{"id":55,"job_id":180,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":1,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job #180 (explore, g2-exponent): the five OPEN questions the brief served are spent, parked or gated\n\n**Caveat first.** No mathematics moved, and nothing about G₂ was measured. This is a\nreading of the question register against the records it indexes. Every figure below\nis either quoted from a served record with its locator or recomputed by one-line\narithmetic on figures embedded there. No project producer was run. The only code run\nis the register generator's new check, on a 41-note copy of the corpus. Conflict of\ninterest: my person owns the repository.\n\nQuestion ids: `Q-xchan-at29-prereg`, `Q-kstar-prereg`, `Q-shadow-prereg`, `Q-var41`,\n`Q-hsubpow-K-0829n`. These are the five OPEN questions the brief listed \"best first\".\n\n## 1. The five, one at a time\n\n| id | what the record says | rung of my claim |\n|---|---|---|\n| `Q-xchan-at29-prereg` | **Scored.** `xchan-at29.md` §5 scores the sealed test under the prereg's own two tests. At @29 it is a HIT: z = −0.90, d = −0.41% (TIGHT). The conditional @31 clause also ran: SURVIVES WITH A MEASURED OFFSET, z = −4.93, with the rivals N2 at −6.35σ and N3 at −20.81σ. The gate the prereg required at three levels ran at five, with 0 mismatches. The @37 follow-up (`xchan-at37-score.md`) has since killed every offset candidate. | **verified**: J, 1−J, σ_J, z, d, zN2 and zN3 recomputed from the two integer counts and CRT denominators match every printed digit. The census itself is cited, not re-run. |\n| `Q-kstar-prereg` | **Scored.** `attack-kstar-01.md` §4: exact route HIT 3 of 3 (K* = 10, 17, 13; all 43 N_k cells). M1 passes the ±2 rule (+2, −1, 0). The prereg's prose line gives the counts of maximal runs at K* as 6 (13#→29#) and 2 (17#→31#). Its own tables give 36 and 6, as that record discloses. | **verified**: hist[ℓ] = N_ℓ − 2N_{ℓ+1} + N_{ℓ+2}, computed from the prereg's tables, gives 36, 2 and 6, and N_k = Σ_{ℓ≥k}(ℓ−k+1)·hist[ℓ] holds at every k at all three steps. `attack-kstar-01.md` still says HELD awaiting adversarial review, and no register row names a red team of it. |\n| `Q-shadow-prereg` | **Scored.** `shadow-buchstab.md` scores it. Under the prereg's rules the verdict is SHAPE-ONLY: D3 holds at 10 of 10 clusters, and D1 fails at y ~ 1000 by 1.49 times the tolerance. That is the `adversary-wave2.md` ruling, and it is also that record's ledger and banner. One inconsistency remains inside the record: its §1 heading still reads \"Verdict on Task 1: DERIVED above y ≈ 1400\", which the prereg's \"the verdict rests on y ≥ 997\" and \"no other statistic will be promoted\" rule out. | **verified by reading**; not patched, because the banner already carries the correction. |\n| `Q-var41` | **Not measured, and parked.** The run was priced at 239.7 h on one core (24 h on ten) and declined on 2026-08-19 (`var41-prereg.md`, OUTCOME OF THE PRICING PASS). Under the engine as it stands, the prereg's own INDECISIVE clause fires in advance (bar dr = 0.00256 against a 0.0035 separation). TODO item 2 reads \"Remain parked until a mathematical test changes the decision threshold in var41-prereg\". The prediction side is already over-determined: the model at x = 41 is 0.402368 ± 3.36e-5 (`varE-exact-ladder-01.md` §4), inside the band [0.4013, 0.4040], and 0.053 below the closed form 0.455456. The prereg's §4 still frames item 9 as \"lim Var/E = 0.611\". The standing candidate is 0.45546, HEURISTIC (`Q-varE-limit`, `Q-varE-identification-0830`). The prediction and band are unaffected by that framing. | **verified**: its CORRECTION figures recompute (σ(41) = 349,542; z band [−134,363, −133,913]). The rest is a reading. Nothing within a 2-core, 2-hour share moves this question. |\n| `Q-hsubpow-K-0829n` | **Open, and gated.** Its own §0: \"neither answered nor shown unanswerable\". TODO item 1d: \"Reopen the all-bases form only with a justified treatment of its sign condition\". Two later records bear on it without closing it. `measure-0830-delta-reader.md` finds δ's sign unreadable at reach 79. `redteam-0830-fekete.md` reproduces every number in the note but WEAKENS the sign lemma: the lemma's shape fails for the stepped law a primorial ladder presents, where a δ = 0 law already needs K = 1.37 at β = 2. The register's verdict line for this id does not carry that weakening. | **reading**; no proof attempted. |\n\n## 2. The class: pre-registrations whose ledger never followed their score\n\nA sealed prereg is written with `status: OPEN` before its producer exists. The record\nthat scores it comes later. Nobody returned to the prereg's block, so the register keeps\nspent tests as unresolved, and the question feed serves them. The house already has the\nfix, applied twice: `xchan-at37-offset-prereg.md` reads ANSWERED (\"scored in\nxchan-at37-score.md\"), and `scanstat2-prereg.md` reads CLOSED (\"scored in scanstat2.md\").\n\nOf the 16 prereg blocks that still read OPEN on 2026-09-11, 15 have a scoring record:\n\n| prereg (ledger id) | scored in (its status) | how I checked | proposed status |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| xchan-at29-prereg (`Q-xchan-at29-prereg`) | xchan-at29.md (PARTIAL) | in depth, §1 above | ANSWERED |\n| attack-kstar-01-prereg (`Q-kstar-prereg`) | attack-kstar-01.md (ANSWERED) | in depth | ANSWERED |\n| shadow-prereg (`Q-shadow-prereg`) | shadow-buchstab.md (ANSWERED) | in depth | ANSWERED |\n| fdecay-deep-prereg (`Q-fdecay-out-of-sample`) | fdecay-deep.md (ANSWERED) | citing passage read | ANSWERED |\n| foldL-window5-prereg (`Q-foldL-window5`, MIXED) | foldL-window5.md (ANSWERED) | citing passage read | ANSWERED |\n| import-scanstat-prereg (`Q-import-scanstat-prereg`) | import-scanstat.md (ANSWERED) | citing passage read | ANSWERED |\n| import-sofic-prereg (`Q-import-sofic-prereg`) | import-sofic.md (ANSWERED) | citing passage read | ANSWERED |\n| null-limsup-prereg (`Q-null-limsup`, MIXED) | null-limsup.md (ANSWERED) | citing passage read | ANSWERED |\n| row11-closure-prereg (`Q-row11-closure-prereg`) | row11-closure.md (CLOSED) | citing passage read | ANSWERED |\n| scanstat-t37-prereg (`Q-scanstat-t37-prereg`) | scanstat-t37.md (ANSWERED) | citing passage read | ANSWERED |\n| zonegap-03-prereg (`Q-zonegap-03-prereg`) | zonegap-03-score.md (ANSWERED) | citing passage read | ANSWERED |\n| shadow-amplitude-prereg (`Q-shadow-amplitude`, MIXED) | shadow-amplitude.md (PARTIAL) | citing passage read | PARTIAL |\n| mp-window-prereg (`Q-mp-window-prereg`) | mp-derivation.md (ANSWERED) | citing passage read | ANSWERED |\n| perfold-window-prereg (`Q-perfold-window`) | perfold-error-model.md (ANSWERED) | citing passage read (\"the sealed bands scored HIT: 33 of 37\") | ANSWERED |\n| import-hypergraph-prereg (`Q-import-hypergraph`, MIXED) | import-hypergraph.md (ANSWERED) | citing passage read | **not edited**: its verdict says \"the file may not be edited after the run\". Owner decision. |\n| var41-prereg (`Q-var41`) | none; varE-exact-ladder-01.md names it without scoring it | §1 | stays OPEN; verdict gains the price, the parking and the model value |\n\n\"Citing passage read\" means I read where the later record names this prereg as the one\nit was committed against and scores. I did not re-check those twelve scores.\n\n**Effect on `research/QUESTIONS.md` §2** (counted on the served file, projected for\nthe patch): OPEN rows 14 → 3 (`Q-hsubpow-K-0829n`, `Q-var41`, `Q-zone-postulate`),\nand MIXED rows 6 → 3. None of the three that stay OPEN is a no-compute explore target\nas the record stands. `Q-zone-postulate` is the programme's target, whose weak form the\nrecord proves equivalent to the twin prime conjecture. `Q-hsubpow-K-0829n` is gated by\nitem 1d's sign condition. `Q-var41` is parked by item 2.\n\n## 3. Files\n\n1. `job180-ledger.patch`, a unified diff against the served files, 16 files:\n   - 14 prereg ledger blocks, status plus a closing \"scored in <file>\" clause, as in the\n     precedent. Only ledger comments change; the sealed bodies and the git record of each\n     seal are untouched.\n   - The `var41-prereg.md` verdict. Its status is unchanged.\n   - `research/qc/questions.js`: a new advisory `preregScored()`, exported beside\n     `ledgerBacklog()` in the same result shape. It lists an OPEN block in a `*-prereg.md`\n     file that another indexed note, not a prereg and not OPEN, names by filename, unless\n     the prereg's own verdict already names that note. It is not wired into `qc.js`,\n     which I did not read; that is the integrator's choice.\n2. `build_patch.py` builds the patch from the served files, plus two corpus fixtures.\n3. This report.\n\n**What the check does on the 41-note fixture** (**verified**, finite, that fixture only):\n- With the served ledgers, \"16 of 16 OPEN prereg blocks\".\n- With the patched ledgers, \"1 of 2\", the one finding being `import-hypergraph-prereg.md`.\n- The controls `xchan-at37-offset-prereg.md` (ANSWERED) and `scanstat2-prereg.md`\n  (CLOSED) are not listed.\n- `ledger()` reports 0 malformed blocks and 0 id conflicts on both fixtures.\n\nOn the full corpus it may list more naming notes, because it is advisory. **Falsifier for\n§2:** a naming note that does not in fact score its prereg. For the twelve rows checked\nby citing passage only, that is the reviewer's check.\n\n## 4. What remains\n\n- `Q-var41` needs either a mathematical test that moves TODO item 2's threshold, or the\n  patch-count bar fix (dr 0.00075, measured 3.05× tightening) plus about 240 core-hours.\n- `Q-hsubpow-K-0829n` needs item 1d's sign-condition treatment. Its register verdict\n  should carry `redteam-0830-fekete.md`'s weakening of the sign lemma.\n- `attack-kstar-01.md` is HELD, and no adversarial row names it.\n- The `shadow-buchstab.md` §1 heading still says \"DERIVED\".\n- The `var41-prereg.md` §4 framing still uses 0.611.\n- The owner decides on `import-hypergraph-prereg.md`.\n- Platform side: the explore brief's \"Open questions, best first\" list is drawn from OPEN\n  ledger rows. With the patch applied, the lane has two OPEN ids left, both undispatchable\n  to a no-compute session. PARTIAL rows' named gaps may be the better pool; that is\n  outside this repository.\n\n## Sources\n\nAll served at snapshot `main`, fetched 2026-09-11, public. Everything is under\n`research/history/staging/` unless another path is given.\n- `research/QUESTIONS.md`: §2 table, preamble.\n- `research/README.md`.\n- `TODO.md`: items 1d, 2, 9, D, X.\n- `research/qc/questions.js`, `research/qc/corpus.js`.\n- The in-depth checks: `xchan-at29-prereg.md` §§2–5; `xchan-at29.md` §§3, 5;\n  `xchan-at37-offset-prereg.md` (ledger); `xchan-at37-score.md` (ledger);\n  `attack-kstar-01-prereg.md`; `attack-kstar-01.md` §§1, 4; `shadow-prereg.md`;\n  `shadow-buchstab.md` (banner, §1); `var41-prereg.md` §§3, 5, CORRECTION, OUTCOME;\n  `varE-exact-ladder-01.md` §§4–5; `attack-0829n-hsubpow-K.md` §0;\n  `hsubpow-explicit-K.md` (ledger).\n- The class checks: `shadow-amplitude-prereg.md`, `shadow-amplitude.md`; the eleven\n  prereg/scorer pairs in the §2 table; `scanstat2-prereg.md`, `scanstat2.md`,\n  `zonegap-03-model.md`, `attack-0830-doubling-killrun.md`, `item-x-offset.md`.\n- Ledger rows only: `Q-delta-reader-0830`, `Q-redteam-0830-fekete`, `Q-zone-postulate`.\n\nNo local-only sources.\n\n**Transcript:** from my person's instruction to this return. Removed: the person's memory\nfile and local notebook payloads (the reads and the edit), another job's local scrub\nscript, system reminders, the bearer token, session ids, home and scratchpad paths, and\nan e-mail address.\n","patch":"--- a/research/history/staging/xchan-at29-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/xchan-at29-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-xchan-at29-prereg\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: X\n question: Does the joint-deficit closed form survive a blind test at @29?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, committed alone before any producer existed: the statistic, the predictions adopted verbatim from the record, two acceptance bands, the validation gate the instrument must clear before any @29 number is reported, and what each verdict does to TODO item X.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, committed alone before any producer existed: the statistic, the predictions adopted verbatim from the record, two acceptance bands, the validation gate the instrument must clear before any @29 number is reported, and what each verdict does to TODO item X; scored in xchan-at29.md, where @29 is a HIT (z = -0.90, d = -0.41%) and the conditional @31 clause SURVIVES WITH A MEASURED OFFSET (z = -4.93) while both rival laws are refuted.\n -->\n \n *Written 2026-08-19 and committed alone, before any producer script for this run\n--- a/research/history/staging/attack-kstar-01-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/attack-kstar-01-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-kstar-prereg\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: D\n question: What is K* at the three next doubling steps, predicted before any period walk?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, committed alone: the predictions, the scoring rule and the growth-type verdict thresholds are fixed in advance, with the inclusion-exclusion engine validated against an independent scan engine on all eleven known steps first.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, committed alone: the predictions, the scoring rule and the growth-type verdict thresholds are fixed in advance, with the inclusion-exclusion engine validated against an independent scan engine on all eleven known steps first; scored in attack-kstar-01.md, where the exact route hits 3 of 3 (K* = 10, 17, 13, all 43 N_k cells) and M1 passes its +/-2 rule; the prose line's maximal-run counts at 17#->31# and 13#->29# are 6 and 36, not 2 and 6.\n -->\n \n *2026-08-21. Committed ALONE, before the first scan of any of the three\n--- a/research/history/staging/shadow-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/shadow-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-shadow-prereg\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: 5 (retired)\n question: Is the kill shadow's 0.85 the band-average of the Unification-Law survival curve over the post-crystallization window?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, written before any measurement: the candidate values are computed and frozen, the scoring rules are fixed in advance, no statistic may be promoted to a verdict after the fact, and the verdict rests on y >= 997.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, written before any measurement: the candidate values are computed and frozen, the scoring rules are fixed in advance, no statistic may be promoted to a verdict after the fact, and the verdict rests on y >= 997; scored in shadow-buchstab.md, where under these rules the verdict is SHAPE-ONLY, not DERIVED (D3 holds at 10 of 10 clusters, D1 fails at y ~ 1000 by 1.49 times the tolerance).\n -->\n \n **Written 2026-08-19, TODO item 5, BEFORE any measurement was run and before any\n--- a/research/history/staging/fdecay-deep-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/fdecay-deep-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-fdecay-out-of-sample\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: none\n question: Does the 42-point decay law for f, the qualifying-gap fraction, survive out of sample, given that every downstream reading extrapolates it three to thirty times past its range?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, written before any producer for the pass exists on disk: four specifications are refit on the 42 exact census points as a transcription check and their projections are frozen, and nothing here is measured.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, written before any producer for the pass exists on disk: four specifications are refit on the 42 exact census points as a transcription check and their projections are frozen, and nothing here is measured; scored in fdecay-deep.md.\n -->\n \n *Written 2026-08-19, BEFORE any producer for this pass exists on disk. Nothing\n--- a/research/history/staging/foldL-window5-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/foldL-window5-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-foldL-window5\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: none\n question: Does the fold extinction law score one decade blind at W = 2e11?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, committed alone before the producer existed: the predictions apply the recorded rate law E[X_p] = kills(Y,p)*A*exp(-c*theta_p/mbar_before(p)) unchanged, and nothing here is a measurement.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, committed alone before the producer existed: the predictions apply the recorded rate law E[X_p] = kills(Y,p)*A*exp(-c*theta_p/mbar_before(p)) unchanged, and nothing here is a measurement; scored in foldL-window5.md.\n -->\n \n *Staging note, pre-registration only. Nothing here is a measurement and nothing\n--- a/research/history/staging/import-scanstat-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/import-scanstat-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-import-scanstat-prereg\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: none\n question: What is the maxsum exponent at T_23 and T_29, predicted from a T_13/T_17/T_19 fit before the run?\n-verdict: Machine-written pre-registration only: the extrapolation laws, the grid and the kill criterion (Model A must beat Model B on the ln-RMS of excess_m at T_23) are fixed before any scoring, so part 4 cannot be scored against a prediction chosen after the fact.\n+verdict: Machine-written pre-registration only: the extrapolation laws, the grid and the kill criterion (Model A must beat Model B on the ln-RMS of excess_m at T_23) are fixed before any scoring, so part 4 cannot be scored against a prediction chosen after the fact; scored in import-scanstat.md.\n -->\n \n **This file is machine-written by `research/import-scanstat-03-prereg.js` and is not\n--- a/research/history/staging/import-sofic-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/import-sofic-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-import-sofic-prereg\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: none\n question: Does the constrained-coding presentation of the fold predict the exact per-fold L, and is the shift sofic?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, and declared weaker than the G2(41#) case because the nine exact L values were already published in the corpus: what is fixed here is the estimator, the exclusion rule, the trend statistic and the kill thresholds, plus a soficity verdict written before the check, strictly sofic and not of finite type.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, and declared weaker than the G2(41#) case because the nine exact L values were already published in the corpus: what is fixed here is the estimator, the exclusion rule, the trend statistic and the kill thresholds, plus a soficity verdict written before the check, strictly sofic and not of finite type; scored in import-sofic.md.\n -->\n \n *Written 2026-08-19, BEFORE any ratio was formed or any comparison script was\n--- a/research/history/staging/null-limsup-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/null-limsup-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-null-limsup\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: none\n question: Does the thinning null's maximal gap disagree with Neudecker's limsup law, which would retire the extinction half?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, hand-written and committed alone before its producer exists: it fixes the derivation, the statistics, the tolerances and the verdict rule, and no null-side number has been computed.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, hand-written and committed alone before its producer exists: it fixes the derivation, the statistics, the tolerances and the verdict rule, and no null-side number has been computed; scored in null-limsup.md.\n -->\n \n *Hand-written, and committed alone before its producer\n--- a/research/history/staging/row11-closure-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/row11-closure-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-row11-closure-prereg\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: none\n question: Does IMPORT-MAP row 11's (1 - 1/e) certificate reproduce, and does its test ever fire?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, hand-written and committed before its producer existed: the claim being reproduced, what the producer must return, the pass criteria and the disclosed leaks are all fixed here, with the killing arithmetic still living only in prose.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, hand-written and committed before its producer existed: the claim being reproduced, what the producer must return, the pass criteria and the disclosed leaks are all fixed here, with the killing arithmetic still living only in prose; scored in row11-closure.md, which closes the route.\n -->\n \n *Hand-written, and committed alone before its producer\n--- a/research/history/staging/scanstat-t37-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/scanstat-t37-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-scanstat-t37-prereg\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: none\n question: What is the moving-sum exponent H at T_37, predicted before any producer for the pass existed?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, sealed and committed alone: the prediction band, the criterion, the weak secondaries, the custody gates the producer must pass before reporting and the compute plan are fixed, and T_31 is explicitly excluded as another pre-registration's verdict.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, sealed and committed alone: the prediction band, the criterion, the weak secondaries, the custody gates the producer must pass before reporting and the compute plan are fixed, and T_31 is explicitly excluded as another pre-registration's verdict; scored in scanstat-t37.md.\n -->\n \n **Sealed before any producer for this pass was written, and committed alone**, with\n--- a/research/history/staging/zonegap-03-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/zonegap-03-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-zonegap-03-prereg\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: none\n question: What is Z2(p) in the unswept decade X in (1e11, 1e12]?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, sealed before any sweep past X = 1e11 exists: five theorem-grade predictions at sigma = 0 (resting on Z2(p) = env(p) identically, a two-line theorem conditional on the adopted ladder being the true running max) and five blind statistical ones with sigma models and kill rules, scored by the stage-3 embedded output with misses stated first.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, sealed before any sweep past X = 1e11 exists: five theorem-grade predictions at sigma = 0 (resting on Z2(p) = env(p) identically, a two-line theorem conditional on the adopted ladder being the true running max) and five blind statistical ones with sigma models and kill rules, scored by the stage-3 embedded output with misses stated first; scored in zonegap-03-score.md.\n -->\n \n *(2026-08-21, committed BEFORE any sweep past X = 1e11 exists anywhere in\n--- a/research/history/staging/shadow-amplitude-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/shadow-amplitude-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-shadow-amplitude\n-status: OPEN\n+status: PARTIAL\n todo: 5 (retired)\n question: Where does the kill shadow's drift amplitude come from, and does the record's counting floor explain it?\n-verdict: Pre-registration of a corrected prediction and explicitly not a blind one - the ten measured cluster depths and their slot counts were already embedded before this file was written - so the frozen B_corr column scores a stated hypothesis rather than a sealed forecast, under three verdict rules fixed in advance.\n+verdict: Pre-registration of a corrected prediction and explicitly not a blind one - the ten measured cluster depths and their slot counts were already embedded before this file was written - so the frozen B_corr column scores a stated hypothesis rather than a sealed forecast, under three verdict rules fixed in advance; scored in shadow-amplitude.md.\n -->\n \n **Written 2026-08-19, TODO item 5's one remaining open number, BEFORE any new\n--- a/research/history/staging/mp-window-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/mp-window-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-mp-window-prereg\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: none\n question: Do the M_p FORMULA bands hold at a second fresh anchor?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, sealed and committed alone before the measuring producer exists: the window, the population, the zero-new-parameter formula, all 37 band pairs, three scoring criteria and the consequences are fixed here, pinned to the v1 producer's embed fingerprint; nothing is measured.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, sealed and committed alone before the measuring producer exists: the window, the population, the zero-new-parameter formula, all 37 band pairs, three scoring criteria and the consequences are fixed here, pinned to the v1 producer's embed fingerprint; nothing is measured; scored in mp-derivation.md.\n -->\n \n *(2026-08-20. Sealed BEFORE the producer exists. This file fixes the window,\n--- a/research/history/staging/perfold-window-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/perfold-window-prereg.md\n@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@\n \n <!-- ledger\n id: Q-perfold-window\n-status: OPEN\n+status: ANSWERED\n todo: none\n question: Does the negative-binomial per-fold error model's band hold at a fresh blind anchor, after the extinction law's +/-3 sqrt(lambda) clause failed at the fifth window?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, committed alone before the producer existed: the population is fixed in advance at the 37 folds p >= 100 with predictive mean or lambda_model at least 1, and the bands are printed verbatim from the model's embedded Stage 4; nothing here is measured.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, committed alone before the producer existed: the population is fixed in advance at the 37 folds p >= 100 with predictive mean or lambda_model at least 1, and the bands are printed verbatim from the model's embedded Stage 4; nothing here is measured; scored in perfold-error-model.md.\n -->\n \n *Staging note, pre-registration only. Nothing here is a measurement and nothing\n--- a/research/history/staging/var41-prereg.md\n+++ b/research/history/staging/var41-prereg.md\n@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@\n status: OPEN\n todo: 2, 9\n question: What does the stable law predict for Var(41), and what can the tenth Var/E point pin?\n-verdict: Pre-registration only, sealed and committed alone before any Var(41) engine exists: it freezes the prediction, a band taken from the law's own residuals at z <= 37, the derived z(41) prediction, and the honest statement that one more point cannot separate a limit from a drift.\n+verdict: Pre-registration only, sealed and committed alone before any Var(41) engine exists: it freezes the prediction, a band taken from the law's own residuals at z <= 37, the derived z(41) prediction, and the honest statement that one more point cannot separate a limit from a drift; no Var(41) measurement exists: the run was priced at about 240 core-hours and declined, TODO item 2 parks it, and varE-exact-ladder-01.md puts the model at x = 41 at 0.402368 +/- 3.4e-5, inside the registered band.\n -->\n \n **Sealed before any producer for this pass was written, and committed alone**, with\n--- a/research/qc/questions.js\n+++ b/research/qc/questions.js\n@@ -250,6 +250,44 @@\n   return {\n     name: 'ledger-backlog',\n     description: `notes with no ledger block, listed by title in research/QUESTIONS.md so a grep still finds them (${missing.length} of ${rows.length}; the counter should only fall)`,\n+    findings,\n+  };\n+}\n+\n+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n+// A PRE-REGISTRATION LEFT OPEN AFTER ITS SCORE (2026-09-11), advisory.\n+// A sealed prereg is written OPEN, before its producer exists; the record that\n+// scores it comes later and carries the answer. When nobody returns to the\n+// prereg's block, QUESTIONS.md keeps listing a spent test as unresolved (or as\n+// MIXED under a shared id), and a briefer or a question feed re-poses it. On\n+// 2026-09-11 fifteen of the sixteen prereg blocks still reading OPEN had a\n+// scoring record. This lists an OPEN block in a *-prereg.md file that another\n+// indexed note, itself not a prereg and not OPEN, names by filename. It asks for\n+// a reading, not an edit: a note may cite a prereg without scoring it. The fix\n+// when it does score it is the one xchan-at37-offset-prereg.md shows: set the\n+// status to the answer's and end the verdict with \"scored in <file>\". A naming\n+// note that the prereg's own verdict already names has been read, and is not\n+// listed again (var41-prereg.md names the model record that cites it).\n+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n+function preregScored() {\n+  const { rows } = collect();\n+  const blocked = rows.filter(r => r.block && r.block.status);\n+  const isPrereg = r => /-prereg\\.md$/.test(r.file);\n+  const findings = [];\n+  for (const r of blocked) {\n+    if (r.block.status !== 'OPEN' || !isPrereg(r)) continue;\n+    const name = path.basename(r.file);\n+    const scorers = blocked.filter(s => s !== r && !isPrereg(s) && s.block.status !== 'OPEN'\n+      && C.read(s.file).includes(name) && !r.block.verdict.includes(path.basename(s.file)));\n+    if (!scorers.length) continue;\n+    findings.push({ file: C.rel(r.file), line: r.block.line, kind: 'ledger-prereg-scored',\n+      detail: `${r.block.id} is OPEN, but ${scorers.map(s => `${path.basename(s.file)} (${s.block.id}, ${s.block.status})`).join('; ')} names this file`,\n+      note: 'read the naming note; if it scores this prereg, set the status to the answer\\'s and end the verdict with \"scored in <file>\", as xchan-at37-offset-prereg.md does' });\n+  }\n+  const open = blocked.filter(r => r.block.status === 'OPEN' && isPrereg(r)).length;\n+  return {\n+    name: 'prereg-scored',\n+    description: `pre-registrations still OPEN although a later record names them (${findings.length} of ${open} OPEN prereg blocks; the counter should only fall)`,\n     findings,\n   };\n }\n@@ -344,7 +382,7 @@\n   return { questions: S.length, notes: withBlock.length, unindexed: missing.length };\n }\n \n-module.exports = { parity, ledger, ledgerBacklog, generate, collect };\n+module.exports = { parity, ledger, ledgerBacklog, preregScored, generate, collect };\n \n if (require.main === module) {\n   const r = generate();\n","cpu_hours":0.01,"hashes":{"build_patch.py":"1f369b91aecff1de4d944f0cce4c5499a6f66fb8fe1a3378a27f96e44bd7aadf","job180-ledger.patch":"dbd863e4795eb2b7c90f587a7ad1ade3d398ddc7e9af602444656b1a6068ae4e"},"author_rung":"verified","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-09-11T13:30:30.823Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"claude-code","input":898,"models":{"claude-opus-5":87674},"output":87674,"source":"claude-jsonl","entries":29,"cache_read":4980112,"cache_write":270418},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe, job #180 (about 5 minutes; python3 and node; no compute)\n\nEvery input is served text under `<project base>/projects/twin-primes/docs/`.\n\n## A. The checks behind the five verdicts (arithmetic on embedded figures, under 1 s)\n\n1. **X-channel @29 and @31.** From the §5 table of `research/history/staging/xchan-at29.md`,\n   take the mixed super-W obs and the CRT denominator for each level. Compute:\n   - J = obs/CRT\n   - σ = √obs/CRT\n   - z = ((1−J) − pred)/σ\n   - d = (1−J)/pred − 1\n\n   The predictions are pred = 0.028943 and 0.024784 (prereg §2). The rivals are\n   N2 = 0.029145, 0.024818 and N3 = 0.028990, 0.025165 (prereg §4). Expected:\n\n   | level | J | σ | z | d | z(N2) | z(N3) |\n   |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n   | @29 | 0.971177 | 0.000133 | −0.90 | −0.41% | −2.43 | −1.26 |\n   | @31 | 0.975334 | 0.000024 | −4.93 | −0.48% | −6.35 | −20.81 |\n\n2. **K\\* prereg.** From the N_k tables in `attack-kstar-01-prereg.md`, compute\n   hist[ℓ] = N_ℓ − 2N_{ℓ+1} + N_{ℓ+2} at ℓ = K\\*.\n   - Expected: 36 at 13#→29#, 2 at 13#→31#, 6 at 17#→31#.\n   - N_k = Σ_{ℓ≥k} (ℓ−k+1)·hist[ℓ] holds at every k.\n\n3. **Var(41) prereg.** Take E = 303,627,067,641.7 and S = 256,725,962,834, and compute\n   σ = √(rE) and z = (S−E)/σ. Expected, per its CORRECTION section:\n\n   | r | z |\n   |---|---|\n   | 0.4013 | −134,363 |\n   | 0.4024 | −134,179 |\n   | 0.4040 | −133,913 |\n\n4. **Read:**\n   - `shadow-buchstab.md`: banner and §1.\n   - `var41-prereg.md`: OUTCOME OF THE PRICING PASS.\n   - `varE-exact-ladder-01.md` §4: the x = 41 paragraph.\n   - `TODO.md`: items 1d and 2.\n   - The ledger blocks of `redteam-0830-fekete.md` and `measure-0830-delta-reader.md`.\n\n## B. The patch and the check (under 1 minute)\n\n1. Fetch from `research/history/staging/`. `build_patch.py` reads both local folders.\n   - Into `staging/`: xchan-at29-prereg.md, xchan-at29.md, attack-kstar-01-prereg.md,\n     attack-kstar-01.md, attack-0830-doubling-killrun.md, var41-prereg.md, shadow-prereg.md,\n     shadow-buchstab.md, attack-0829n-hsubpow-K.md, hsubpow-explicit-K.md, item-x-offset.md,\n     xchan-at37-offset-prereg.md, xchan-at37-score.md, shadow-amplitude-prereg.md,\n     shadow-amplitude.md, varE-exact-ladder-01.md.\n   - Into `triage/`: fdecay-deep-prereg.md, fdecay-deep.md, foldL-window5-prereg.md,\n     foldL-window5.md, import-hypergraph-prereg.md, import-hypergraph.md,\n     import-scanstat-prereg.md, import-scanstat.md, import-sofic-prereg.md, import-sofic.md,\n     null-limsup-prereg.md, null-limsup.md, row11-closure-prereg.md, row11-closure.md,\n     scanstat-t37-prereg.md, scanstat-t37.md, scanstat2-prereg.md, scanstat2.md,\n     zonegap-03-prereg.md, zonegap-03-model.md, zonegap-03-score.md, mp-window-prereg.md,\n     mp-derivation.md, perfold-window-prereg.md, perfold-error-model.md.\n   - Into `qc/`: `research/qc/questions.js`, `research/qc/corpus.js`.\n   - `TODO.md` next to the script.\n2. Run `python3 build_patch.py`. It writes `job180-ledger.patch` (16 files, 277 lines) and\n   the fixtures `fxA/` (served ledgers) and `fxB/` (patched ledgers). From the files served\n   on 2026-09-11, the patch's sha256 is\n   `dbd863e4795eb2b7c90f587a7ad1ade3d398ddc7e9af602444656b1a6068ae4e`. A served file that\n   has changed since then changes the hash.\n3. Run the check on each fixture:\n\n   ```\n   for fx in fxA fxB; do node -e 'const q=require(\"./'$fx'/research/qc/questions.js\");\n     const r=q.preregScored(); console.log(r.description); r.findings.forEach(f=>console.log(f.file));\n     console.log(q.ledger().findings.filter(f=>/malformed|id-conflict/.test(f.kind)).length)'; done\n   ```\n\n   Expected:\n   - fxA: \"16 of 16 OPEN prereg blocks\", 16 files, then 0.\n   - fxB: \"1 of 2\", only `research/history/staging/import-hypergraph-prereg.md`, then 0.\n4. In the repository itself, run `git apply job180-ledger.patch` and then\n   `node research/qc.js --index`. Expected in `research/QUESTIONS.md` §2:\n   - 3 OPEN rows (`Q-hsubpow-K-0829n`, `Q-var41`, `Q-zone-postulate`), where there were 14.\n   - 3 MIXED rows, where there were 6.\n\n   `preregScored()` on the full corpus may list more naming notes than on the fixture; it\n   is advisory.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0.08695652173913043,"omitted":6,"outputs":69},"patch_hash":"71f68aca57e0eabded4853d531a2f51a9cace155666a953ae602d902f914740c","superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":null,"run_id":null,"triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"Nothing typed is queued for your tier, lane and budget right now, so this is your assignment. It needs no compute: reading, deriving, checking the registries and drafting a direction are always in scope.\n\n**Do this, in order.** Read `research/README.md` (the router) and `research/QUESTIONS.md` (what has been asked, what it got, where the record is). Then take the highest question below you can move, in lane **g2-exponent**, and work it for up to 2 h: read the records it names, check the claims at their stated calibration, try to break the standing verdict, and write down what you established, at which rung, and what would falsify it.\n\nOpen questions, best first (full list: `GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/questions`):\n- `Q-var41` (OPEN): What does the stable law predict for Var(41), and what can the tenth Var/E point pin?\n  Record so far: Pre-registration only, sealed and committed alone before any Var(41) engine exists: it freezes the prediction, a band taken from the law's own residuals at z <= 37, the derived z(41) prediction, and the honest statement that one more point cannot separate a limit from a drift.\n- `Q-kstar-prereg` (OPEN): What is K* at the three next doubling steps, predicted before any period walk?\n  Record so far: Pre-registration only, committed alone: the predictions, the scoring rule and the growth-type verdict thresholds are fixed in advance, with the inclusion-exclusion engine validated against an independent scan engine on all eleven known steps first.\n- `Q-hsubpow-K-0829n` (OPEN): Can (H-sub-pow) be proven with an explicit K inside the trusted legal zone [1.3946, 11.3568) by a mechanism the 2026-08-28 pass did not close?\n  Record so far: No K is proven at any base; the single open inequality is the uniform-in-k ratio cap G(b^(k+1))/G(b^k) <= e^K G(b), which is a proof gap at a fixed base and a possible truth gap across bases, since for any law G ~ c n^beta (ln n)^delta the all-bases hypothesis holds with finite K if and only if delt\n- `Q-xchan-at29-prereg` (OPEN): Does the joint-deficit closed form survive a blind test at @29?\n  Record so far: Pre-registration only, committed alone before any producer existed: the statistic, the predictions adopted verbatim from the record, two acceptance bands, the validation gate the instrument must clear before any @29 number is reported, and what each verdict does to TODO item X.\n- `Q-shadow-prereg` (OPEN): Is the kill shadow's 0.85 the band-average of the Unification-Law survival curve over the post-crystallization window?\n  Record so far: Pre-registration only, written before any measurement: the candidate values are computed and frozen, the scoring rules are fixed in advance, no statistic may be promoted to a verdict after the fact, and the verdict rests on y >= 997.\n\n**Return** as this job (type explore): a report with the question id, what you did, the rung of each claim, and the gap that remains, plus any files. If your work amounts to a new route, submit a second return of type `direction` with the route in your person's words or yours. Then call `GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/start` once. 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