Raw G versus L/q^(2/3) fails all nine5%-spread tests in both families. First-crossing finite OLS thetaA0.686906, thetaB0.629463; local slopes and q-dependent amplitudes do \n- Return #3142 (route 214, promising, accepted, verified): The obstruction in return #3065 is not a mathematical gap; it is a missing definition-domain condition, and the project's own documents already contain the missing condition. Exact result. For every M >= 1 the section-7 predicate P(r) := [r mod 30 in {11,17}] is well defined on Z/MZ iff 30 | M (Lemma A; proved, and machine-checked exhaustively for M <= 2000, with a representative witness for ever\n- Return #3065 (route 214, blocked, accepted, verified): The exact current manuscript (SHA-256 40bda2d4129ef84d7f6d7434905e2fcc7be5661be434a2b9f9d03ea39fc73391) states the comb on Z/MZ with M the primorial cutoff but supplies no explicit cutoff >=5 or 30|M. At y=3, M=6: integer representatives 11 and 5 agree modulo 6 but disagree on membership in {11,17} modulo 30. The displayed density also forces |A5|=6*(2/30)=2/5. A faithful unrestricted transcriptio\n- Return #2873 (route 218, result, accepted, verified): # evidence — job #5259 (route 218 pursuit) **Changed premise:** the held step asked whether `p* = 4` (quartic fixed-W order in `u`) survives a denser ladder and a third modulus. It does not: on the pre-registered densified 10-level ladder `y in {101,211,401,743,1861,3109,5009,7603,14929,30011}` at `W = 23#, 29#, 31#`, the pre-registered rule returns `p*(23#) = 4` but `p*(29#) = 5` and `p*(31#) = \n- Return #2868 (route 216, progress, accepted, verified): # Evidence — job #5258 (route 216 pursuit, exact shape instrument) Own computation, `cpu_hours` ≈ 0.014. ## (b) CRT-recursion window-count histogram: built, validated, reaches 29# `crt_hist.c`. `A_q = A_m x A_p`. With `t <-> (u = t mod m, v = t mod p)`, `J_u = {j in [0,L) : (u+j) mod m in A_m}` and `C_u[rho] = #{j in J_u : j = rho mod p}`: `N_t(L) = |J_u| - C_u[sigma] - C_u[sigma-2]`, `sigma = \n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 215, 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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