{"id":5308,"job_id":10466,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":61,"model":"glm-5.3-flash","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Evidence — job #10466, route 172 first look (step check)\n\n**Scope.** Read-only comparison. No experiment run, no capped integral evaluated, no published\nnumber recomputed from scratch; the only arithmetic is exact `Fraction` arithmetic on printed\nfigures (checker C10). `cpu_hours 0`.\n\n## Custody (all fetched this run; sha256 recorded in `reads/*.provenance.json`)\n\n- Route record `research-routes/172` (sha `00bfb08d…`): `state active`, `revision 4`,\n  `last_return_id 3989`, `next_job_id null`, `updated_at 2026-10-15T13:51:40.060Z`.\n- Setter `return/3989` (sha `04158898…`): route 172, `progress`, recorded, created\n  2026-10-15T13:51:40.060Z, job 8121.\n- Route's own returns: `return/1942` (accepted, `measured`, review 579), `return/1972`\n  (recorded), `return/1991` (recorded), `return/3850` (accepted, `verified`, review 1407).\n- Named comparisons: `return/5249` (route 160), `return/5245` (route 159), `return/5233`\n  (route 167), `return/4996` (route 158), `return/4404` (route 234), `return/4170` (route 291),\n  `return/4162` (route 291); sweep hit `return/4391` (route 234).\n- Board snapshot (`board` sha `a638d977…`): newest return id 5275 at fetch time; inbox empty\n  (`questions`, `human_questions`, `deliveries` all `[]`).\n- Bounded public sweep of return ids 3990..5275 (everything recorded after the setter): every id\n  accounted (HTTP 200 body or 404), token screen in `work/sweep_10466.json`; script\n  `work/sweep_10466.py` (no credentials, resumable checkpoint).\n\n**Step three-way verified.** Brief step object == route-served `next_step` == #3989\n`research.next_step`; canonical compact-sorted sha256\n`d63bdb9986fc10bda703796c546a5b0020623b1f6e2fca1313ce1d1afa64e2e8` in all three (C02).\n\n## The held step\n\nSweep `(k, d)` upward from #1972's nine cells `{4,6,8} x {1,2,3}`, building the capped\ndenominator `Delta` on the FAITHFUL occurrence path (#3850's served `denom_faithful_cu.py`,\nsha `9b45229b96c1e6b29d6f…` — verified against #3850's served file inventory) instead of\n#1942's `capped_gram.denominator_functionals` (= #1641's radial `violation_F2`), whose `s = 0`\n(`r = k`) stratum is defective at small `k`; served `#1599 even-engine.py` for `M1, M2`; no\nrecording pass at `k = 46`; no `d`-enrichment of the `k = 46` basis; instrument control at the\n`s = 0` stratum per cell; definiteness table both ways; sweep to the smallest affordable\ndefinite cell and beyond `k = 12` (`floor(c_r/d) = 12`); record exact `q_cap`, `q_uncap`,\n`c = 1 - q_cap/q_uncap`, scaled `lambda_min(M1^cap)`; fit `c(k)`, extrapolate to `k = 46`.\nAnswer (i) whether any affordable cell has positive-definite `M1^cap` on the faithful\ndenominator, and (ii) how `c(k)` behaves. Budget 1.5 CPU-h, 4 GiB RAM, 1 GiB disk, `python3`.\n\n## What each comparison return settles\n\n- **#5249** (route 160 step check, `needs_capability`, recorded): custody re-hash of the served\n  `d = 17`/`d = 19` gram shards and #4404's eval files; penalty ledger for the `d = 19`/`d = 21`\n  uncapped optima. Explicitly: \"No recording pass at d = 19 was run; no capped integral was\n  evaluated beyond the served d = 17 matrices; no published number was recomputed from scratch.\"\n  Not the faithful `(k, d)` sweep.\n- **#5245** (route 159, `known`, recorded): route 159's own region-planes step is answered by\n  #1641/#3879; restates #1942's negative `k = 46` verdict (reproduced by #4404) and the scale\n  defect of #1631-style step wording. No `(k, d)` sweep.\n- **#5233** (route 167, `progress`, recorded): the route-167 step check. Its Finding A: the\n  `k = 46` re-optimisation is on record and negative (#1942 `3.8115713687001214 < 1/A`,\n  `Q = -1.9296200187e-95`, reproduced by #4404 from the served shards), and \"`Delta` can move a\n  percentage, not a sign\". Its still-open item is route 167's own: the faithful occurrence-path\n  `Delta` at `k = 46` is unrun: #3850's log holds `r = 0..3` only (`I_cap` partials\n  `3.861354e-03`, `3.558047e-02`, `1.269480e-01`, `2.400453e-01`, cumulative `4.144635e-01` of\n  `I_0`) plus the `r = 1` cross-instrument datum `7.331e-05` faithful vs `7.330195e-05` radial).\n  Review #1407: the decisive comparison is \"not\" reached and `r = 4..13` alone needs \">= 11,000 s\".\n  It lists the returns that compute or price something else (#3879, #3887, #3890, #3906, #3920,\n  #3989, #4391, #4404, #4996) — none runs the sweep. Route 167's replacement step is its own\n  stratum-completion step, not route 172's sweep.\n- **#4996** (route 158, accepted, `measured`): normalisation scatter of the uncapped `d = 17`\n  optimum (16 `I_0` classes, 283,332 ulp width, `lam` bit-identical in 45 runs). Its token hits\n  (`violation_F2`, `denominator_functionals`, `q_cap`, `q_uncap`, `c(k, d)`) are the quoted\n  #3989 step text inside its own report — a benign quote, not execution.\n- **#4404** (route 234, `needs_capability`, recorded): instrument rebuilt from served bytes and\n  validated exactly at `d = 17`; new exact result that pure basis enrichment cannot move the\n  capped rung (capped correction is degree-independent for `B_17`-supported witnesses); prices\n  the `d = 19` recording pass at 45–70 CPU-h. \"No capped number at d >= 19 is claimed.\" Not the\n  sweep.\n- **#4170** (route 291, `promising`, recorded): #1942's served capped row\n  (`3.8115713687001214`) is below both anchors, so its negative verdict is anchor-independent.\n  Quoted there: \"No capped optimum recomputed\" — the quoted row is #1942's, tested for internal\n  consistency only. Not the sweep.\n- **#4162** (route 291, `proposed`, recorded): convention-dominance synthesis (`rho` metric) over\n  #2577/#2074. Not the sweep.\n- **#4391** (route 234 first look, `promising`, recorded; caught by the sweep's token screen, 7\n  step tokens): comparison-only route-234 step check; its C08 stratum arithmetic\n  (`22*(40/861) <= 886/861 < 23*(40/861)`, so every `Delta` stratum at `k = 46` has\n  `s = 46 - r >= 24`) explains why #3850's `s = 0` defect cannot enter the #1942 machinery at\n  `k = 46` — context for the step's control, not an execution of it.\n\n**Sweep screen.** Public return ids 3990..5275 (everything recorded after the setter): 1,286 ids,\nall accounted (551 HTTP-200 bodies, 735 404 gaps); 101 token hits, of which 85 are the benign\n`s = 0` substring class and 16 are inspected in full (each fetched and read): #4391 (7 step\ntokens), #5233/#5245/#5249 (the named comparisons above), #4404/#4170/#4996/#5259 (the quoted\n#3989 step text inside their own reports), #4004 (`r = k` inside route-173 K*-capacity prose),\n#4446 (`c(k)` inside verification-recipe paths), and #4245/#4972/#5057/#5163/#5218/#5222 (other\nroutes' \"nine cells\": route 220/184/31 cells, not #1972's). None reports a faithful-path cell\ncomputation, a both-ways definiteness table, or a `c(k)` fit on the faithful denominator.\n\n## Route-state facts\n\n- No post-setter return on route 172: `last_return_id 3989`, all route events have\n  `return_id <= 3989`; the held pursue job 8126 (1.5 h) is `expired` unrun, as are 4481; no\n  `next_job_id` queued. On-route work stops at the setter.\n- #3989's own record already answers part (i) *negatively on the record*: \"No return on record\n  reports a definite capped cell at any `(k, d)` other than the single `k = 46, d = 17` point\"\n  — and that is the point of this step check: the sweep base was defective (radial instrument\n  at all nine cells), so part (i) has no trustworthy answer and part (ii) is untouched.\n\n## Answer\n\nThe step is **unanswered**: no return on record runs the faithful-occurrence-path `(k, d)`\nsweep, the per-cell `s = 0` instrument control, the both-ways definiteness table, or a faithful\n`c(k)` fit. Outcome `promising` with the step copied exactly as `next_step`; the held pursuit\ngoes out with this note and these returns never hold it again.\n\nExact cross-checks (C10, `Fraction`): `1/A = 10000/2583` = 3.8714672861014323…; #1942's\ndeficit `1/A - 3.8115713687001214 = 0.0598959174013110…` exactly\n(`773555773237932119/12915000000000000000`; #3989's own text prints the 2-ulp-rounded\n`0.0598959174013112`); #1991's corrected cap-cost target: the served exact fraction\n`386329513461749941/50386329513461749941 = 0.7667347814…%` equals\n`1 - (10000/2583)/3.9013805275618854` **exactly** — #1991 applied the #1869 anchor ratio\n`J_0/I_0 = 3.9013805275618854` directly (no second `I_0` division); the `I_0`-normalised\nrecomputation `1 - (10000/2583)/(3.9013805275618854/0.9999999999838952)` differs by 1.6e-11\n(16-digit input rounding) — either way the step's `<= 0.766735%` success constant reproduces.\nServed-inventory sha checks (C06): #1972's\n`sweep_frozen_threshold.py` = `3d69a7c308a6f0ce2dd05df6a94abc00f37f6259a896926daf74411ae0b6021e`\n(as #3989 cites), #3850's `denom_faithful_cu.py` =\n`9b45229b96c1e6b29d6f862183b9fa375b08beaa4a0ccfec7b2664b4d772f729` (as the step names).\n\n## Limits\n\nCoverage is scoped to the route record, the setter, the seven named comparison returns, the\n16 sweep-hit returns read in full, and the bounded 3990..5275 public sweep; the sweep's\ntoken list cannot catch a return that implements the sweep with none of the step's vocabulary.\nNo experiment was run; no computation reproduced; nothing here bounds `G2`, `beta_2` or\ntwin-prime infinitude. No channel message posted: the adapter exposes no message endpoint; the\nreturn itself is the completion note. Inbox was empty at fetch time (no question to claim).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"report.md":"774cccfeebed01ba403998bfeab03704806f8452619c3b1af386b3053dd8bef2","check_10466.py":"ff0c2bf161bf755b45e047dc0c16d60b027e67433320c9bb717dbde69d121d0c","sweep_10466.py":"407e53857c03a02f1eca8cb868fc575e9a5808534c4b3bcb70fb30ba482f66a2","check_10466.out":"7d92203f2b6c162e62cf2dbe907d3085d861c15f1291078907c13095c8e15bef","sweep_10466.json":"3d46fa2eaeebe5a7df8a0e4c86436c7d85d2ebd804efed1465a71353b6670d98","evidence_10466.md":"8d20557541dbc803808b6e4cc1d2abd8cc256bda3be130b3615ba113e36b9a66","sweep_fill_10466.py":"1007069e67dc43a8c263ee9c14c39e4429699fe74642599ea9825cf442383bf4","check_10466.corrupt1.out":"975a302a89352dab2d7e0ec981e025c6ea47a437d98c4470e8a8b07748fe562e"},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-21T19:04:56.273Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[3989,1942,1972,1991,3850,5249,5245,5233,4996,4404,4170,4162,4391,4004,4446,4245,4972,5057,5163,5218,5222,5259],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":258568,"models":{"glm-5.3-flash":119488},"output":119488,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":28570786,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — job #10466 (route 172 step check, read-only)\n\nEverything below is read-only against the served project plus local files; no experiment from the\nstep is executed. `RUN` is this run's local directory.\n\n1. Fetch the served evidence (helper keeps provenance + sha256 per file under `RUN/reads/`):\n\n```sh\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'research-routes/172' --out route172.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/3989'      --out return_3989.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/1942'      --out return_1942.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/1972'      --out return_1972.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/1991'      --out return_1991.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/3850'      --out return_3850.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/5249'      --out return_5249.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/5245'      --out return_5245.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/5233'      --out return_5233.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/4996'      --out return_4996.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/4404'      --out return_4404.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/4170'      --out return_4170.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/4162'      --out return_4162.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/4391'      --out return_4391.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/4004'      --out return_4004.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/4446'      --out return_4446.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/4245'      --out return_4245.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/4972'      --out return_4972.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/5057'      --out return_5057.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'return/5163'      --out return_5163.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'board'            --out board.json\npython3 .solveathome/sah.py read --run \"$RUN\" --path 'department/inbox' --out inbox.json\n```\n\n2. Sweep every public return id recorded after the setter (#3989) up to the board's newest\n   return (5275 at fetch time), screening for the step's vocabulary (public unauthenticated\n   GETs; no credentials; resumable checkpoint; gentle sequential fill with 429 backoff):\n\n```sh\npython3 \"$RUN/work/sweep_10466.py\" \"$RUN/work\"\npython3 \"$RUN/work/sweep_fill_10466.py\" \"$RUN/work\"   # repeat until all ids are 200/404\n```\n\n3. Verify the record from saved bytes (12 checks; exit 0 expected):\n\n```sh\npython3 \"$RUN/work/check_10466.py\"\n```\n\n4. Corruption controls (each must exit 1 by its own named check):\n\n```sh\nfor n in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13; do\n  python3 \"$RUN/work/check_10466.py\" --corrupt \"$n\" && echo \"UNDETECTED $n\"\ndone\n```\n\nExpected: step canonical sha `d63bdb9986fc10bda703796c546a5b0020623b1f6e2fca1313ce1d1afa64e2e8`\nthree ways; route 172 `active` rev 4 `last_return_id 3989`; sweep fully accounted; checker\n`RESULT: PASS`; every corruption caught. No step computation is run anywhere in this recipe.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"xhigh","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":172,"next_step":{"method":"Sweep (k, d) upward from #1972's nine cells ({4,6,8} x {1,2,3}) again, but build the capped denominator Delta on the FAITHFUL occurrence path instead of #1942's capped_gram.denominator_functionals, which is #1641's radial capped_numerator.violation_F2: #3850 (accepted, verified) shows that radial Delta disagrees with the faithful one exactly at the r = k (s = 0) stratum, and every one of the nine cells includes that stratum (the loop runs r = 1..k and r*d <= U for all r <= 8). No recording pass at k = 46 and no d-enrichment of the k = 46 basis. Use the served #1599 even-engine.py for M1, M2 and, for the over-cap region, #3850's served denom_faithful_cu.py (sha 9b45229b96c1e6b29d6f...): #1869's nu_fast.grouped_expansion_fast with its capped / full / over mode switch, whose per-term and end-to-end identities are exact at k = 3..6. Steps: (0) instrument control - at each cell report whether the r = k (s = 0) stratum is present and the ratio of the radial to the faithful increment there, and require the end-to-end identity I_0 - Delta = I_cap to hold exactly on the cell's own witness (this is the control #1972 could not run); (1) recompute #1972's nine cells on the faithful path and report the definiteness table both ways, so the size and the sign of the #3850 correction are visible; (2) sweep k upward to the smallest affordable definite cell, and beyond k = 12 where the rough-count cap can first bind (floor(c_r/d) = 12), recording exact q_cap, q_uncap, c = 1 - q_cap/q_uncap and the scaled lambda_min(M1^cap) at every cell where the diagonally equilibrated M1^cap is positive definite (top_ritz(check_pd=True) refuses otherwise); (3) fit c(k) and extrapolate to k = 46. Answer in order: (i) does any affordable cell have positive-definite M1^cap at all - and does the answer survive the faithful denominator; (ii) if so, how does c(k) behave. Repeat with c_r scaled so that the capped FRACTION of the support is held fixed in k, which is the scale-invariant form of the schedule the route's third revisit condition asks for.","compute":{"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":1.5},"failure":"Either no affordable cell has a positive-definite M1^cap once Delta is computed on the faithful occurrence path (the capped pencil is then not a well-defined optimization problem anywhere it can be checked, and the cap branch closes for k = 46 at A = 2583/10000), or the faithful c(k) is flat or increasing across at least three definite cells, or the radial-vs-faithful increment ratio at the r = k (s = 0) stratum is 1 at every definite cell (which would make #3850's s = 0 defect irrelevant to this sweep and would reinstate #1972's nine indefinite cells as a sound base).","success":"At least one affordable cell has a positive-definite M1^cap on the faithful denominator, the r = k (s = 0) control shows the radial correction is not innocuous at the cells where it was used, and the measured faithful c(k) decreases toward <= 0.766735% at k = 46, which makes the cap schedule the sole remaining target and reopens a bounded pursuit aimed at the cap term rather than at d.","question":"Once Delta is computed on the faithful occurrence path (no r = k, s = 0 branch), does the relative cap cost c(k, d) = 1 - q_cap/q_uncap still behave as #1972's nine indefinite cells suggested, and does it fall toward <= 0.766735% as the number of variables k grows, at the cap schedule already on the record?","budget_hours":1.5,"required_tools":["python3"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[3989,1942,1972,1991,3850,5249,5245,5233,4996,4404,4170,4162,4391],"evidence_md":"**Verdict: `promising` — no return on record answers route 172's held step; it is copied exactly as `next_step`.**\n\nScope: read-only comparison; cpu_hours 0; no experiment run, no capped integral evaluated, no\npublished number recomputed from scratch (exact `Fraction` arithmetic only).\n\nCustody (sha256 in `reads/*.provenance.json`): route `research-routes/172`\n(sha `00bfb08d…`): `active`, rev 4, `last_return_id 3989`, `next_job_id null`; setter\n`return/3989` (sha `04158898…`, job 8121, recorded); route's own #1942 (accepted `measured`, review 579),\n#1972, #1991 (recorded), #3850 (accepted `verified`, review 1407); named comparisons\n#5249 (route 160), #5245 (159), #5233 (167), #4996 (158), #4404 (234), #4170 (291), #4162 (291);\nsweep hit #4391 (234). Board snapshot: newest return 5275; inbox empty.\n\nStep three-way verified: brief == route-served `next_step` == #3989 `research.next_step`;\ncanonical compact-sorted sha256 `d63bdb9986fc10bda703796c546a5b0020623b1f6e2fca1313ce1d1afa64e2e8`.\n\nPer-return: #5249 \"No recording pass at d = 19 was run; no capped integral was evaluated beyond\nthe served d = 17 matrices\" — custody + penalty ledger, not the sweep. #5245 answers route 159's\nregion-planes step; restates #1942's negative verdict. #5233: the faithful occurrence-path `Delta`\nat `k = 46` is unrun (#3850's log holds `r = 0..3` + the `r = 1` cross-instrument datum\n`7.331e-05` faithful vs `7.330195e-05` radial); its Finding A — the `k = 46` re-optimisation is\non record and negative, \"`Delta` can move a percentage, not a sign\"; its replacement step is\nroute 167's own stratum completion. #4996: BLAS normalisation scatter of the uncapped `d = 17`\noptimum; its step-vocabulary tokens are the quoted #3989 text. #4404: instrument validated at\n`d = 17`, pure basis enrichment cannot move the capped rung (degree-independence), `d = 19` pass\npriced 45–70 CPU-h; \"no capped number at d >= 19 is claimed\". #4170: #1942's row below both\nanchors, negative verdict anchor-independent; \"No capped optimum recomputed\". #4162:\nconvention-dominance synthesis. #4391: comparison-only; its stratum arithmetic\n(`22*(40/861) <= 886/861 < 23*(40/861)`, so every `Delta` stratum at `k = 46` has `s = 46-r >= 24`)\nexplains why the #3850 `s = 0` defect cannot enter the #1942 machinery at `k = 46`.\n\nSweep screen: ids 3990..5275 (all recorded after the setter) all accounted (551 bodies/7404s);\n101 token hits: 85 benign `s = 0`-only, 16 inspected in full — #4391/#5233/#5245/#5249\n(step-quoting comparisons), #4404/#4170/#4996/#5259 (quoted #3989 step text), #4004/#4446\n(capacity prose/recipe paths), #4245/#4972/#5057/#5163/#5218/#5222 (other routes' \"nine cells\").\nNone reports a faithful-path cell computation, a both-ways definiteness table, or a faithful\n`c(k)` fit.\n\nRoute state: no post-setter return on route 172 (all events `return_id <= 3989`); held pursue\n8126 `expired` unrun; no queued `next_job_id`.\n\nExact cross-checks: `1/A = 10000/2583`; #1942's deficit `1/A - 3.8115713687001214 =\n0.0598959174013110…` exactly (#3989's text prints the 2-ulp-rounded `0.0598959174013112`);\n#1991's cap-cost target: its served exact fraction `386329513461749941/50386329513461749941 =\n0.7667347814…%` equals `1 - (10000/2583)/3.9013805275618854` exactly (#1991 applied the #1869\nanchor ratio `J_0/I_0` directly; the `I_0`-normalised recomputation differs by 1.6e-11 from\n16-digit input rounding) — the step's `<= 0.766735%` constant reproduces. Served-inventory shas:\n#1972 `sweep_frozen_threshold.py` = `3d69a7c308a6…` (as #3989 cites), #3850\n`denom_faithful_cu.py` = `9b45229b96c1…` (as the step names).\n\nLimits: coverage scoped to the route record, the setter, the named comparisons, the inspected\nsweep hits and the bounded 3990..5275 sweep; the token list cannot catch a sweep implemented with\nnone of the step's vocabulary. Nothing here bounds `G2`, `beta_2` or twin-prime infinitude.\nChecker `check_10466.py` 12/12 PASS exit 0 from saved bytes; 13 corruption controls each decisive."},"research_route_id":172,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_305c5ed257ff1e3f8cabe7ff","run_id":"run_7571eff8f3a741207b77c251","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":"malaiwah","job_brief":"Step check before pursuit. Route #172's next experiment was set by return #3989, 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\":\"Sweep (k, d) upward from #1972's nine cells ({4,6,8} x {1,2,3}) again, but build the capped denominator Delta on the FAITHFUL occurrence path instead of #1942's capped_gram.denominator_functionals, which is #1641's radial capped_numerator.violation_F2: #3850 (accepted, verified) shows that radial Delta disagrees with the faithful one exactly at the r = k (s = 0) stratum, and every one of the nine cells includes that stratum (the loop runs r = 1..k and r*d <= U for all r <= 8). No recording pass at k = 46 and no d-enrichment of the k = 46 basis. Use the served #1599 even-engine.py for M1, M2 and, for the over-cap region, #3850's served denom_faithful_cu.py (sha 9b45229b96c1e6b29d6f...): #1869's nu_fast.grouped_expansion_fast with its capped / full / over mode switch, whose per-term and end-to-end identities are exact at k = 3..6. Steps: (0) instrument control - at each cell report whether the r = k (s = 0) stratum is present and the ratio of the radial to the faithful increment there, and require the end-to-end identity I_0 - Delta = I_cap to hold exactly on the cell's own witness (this is the control #1972 could not run); (1) recompute #1972's nine cells on the faithful path and report the definiteness table both ways, so the size and the sign of the #3850 correction are visible; (2) sweep k upward to the smallest affordable definite cell, and beyond k = 12 where the rough-count cap can first bind (floor(c_r/d) = 12), recording exact q_cap, q_uncap, c = 1 - q_cap/q_uncap and the scaled lambda_min(M1^cap) at every cell where the diagonally equilibrated M1^cap is positive definite (top_ritz(check_pd=True) refuses otherwise); (3) fit c(k) and extrapolate to k = 46. Answer in order: (i) does any affordable cell have positive-definite M1^cap at all - and does the answer survive the faithful denominator; (ii) if so, how does c(k) behave. Repeat with c_r scaled so that the capped FRACTION of the support is held fixed in k, which is the scale-invariant form of the schedule the route's third revisit condition asks for.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":4,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":1.5},\"failure\":\"Either no affordable cell has a positive-definite M1^cap once Delta is computed on the faithful occurrence path (the capped pencil is then not a well-defined optimization problem anywhere it can be checked, and the cap branch closes for k = 46 at A = 2583/10000), or the faithful c(k) is flat or increasing across at least three definite cells, or the radial-vs-faithful increment ratio at the r = k (s = 0) stratum is 1 at every definite cell (which would make #3850's s = 0 defect irrelevant to this sweep and would reinstate #1972's nine indefinite cells as a sound base).\",\"success\":\"At least one affordable cell has a positive-definite M1^cap on the faithful denominator, the r = k (s = 0) control shows the radial correction is not innocuous at the cells where it was used, and the measured faithful c(k) decreases toward <= 0.766735% at k = 46, which makes the cap schedule the sole remaining target and reopens a bounded pursuit aimed at the cap term rather than at d.\",\"question\":\"Once Delta is computed on the faithful occurrence path (no r = k, s = 0 branch), does the relative cap cost c(k, d) = 1 - q_cap/q_uncap still behave as #1972's nine indefinite cells suggested, and does it fall toward <= 0.766735% as the number of variables k grows, at the cap schedule already on the record?\",\"budget_hours\":1.5,\"required_tools\":[\"python3\"],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #1942, #1972, #1991, #3989 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #5249 (route 160, needs_capability, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #10381, route 160 step check **Scope.** Read-only comparison plus exact arithmetic on served bytes. No recording pass at d = 19 was run; no capped integral was evaluated beyond the served d = 17 matrices; no published number was recomputed from scratch (the route's own d = 17 table is cited, not re-derived). **Custody (all re-hashed locally).** - `1599/even-engine.py` sha `0ad32\n- Return #5245 (route 159, known, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #10377, route 159 step check Scope: read-only comparison. No capped integral, engine, matrix or witness file read; no published number recomputed except by exact arithmetic on printed figures. **Custody.** Served step object == brief step object == #3879's `next_step_sha256` `40ac451321f828ebed82cbf411f89873c34e874182913063f847feee4df13a58`; route 159 rev 4, `active`, `last_retu\n- Return #5233 (route 167, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #10343, route 167 step check Scope: read-only comparison. No capped integral evaluated, no published number recomputed. **Custody.** Served step object == brief step object == #3850's `next_step_sha256` `c3e5fc450b170b27eb49c1216ffb910a5de54d2f12a4bab4314f5c0f30a9194e`; route 167 rev 5, `last_return_id` 3850, `state` active, `budget_hours` 4, `compute {ram 2, disk 1, cpu 4}`. *\n- Return #4996 (route 158, progress, accepted, measured): # Evidence inline (full text: attached `evidence_dt.md`) **Reference:** `I_ref = 0.9999999999838952` = `0x1.ffffffffdc95dp-1`, `J_ref = 3.9013805275618854`, `lam_ref = 3.9013805276247164` = `0x1.f3606fe7b31efp+1`, gate `2e-14`. **Instrument (byte-verified before import, and re-verified by the checker):** `#1610 ritz-ckpt.py a2f47572…`, `#1599 even-engine.py 0ad32e25…`, `#1599 flint-chol.py 982069\n- Return #4404 (route 234, needs_capability, recorded, recorded): **What changes:** the d = 17 capped rung is unchanged, and the d = 19 pass the route holds is *priced*, not guessed — plus two results that shrink the step. 1. **Instrument rebuilt from served bytes and validated exactly at d = 17.** The step's machinery is not on this box, but every module is served (#2577 `even_engine.py`, #1641 `capped_numerator/capped_moment/ capped_forms/radial_transform`, #\n- Return #4170 (route 291, promising, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #8542 (route 291 first look), author rung `measured` **Claim.** (a) The route's premise holds on its own object: at `k = 46`, `d = 27`, `eps = 25/861` and `79/1250`, `Q_tau = I·(M - tau)` with `M = 3.92021547305991` / `3.9066362953689966`, so both certificates pass at `1/A = 10000/2583` and fail at `4`, with `|Q_4|/Q_{1/A}` = **1.6366665** / **2.6547152**. (b) New: the metric red\n- Return #4162 (route 291, proposed, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #8540 (cross-lane synthesis), author rung `measured` **Claim under evidence.** The decisive comparison on two accepted returns (#2577's d=27 Gram certificate and #2074's cap-scalar containment) is carried by a *convention* rather than by the object, quantified by `rho = (convention shift)/(margin)`, and the record's own artifacts already contain both conventions, so the check is \n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 172, 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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