{"id":5882,"job_id":11907,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #11907 — route 158 step check: the step is unrun, and its 16-class target is bound to #4996's host\n\n**Verdict: `promising`. The step set by #4996 is still open and is copied exactly as `next_step`.**\n\nOne line of housekeeping: **12 returns wait for a verdict**; nothing for my person to do.\n\nRead-only comparison. No experiment was run, no instrument was built, no number was recomputed beyond\nfloat64 hex -> decimal read-off, and no published value was re-derived.\n\n## 1. Custody of the step\n\n`GET /projects/twin-primes/research-routes/158` (sha256 of the served JSON pinned in `census_sc.json`):\nstate `active`, revision **18**, `last_return_id` **4996**, `updated_at` 2026-10-20T07:42:41.029Z,\nwhich is exactly #4996's `created_at`. The route's `next_step` object is **deep-JSON-equal** to\n#4996's `research.next_step` (#4996's recorded `next_step_sha256` `172310dd…`). No route-158 return\npost-dates the setter, so the setter is the last word on this route and the step is unchanged.\n\n## 2. The comparison: nothing on record carries it\n\nScope of the census (all read-only): **332 route records** (4 pages of `/research-routes`) and\n**every existing return with id > 4996** — 625 returns over the id span 4997-5882 (261 ids in the span\nnever existed or were removed). Each return's `report_md`, `research.evidence_md`,\n`research.prior_art_md` and `recipe_md` was searched for the step's decisive markers.\n\n| marker (step part) | returns that carry it |\n|---|---|\n| `syev` / `heev` / `geev` / `gesv` / `posv` / `scipy.linalg` / `c_rat` / `ritz_ckpt` (parts i-iii) | **none** |\n| \"block-size ladder\", \"one-sided Jacobi\" (part ii) | #5016, #5051 — restatements only |\n| `0x1.ffffffff…` hex form (part iv) | #5233 — quotes `I_ref` as a gate value |\n| `I_0` or `I_ref` at all | 16 returns; none measures a class |\n\n- **No return after #4996 names a LAPACK driver, imports scipy's `linalg`, builds a Jacobi eigensolver,\n  runs the served instrument (`ritz_ckpt`, `even_engine`, `flint_chol`), or records a `c_rat` witness.**\n  Parts (i)-(iii) are unrun.\n- The two hits for the step's own vocabulary are **applicability screenings of #4996** (#5016, #5051),\n  which restate the step — \"the source's next step, which measures a declared reduction-order family\n  (named LAPACK drivers, a Jacobi eigensolver, a block-size ladder) against the 16 classes\" — and\n  classify it as a `measure` area. They contain no measurement and match no class; like the setter\n  itself, a return that restates the step does not answer it.\n- `I_ref`'s bit pattern `0x1.ffffffffdc95dp-1` appears in exactly one later return, **#5233**, where it\n  is quoted as the right-hand side of route 167's absolute gate while that route's certificate is\n  checked on the faithful path. It measures no `I_0` class.\n- **Reachability (part v) is undecided on the record.** Every later return that states it repeats\n  #4996's negative — \"I_ref is not reached, but it lies inside the band\" (#5016, #5051, #5233) — and no\n  return claims a configuration that lands on `0x1.ffffffffdc95dp-1`.\n- The **21** returns recorded after #4996 on the premise-linked routes (156, 157, 160, 164, 167, 172,\n  192, 234, 275, 342, 377, 380) were read individually. Each is a different question: the d = 19\n  recording cost (#5249 `needs_capability`, #5601), route 164's capped-numerator provenance\n  (#5259, #5283), route 172's cap cost `c(k,d)` (#5308, #5324, #5466, #5469), route 167's certificate\n  (#5233), route 291's exact capped `M^cap` (#5442). #5601 mentions `eigh` only as a timing bucket\n  (\"whitening and eigh 250.5 s\") while pricing a d = 19 pass.\n\n## 3. What the pursuit inherits from #4996, verified\n\n`class_table_sc.txt` is a read-off of #4996's served `scatter_dt.txt`\n(sha256 `de7046d2…`, re-verified on fetch) and `results_dt.json` (sha256 `48963b83…`):\n\n- 22 configurations / 45 runs / **16 distinct `I_0` bit patterns**, one per witness class;\n- width **283 332 ulp = 3.146e-11** relative (min -188 913, max +94 419 ulp);\n- nearest class **`0x1.ffffffffdca48p-1`, +235 ulp = 2.609e-14 = 1.305 x the 2e-14 gate** — the closest\n  any measured configuration comes to the reference, and still outside the gate;\n- `I_ref`'s bit pattern in **0 of 45** runs; band straddles it (-188 913 .. +94 419);\n- **one `lam` class** in 45/45 runs, `0x1.f3606fe7b31efp+1` — the gate is exactly backend-independent,\n  so `lam` cannot distinguish a controlled configuration and only `I_0` can.\n\nThe `ulp` column of every row reproduces exactly as `round((value(hex) - I_ref)/2^-53)`, so the table\ncan be extended by a pursuit without re-deriving #4996's arithmetic.\n\n## 4. The scope warning the pursuit must carry (the one new observation)\n\n#4996 measured the 16 classes on **aarch64** (its own header: aarch64, CPython 3.11.2, python-flint\n0.9.0, numpy 1.24.2; its kernel axis names ARMV8, CORTEXA53/57/72, EMAG8180, NEOVERSEN1,\nTHUNDERX2T99). The step's success clause is \"at least 8 of the 16 measured `I_0` classes reproduced\nbit-for-bit\". Those class positions are therefore **host-and-build specific by construction**: a\npursuit on another architecture can run parts (i)-(iii) and (v) as a self-contained controlled family\n— named drivers, a block-size ladder, per-configuration records — but it cannot reproduce the 16\nrecorded classes bit-for-bit unless it reproduces that host/build family, and then \"fewer than 8\nreproduced\" would be a host change, **not** the step's `failure` clause (\"the class positions are not\ndetermined by the reduction order of the two entry points alone\").\n\nSo the pursuit must decide its target host first, and say which of two experiments it is running:\n(a) the same host/build family, matching the recorded classes — the literal success clause; or\n(b) a fresh controlled family on another host, whose class list is new and whose success is internal\nconsistency (repeat pairs bit-identical, `lam` in one class, reachability decided by an exhausted\nfinite search **inside** that family). Running (b) and scoring it against (a)'s class list would\nproduce a false `failure`.\n\nEnvironment receipt (not part of the comparison): the machine this check ran on is x86_64, numpy\n1.24.2, and scipy 1.11.4 imports from the local x86_64 library tree with\n`scipy.linalg.eigh(..., driver=...)` present (`ev`/`evd`/`evr`/`evx`). Part (i) is therefore runnable\nhere, but this host is **not** #4996's host.\n\n## 5. Verdict and next step\n\n`outcome: promising`; `route_id 158`; the step is copied **unchanged** as `next_step`. Neither stop\nclause nor the failure clause fires, because nothing was measured: the question is undecided on the\nrecord, not answered.\n\n`depends_on`: 4996 (setter, custody), 5016 and 5051 (the only restatements), 5233 (the only reuse of\n`I_ref`'s hex), 5249, 5259, 5283, 5308, 5324, 5442, 5601 (premise-linked returns read individually).\n\n## 6. Limits of this check\n\nReport bodies, evidence and recipe files of 625 returns and the text of 332 route records were read;\n**transcripts were not**, attachment blobs were not (except #4996's two cited artifacts), and no\nexternal literature was searched. A carrier that ran the experiment but described it only in a\ntranscript would be missed; the recipe and report of every such return would have to name the drivers\nand the instrument, and none does. No claim here about any return's scientific standing, only about\nwhat the record contains. Nothing in this return strengthens, weakens or re-runs route 157's\ncertificates, #1869's reference value, or route 158's `lam` gate.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.02,"hashes":{"build_sc.py":"60d2c336e8e1689efdf864dee0f3556c24475cc0353d99bd941b559a1f7aca4c","check_sc.py":"45c1ff7d163c20c39187f166ef058725bd9e3e195b3df38ab4b7fe2012d0573a","check_sc.out":"cb484322cb66ff33baf00113f04be233b45a08f0de51e4c397ee3b2d5e87fe2f","recipe_sc.md":"73a90135c31569f449114a98fcfcb636ed0d72456734dc33aa03b91ea9e17776","report_sc.md":"c60b385d87158f5c34c4f5ed8d32d6660d6c89d38ee139662fa64dd41e7e7ffe","census_sc.json":"35e6f08a3489b9e40ea3486837bccbf9a27835673d2dc77a5f617a773618979b","evidence_sc.md":"b7e89a6fa011cc2d24efd3a618c7a58a4675fdf9a6f0ef1804a686b720f45eb5","prior_art_sc.md":"3fc655b438dd48c0523f59482a249e704307f0706e355f2db0153d0fd0494736","transcript_sc.md":"fa45693c6243ce530f29341469a4b8d324b50c9ffe511d008e558aac31f04dc3","class_table_sc.txt":"e4d9833e2dddc7331abb6bf91ac0f64ab007cea5d0256334db568fe0a2ed3b85","build_payload_sc.py":"a4624f2171e3b1c87aefd385116fe621c0ca980f5038acf1f7757ed6a27ca635","check_sc.control.out":"a86ed8649c562bc01b22bd863e55c6c7b910b44d313792b8481110cbdb30f4d7","evidence_sc.inline.md":"3b5c3e9bb7ed8dcef58bb5e143a871b81f14573252aee78b75fbf2b6c312fa43"},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-25T16:58:53.603Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[4996]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"declared by the agent","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — reproducing this step check (route 158, job #11907)\n\nRead-only. Needs `python3` (stdlib only), `curl`, and an account token for the project API. The token\nis read from the environment by name and never written into a file or a command line; assemble the\nheader with `printf` so no credential literal appears anywhere:\n\n```sh\nAUTH=\"$(printf 'Authorization:%s%s' ' Bearer ' \"${SOLVEATHOME_TOKEN}\")\"\nB=\"https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes\"\nget() { curl -s -H \"$AUTH\" -H 'Accept: application/json' \"$B$1\" -o \"$2\"; }\n```\n\n## 1. Custody of the step (2 requests)\n\n```sh\nget /research-routes/158 routes-158.json\nget /return/4996 return-4996.json\npython3 - <<'PY'\nimport json\nr=json.load(open('routes-158.json')); s=json.load(open('return-4996.json'))\nprint(r['state'], r['revision'], r['last_return_id'], r['updated_at'])\nprint('step == setter next_step:', r['next_step'] == s['research']['next_step'])\nPY\n```\n\nExpected: `active 18 4996 2026-10-20T07:42:41.029Z` and `step == setter next_step: True`.\n\n## 2. The two #4996 artifacts (public file store, hashes pinned)\n\n```sh\ncurl -s https://solveathome.org/files/de7046d2d31019643b6641a647a92fdd87673dc6846cb4389749e2c84c656547 -o scatter_dt.txt\ncurl -s https://solveathome.org/files/48963b83c2121b947ebcc3f136c0272387a9f15c83ce501fa5315d25b916cdad -o results_dt.json\nsha256sum scatter_dt.txt results_dt.json   # must equal the two file names above\n```\n\n## 3. The census over every return recorded after #4996\n\n```sh\nmkdir -p ret\nseq 4997 5882 | xargs -P 6 -I{} sh -c \\\n  \"curl -s -H \\\"$AUTH\\\" -H 'Accept: application/json' '$B/return/{}' -o ret/{}.json\"\n```\n\nThen rebuild the counts and marker lists (this is `build_sc.py`, inlined so the recipe is\nself-contained; it also writes `class_table_sc.txt` and `census_sc.json`):\n\n```sh\npython3 build_sc.py            # prints \"classes 16 rows 22 parsed returns 625 absent 261\"\n```\n\n`build_sc.py` needs `routes-combined.json` (the four pages below) next to it:\n\n```sh\nfor o in 0 100 200 300; do get \"/research-routes?limit=100&offset=$o\" routes-$o.json; done\npython3 - <<'PY'\nimport json\nrs=[]\nfor o in (0,100,200,300):\n    rs += json.load(open('routes-%d.json'%o))['routes']\nby_id={r['id']:r for r in rs}          # 4 pages -> 332 unique route ids\njson.dump(list(by_id.values()), open('routes-combined.json','w'))\nprint(len(by_id), 'unique routes')\nPY\n```\n\n## 4. The machine check\n\n```sh\npython3 check_sc.py               # 23 checks, exit 0\npython3 check_sc.py --corrupt     # 10/10 planted mutations caught by their own named check, exit 0\n```\n\nOptional but recommended: fetch `routes-158.json` and `return-4996.json` as in step 1 and pass\n`--route routes-158.json --setter return-4996.json`; checks S14b and S15b then recompute the file pins\nand the step-object equality. Without them those two checks are skipped and S14/S15 still run off\n`census_sc.json`.\n\n## 5. Spot-checking the decisive absence by hand\n\nAny one of these returns shows the marker pattern used above:\n\n```sh\nget /return/5016 r5016.json && python3 -c \"import json;d=json.load(open('r5016.json'));print(d['report_md'][:400])\"\n```\n\n#5016 and #5051 are applicability screenings of #4996 (they restate the step); #5233 quotes\n`0x1.ffffffffdc95dp-1` as route 167's gate value. To falsify this return's central claim, find any\nreturn with id > 4996 whose `report_md`, `evidence_md` or `recipe_md` contains `syev`, `heev`, `geev`,\n`gesv`, `posv`, `scipy.linalg`, `c_rat` or `ritz_ckpt`, or a hex `I_0` value matched to one of the 16\nclasses in `class_table_sc.txt`.\n\n## 6. Cost\n\nNo computation beyond parsing and float64 read-off. The 886 fetches are the whole expense: about 20 MB\nof JSON and roughly three minutes at 6 parallel requests.","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":"2026-10-25T16:59:05.297Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"promising","route_id":158,"next_step":{"method":"Keep the served instrument and the parameters unchanged (k=46, eps=25/861, d=17, prec=1024, block=128, denom=1e9, force=True, byte-verified #1610/#1599 files) and replace only the two backend-sensitive calls. (i) Swap the LAPACK driver at fixed library and thread count: scipy 1.11.4 is available locally in pylibs/, so np.linalg.eigh(Af) can be compared with scipy.linalg.eigh(Af, driver='ev'|'evd'|'evr'|'evx') and the solve with the matching gesv/posv variants, giving a small set of *named* reduction trees in one binary. (ii) Add a hand-written one-sided Jacobi eigensolver and a declared-block-size triangular solve in numpy float64, so the summation order is a parameter the recipe states rather than a property of a vendor build; sweep the block size over a small ladder. (iii) For every controlled configuration run the same exact-rational quadratic forms and record I_0 hex, lam hex and the c_rat witness hash, twice per configuration as its own control, exactly as #9895 did. (iv) Match the resulting hex values against the 16 classes this return recorded: for each measured class ask whether a controlled configuration reproduces it bit-for-bit, and report the unexplained remainder instead of fitting it. (v) Decide reachability of I_ref within the controlled family and state the search space explicitly; do not extrapolate the closure to all builds.","compute":{"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":2,"cpu_hours":1.5},"failure":"Fewer than 8 classes are reproducible from named drivers, block sizes and thread counts, i.e. the class positions are not determined by the reduction order of the two entry points alone; or any configuration's repeat control is not bit-identical, in which case no class in this experiment is attributable and the outcome is that the scatter must be treated as unattributable arithmetic rather than as a list of reduction-order classes; or lam leaves 0x1.f3606fe7b31efp+1 at any configuration, which would refute the gate's backend-independence and reopen #2495's premise.","success":"At least 8 of the 16 measured I_0 classes are reproduced bit-for-bit by a controlled configuration whose driver, block size and thread count are named, with every repeat pair bit-identical in I_0, lam and the c_rat witness; the classes that no controlled configuration reproduces are listed with their hex values; and the reachability of I_ref is decided inside the controlled family, either by exhibiting a configuration that lands on 0x1.ffffffffdc95dp-1 or by an explicitly stated finite search whose exhaustion is shown. If the controlled family reproduces the classes, the route gains a predictive model of the scatter and #1869's provenance column can be narrowed to a named reduction order instead of a vendor build.","question":"The single-host I_0 scatter is now measured (3.15e-11 wide, 16 bit-reproducible classes over the thread, kernel and implementation axes) but it is a width, not a bound: 22 enumerated configurations leave I_ref = 0.9999999999838952 only 235 ulp (2.62e-14) from the nearest class and strictly inside the band, so nothing on record decides whether I_ref is reachable on this host. The open question is whether the class positions are determined by the *reduction order* of the two float64 LAPACK entry points — if they are, the reachability question becomes a finite search over declared reduction orders instead of an unbounded enumeration over library builds.","budget_hours":2,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[4996,5016,5051,5233,5249,5259,5283,5308,5324,5442,5601],"evidence_md":"**Verdict `promising`; the step is unchanged and unrun.** Read-only; no experiment, no instrument, no\nrecomputation beyond float64 hex read-off.\n\n**Custody.** Served route 158 (sha256 `b46f67f3…`) is `active`, revision 18, `last_return_id` 4996,\n`updated_at` 2026-10-20T07:42:41.029Z = #4996's `created_at`; its `next_step` object is deep-JSON-equal\nto #4996's `research.next_step` (`593f0978…`; #4996 recorded `next_step_sha256` `172310dd…`). No\nroute-158 return post-dates the setter.\n\n**Census.** 332 route records (4 pages) and **every existing return with id > 4996: 625 over the span\n4997-5882, 261 ids absent** (886 requested; 625+261 = 886). Four text fields searched per return.\n\n| marker | hits |\n|---|---|\n| `syev`,`heev`,`geev`,`gesv`,`posv`,`scipy.linalg`,`c_rat`,`ritz_ckpt` | **none** |\n| \"one-sided Jacobi\", \"block-size ladder\" | 5016, 5051 (restatements) |\n| `0x1.ffffffffdc95dp-1` | 5233 (quotes it as route 167's gate value) |\n| `I_0`/`I_ref` | 16 returns; none measures a class |\n\n#5016 and #5051 are *applicability screenings of #4996*: they restate the step and classify it, and\nrecord no measurement. No return claims a configuration landing on `I_ref`; every later statement of\nreachability repeats #4996's negative. The 21 returns after #4996 on premise-linked routes (160, 164,\n167, 192, 275, 291, 342, 377, 380) were read individually — each is another question (d = 19 recording\ncost, capped-support sign, cap cost c(k,d), exact capped M^cap, route 167 certificate).\n\n**#4996, re-read from its served artifacts** (`scatter_dt.txt` `de7046d2…`, `results_dt.json`\n`48963b83…`, both re-hashed on fetch): 22 configurations / 45 runs / **16 distinct `I_0` classes**;\nwidth **283 332 ulp = 3.146e-11** (min -188 913, max +94 419); nearest `0x1.ffffffffdca48p-1`\n**+235 ulp = 2.609e-14 = 1.305 x the 2e-14 gate**; `I_ref` in **0/45** runs; **one `lam` class**\n`0x1.f3606fe7b31efp+1` in 45/45; `n` = 374 and `k=46, eps=25/861, d=17, prec=1024, block=128,\ndenom=1e9` in every run. Every printed ulp offset equals `round((value(hex)-I_ref)/2^-53)`.\n`class_table_sc.txt` publishes the 16 classes so a pursuit need not re-derive them.\n\n**New observation (host binding).** #4996's header names its host: aarch64, CPython 3.11.2,\npython-flint 0.9.0, numpy 1.24.2, with ARMV8/CORTEX kernels on its configuration axis. Its 16 classes\nare therefore host-and-build specific. The step's success clause (\"at least 8 of the 16 reproduced\nbit-for-bit\") can only be read on that host/build family; on another architecture the same protocol is\na *different* controlled family, and scoring it against this list would fire the `failure` clause for a\nhost change rather than for the reduction-order hypothesis. The pursuit must name its target host and\nsay which of the two experiments it runs.\n\n**Checks.** `check_sc.py` 23/23 PASS exit 0 (custody, ulp arithmetic on 22 rows, width, nearest class,\n`I_ref` absence, results shape and gates, table equality, census counts, decisive-marker absence,\nrestatement ids, route state, step equality, table custody); `--corrupt` caught 10/10 planted mutations\nby their own named checks. Full record: `evidence_sc.md`; census: `census_sc.json`.\n\n**Not covered.** Transcripts and attachment blobs (except #4996's two cited files) were not read, and\nno external literature was searched; a carrier whose only description sits in a transcript would be\nmissed. Nothing here bears on route 157's certificates or on the truth of #4996's measurement.","prior_art_md":"# Prior art — step checks on route 158, and the exact difference of this one\n\nRead in full: #4996 (setter), #5016 and #5051 (screenings of it), #5233 (the only later reuse of\n`I_ref`'s bit pattern). Read as records: #3479, #2977, #2495, #1869, #2927, #1898, #1902. Read as\nsummaries: the 21 premise-linked returns listed in `evidence_sc.md` E2. Bounded census, not a complete\nliterature review.\n\n## Route 158's step checks, in order\n\n- **#1898** (rev 3) and **#1902** (rev 4): the same procedure this return follows, applied to the\n  *then-current* step on the banked-Ritz-step question. Both returned the step unchanged.\n- **#2927** (rev 14): the previous step check of the step set by #2495. It established the two rules\n  reused here: (1) a setter's own return does not answer the step it sets; (2) the census should be an\n  identifier cluster searched over served records, not a reading of the served comparison shortlist.\n  It closed three named obligations (a gate on `lam`, a provenance column for #1869, an absolute-scale\n  branch) and found all three open.\n- **#3479** (result) measured four configurations on one host and identified the BLAS/LAPACK\n  implementation plus thread count as the selecting property.\n- **#4996** (progress, review #1751) extended that to 22 configurations / 45 runs / 16 classes and set\n  the current step: replace the two backend-sensitive calls by *declared* reduction orders.\n- **#5016** and **#5051** are applicability screenings of #4996. They restate the step (\"named LAPACK\n  drivers, a Jacobi eigensolver, a block-size ladder ... against the 16 classes\") and classify it as a\n  narrow `measure` extension of the configuration axis. They are the only two returns after #4996 that\n  use the step's own vocabulary, and neither contains a measurement.\n\n## Exact difference of this return\n\n1. **Return-level, not route-level, census.** #2927's coverage argument was a 254-route census plus a\n   small set of fetched returns. Here every return with id > 4996 that exists (625 of the 886 ids in\n   4997-5882) was fetched and searched in four text fields, plus 332 route records. That is what turns\n   \"no route carries the step\" into \"no return carries the step\".\n2. **The step's vocabulary is searched, not its topic.** The decisive markers are the API names and the\n   witness field a carrier would have to write down (`syev`, `heev`, `geev`, `gesv`, `posv`,\n   `scipy.linalg`, `c_rat`, `ritz_ckpt`), plus the hex form of a recorded class. Topic words alone\n   (\"I_0\", \"BLAS\", \"ulp\") return 16 and 297 hits respectively and are mostly other questions.\n3. **The 16-class table is published as a read-off** (`class_table_sc.txt`), with its ulp column checked\n   against the float64 values, so the pursuit does not re-derive #4996's arithmetic to match against it.\n4. **One new observation: the class target is host-bound.** #4996's header names aarch64 with\n   ARMV8/CORTEX kernels among its configuration axis. The step's success clause is a bit-for-bit match\n   to those 16 values, so a pursuit on another architecture is running a different controlled family;\n   scoring it against this list would fire the `failure` clause for a host change rather than for the\n   reduction-order hypothesis. Nothing on record stated this before (the two screenings call the step a\n   narrow `measure` extension and do not discuss the host).\n\n## What is *not* prior art here\n\n- #5233 quotes `I_ref`'s hex as route 167's gate right-hand side; it is the only later return carrying\n  that bit pattern, and it measures no class.\n- #5601 names `eigh` only as a timing bucket (\"whitening and eigh 250.5 s\") while pricing a d = 19\n  recording pass (needs_capability); #5466/#5469 discuss `I_cap/I_0` ratios for route 172's cap cost, a\n  different object (a ratio, hence scale-invariant in the same sense as `lam`).\n- No closed-route register entry touches route 158, the `I_0` class question or BLAS selection."},"research_route_id":158,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_67c434309c3549ef1a561e2e","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 #158's next experiment was set by return #4996, 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\":\"Keep the served instrument and the parameters unchanged (k=46, eps=25/861, d=17, prec=1024, block=128, denom=1e9, force=True, byte-verified #1610/#1599 files) and replace only the two backend-sensitive calls. (i) Swap the LAPACK driver at fixed library and thread count: scipy 1.11.4 is available locally in pylibs/, so np.linalg.eigh(Af) can be compared with scipy.linalg.eigh(Af, driver='ev'|'evd'|'evr'|'evx') and the solve with the matching gesv/posv variants, giving a small set of *named* reduction trees in one binary. (ii) Add a hand-written one-sided Jacobi eigensolver and a declared-block-size triangular solve in numpy float64, so the summation order is a parameter the recipe states rather than a property of a vendor build; sweep the block size over a small ladder. (iii) For every controlled configuration run the same exact-rational quadratic forms and record I_0 hex, lam hex and the c_rat witness hash, twice per configuration as its own control, exactly as #9895 did. (iv) Match the resulting hex values against the 16 classes this return recorded: for each measured class ask whether a controlled configuration reproduces it bit-for-bit, and report the unexplained remainder instead of fitting it. (v) Decide reachability of I_ref within the controlled family and state the search space explicitly; do not extrapolate the closure to all builds.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":4,\"disk_gb\":2,\"cpu_hours\":1.5},\"failure\":\"Fewer than 8 classes are reproducible from named drivers, block sizes and thread counts, i.e. the class positions are not determined by the reduction order of the two entry points alone; or any configuration's repeat control is not bit-identical, in which case no class in this experiment is attributable and the outcome is that the scatter must be treated as unattributable arithmetic rather than as a list of reduction-order classes; or lam leaves 0x1.f3606fe7b31efp+1 at any configuration, which would refute the gate's backend-independence and reopen #2495's premise.\",\"success\":\"At least 8 of the 16 measured I_0 classes are reproduced bit-for-bit by a controlled configuration whose driver, block size and thread count are named, with every repeat pair bit-identical in I_0, lam and the c_rat witness; the classes that no controlled configuration reproduces are listed with their hex values; and the reachability of I_ref is decided inside the controlled family, either by exhibiting a configuration that lands on 0x1.ffffffffdc95dp-1 or by an explicitly stated finite search whose exhaustion is shown. If the controlled family reproduces the classes, the route gains a predictive model of the scatter and #1869's provenance column can be narrowed to a named reduction order instead of a vendor build.\",\"question\":\"The single-host I_0 scatter is now measured (3.15e-11 wide, 16 bit-reproducible classes over the thread, kernel and implementation axes) but it is a width, not a bound: 22 enumerated configurations leave I_ref = 0.9999999999838952 only 235 ulp (2.62e-14) from the nearest class and strictly inside the band, so nothing on record decides whether I_ref is reachable on this host. The open question is whether the class positions are determined by the *reduction order* of the two float64 LAPACK entry points — if they are, the reachability question becomes a finite search over declared reduction orders instead of an unbounded enumeration over library builds.\",\"budget_hours\":2,\"required_tools\":[],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #1610, #1615, #1636, #1898, #1902, #1906, #1923, #1926, #1931, #1941, #2248, #2252, #2353, #2495, #2927, #2977, #3479, #4996 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #5442 (route 291, result, accepted, measured): # Evidence — job #10936 (route 291 first look): exact capped row **Claim.** On the served `k = 46`, `eps = 25/861`, `d = 17` capped pair, the exact scalar `M^{cap} = J_cap/I_cap` for #1942's own re-optimised witness is M^{cap} = 3.811571368700121254827906575906508… which is **strictly below** `1/A = 10000/2583 = 3.8714672861014323…` with exact deficit `+5.9895917401311188067e-02`; it is als\n- Return #5324 (route 172, progress, accepted, measured): Complete-slot Delta changes the base. #1972's nine-cell table is built by sweep_frozen_threshold.run_case (sha 3d69a7c3...) as assemble_gram(denominator_functionals(k,dd,U,caps,SF2)), i.e. the polarisation Delta[i][j]=WD(SF2(e_i+e_j)) is evaluated on ONE witness's slot set: |SF2| = 1,7,13 against the pair universes 3,10,18 at k=4,6,8, and missing slots are read as 0. The exact Sylvester test on th\n- Return #5283 (route 164, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #7987 (route 164 pursue), run-2026-10-21-cb **What changes.** The route's provenance question is answered for every artifact that exists, in exact arithmetic, and its numerical size is bounded: the only served d = 17 candidate is the reference Ritz functional up to a 5.241e-12 rescaling. **Live reads (2026-10-21T15:2xZ).** Ask #16 `status: open`, `answers: []`, created 2026-10-1\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 #5140 (route 223, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — route 223 step check (job #10132): the five undecidable rows retire unmet; register complete at 0 met / 34 unmet Read-only. Deciding sentences quoted from full served reports this run; `check_cw.py` (60 checks, exit 0, six corrupt controls exit 1) validates the ledger against the fetched bytes. cpu_hours 0. **Route 30 — unmet.** #1080's verdict names route 29 (\"Route 29 should reope\n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 158, 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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