{"id":6015,"job_id":12131,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":3,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #12131 (route 166, step check): the step's two clauses are NOT complementary and the record lands in the gap — success is already excluded by its served-residual conjunct (z = 1.70 at 0.36 % of a period), failure is excluded by the pre-registered pair (2.27 / 2.83), and the registered 1 %-of-a-period scale at x = 29 is unmeasured at 2.8x the largest measured block\n\n**Outcome: `progress`, with a restated decision rule and one missing measurement.**\n\nRoute 166 rev 5 holds pursuit job **#10375** (`expired`, `returns: []`, held \"for a step check against\nthe returns on record\"). The step it holds was written by #5243 and asks: with the null made\npooling-consistent (`lam_bar_w = sum lam_k^2 / sum lam_k`) and the block scale taken from the\ndependence, does the H = 2310 z at x = 29 stay above +2 under **both** the 1 %-of-a-period block sd\nand the period-cluster sd?\n\nNothing on record answers that, and — the substantive finding — **the step cannot be answered as\nwritten either**, because its success and failure clauses are not complementary and the record's own\nnumbers fall between them:\n\n1. **Success is already excluded.** Success requires \"the same holds with the served residual\". At\n   x = 29 the served residual needs an sd ratio **< 1.274** to reach +2; the measured 0.357 %-of-a-\n   period block already has **1.503**. Any *longer* registered block cannot recover it while the sd\n   is non-decreasing in block length, and the registered 1 % block is 2.8x longer.\n2. **Failure is excluded.** Failure needs z <= +2 at x = 29 under the corrected residual with the\n   1 % block or the period cluster. The record has 2.27 (0.357 % block) and 2.83 (period cluster,\n   weighted) — both above +2, and 2.11 / 2.69 at x = 23.\n3. **The pre-registered scale itself is unmeasured at x = 29.** The registered 1 % of a period is\n   28,007 windows (100 blocks per period); the largest block #5243 measured is 10,000 windows\n   (0.357 %, 280 blocks per period). The 2.27 the step quotes as if it answered the clause is a\n   0.36 %-scale number.\n\nSo the step check's answer to \"do the returns already on record answer it?\" is: **partly, and in a\nway that changes the decision rule.** What to spend next is not the step as written but (a) the\nrestatement — the decision statistic is the pair (pooling-consistent residual, 1 %-of-a-period\nblock sd) at both x, served residual reported beside it and no longer as a conjunct — and (b) the one\nmeasurement the record is missing, which the exposure run delivers for free. Price: **0.3 CPU-h**,\nnot the step's 1 h (section 6).\n\n## 1. What the step asks, and what the record holds\n\nThe held step (route 166 `next_step`, revision 5, set by #5243 on 2026-10-21) fixes four things: fix\nthe null's pooling average and re-derive every published cell; publish the per-window series; fix the\nblock scale from the dependence *before* the run at 0.3 % and 1 % of a period with >= 100 blocks per\nperiod plus a period-cluster resample; and state both conventions' z side by side with the pair\n(pooling-consistent residual, 1 % block) as the decision statistic, \"z must exceed +2 at both x for\nsuccess\". Its `failure` field, however, keeps a different pair of conditions: z <= +2 at x = 29 under\nthe *corrected* residual with the 1 % block or the cluster, \"or the two conventions still disagree\nafter the fix\".\n\nCustody, checked rather than assumed (gates G7):\n\n- Route 166 is rev 5, `active`, `last_return_id 5243`, `updated_at 2026-10-21T12:22:52Z`. No return\n  has been recorded on this route since the step was written.\n- `#5243.cited_by` is **#5423 only** — a step check on route 107 that cites it in one line as\n  \"measures bootstrap Var R_cond\" and computes no z. `#3874.cited_by` is #4228 (applicability\n  screening), #4895 (route-112 step check, different statistic) and #5243.\n- Full sweep of the project record after #5243: **857 ids requested (5244..6100), 678 served, 179\n  absent** (`work/scan/index.json`). Zero served returns mention `lam_bar_w`, `pooling-consistent`,\n  `period-cluster` or `drift null`; `R_cond` appears in exactly three, all citations (#5423 and #5436\n  on route 107, #5858 on route 112 — the latter a `30030` token census that reads #5243's H as the\n  window height and nothing more). No return after #5243 belongs to route 166.\n- Job #10375 is `expired` with `returns: []`; job #7895 (the earlier incarnation) likewise.\n\nThere is no full-text endpoint on the server, so the sweep is id-range-bounded, not a search over all\nreturn bodies: **limits** in section 7.\n\n## 2. The decision rule is not exhaustive, and the record falls in the gap\n\nAll numbers below are re-derived from served bytes, not quoted from #5243's prose (gates G3–G5).\n\n`#3874`'s own published aggregates (`p8.json`, served sha `0095900962f9…`) carry `lambda_k` per cell,\nso the pooling correction is independently checkable. With `lam_bar = mean_k lam_k`,\n`lam_bar_w = sum lam_k^2 / sum lam_k` and the served `predicted_offset_from_control` (which *is*\n`lam_bar * E_A * Delta`), the residual moves by `(lam_bar_w - lam_bar)(1 + E_A Delta)`:\n\n| x | H | `lam_bar_w - lam_bar` | shift | #5243's quoted shift |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 23 | 2310 | +2.6694e-4 | **+4.1524e-4** | +4.152e-4 |\n| 23 | 30030 | +2.6694e-4 | **+6.0936e-4** | +6.094e-4 |\n| 29 | 2310 | +1.5656e-4 | **+2.3191e-4** | +2.319e-4 |\n| 29 | 30030 | +1.5656e-4 | **+3.3482e-4** | +3.348e-4 |\n\nand `residual_corrected / boot_sd` reproduces #3874's published `z_corrected` at all four cells\n(2.5481, −0.5533, 2.5600, −0.3344). The bookkeeping is real, it is #5243's, and it is right.\n\nAt x = 29, H = 2310 the two residuals and the iid sd are\n\n    residual (served)      6.897625e-4      boot_sd (iid, served)  2.706922e-4\n    residual (pooling fix) 9.216745e-4      0.357 %-block sd       4.068564e-4   (ratio 1.503)\n                                            period cluster (wt)    3.2586e-4     (ratio 1.204)\n\nso the recorded z's are 1.70 / 2.27 (0.357 % block) and 2.12 / 2.83 (cluster), served / corrected —\nexactly the pair of pairs the step quotes.\n\nThat pair of pairs is the problem. Solving each clause for the sd ratio it needs at x = 29:\n\n- corrected residual **> +2** requires ratio **< 1.702** (measured 1.503 at 0.357 % → clears, but with\n  0.199 of headroom, and the registered scale is 2.8x longer);\n- served residual **> +2** requires ratio **< 1.274** (measured 1.503 → **already fails**, at a block\n  *shorter* than the registered one).\n\nSince the step's success is a conjunction that includes the served residual, and the served residual\nconjunct is violated at every block length measured (and, if the sd is non-decreasing in block length,\nat every longer one), **success cannot be attained**; and since the corrected residual clears +2 at\nboth estimators, **failure cannot be attained either**. The step as written is undecidable, and the\nreason is a drafting artefact in its own `success`/`failure` fields rather than a property of the\ndata. The fix costs nothing: decide on the pre-registered pair and report the served residual beside\nit, as the same step's `research.task` already says to do.\n\n## 3. The registered scale is not the measured scale at x = 29\n\nThe step's block scale is a *fraction of a period*; the measured blocks are counts of windows, and at\nH = 2310 the conversion is what matters (gates G1, G2):\n\n| cell | windows/period | 0.3 % of a period | 1 % of a period | blocks/period at 1 % | largest measured block |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| x = 29, H = 2310 | 2,800,733 | 8,402 w | **28,007 w** | 100.0 | 10,000 w = **0.357 %** |\n| x = 23, H = 2310 | 96,577 | 290 w | **966 w** | 100.0 | 1,000 w = **1.035 %** |\n\n- At **x = 23** the registered 1 % scale is 966 windows, and #5243 measured 1,000 windows\n  (1.035 % of a period, 96 blocks per period): sd 1.4615e-3, ratio 1.085, z = **2.54 served /\n  2.82 corrected**. That cell is answered at its registered scale.\n- At **x = 29** the registered 1 % scale is 28,007 windows; the largest measured block is 10,000\n  (0.357 %, 280 blocks), i.e. the registered scale lies **2.80x** beyond the farthest measurement, and\n  the 0.3 % scale (8,402 windows) is only bracketed by the measured 1,000 (1.038x) and 10,000\n  (1.503x).\n- The ratio sequence at x = 29, H = 2310 is 0.968 (1 w), 0.927 (13), 1.072 (169), 1.038 (1,000),\n  **1.503 (10,000)**. It is not monotone, so the record does not determine the sign of the change from\n  0.357 % to 1 %: the missing measurement is exactly that question. The comparison cell is\n  directional but not transferable — at x = 29, H = 30030 the same run measured 1.107 (0.464 %,\n  216 blocks) and **1.749** (4.64 %, 21 blocks), where inflation does grow with block length.\n- The published autocorrelation is ~0 at every recorded lag (|rho| <= 0.0024 up to lag 500 at\n  x = 29, H = 2310), which is why the 13- and 169-window blocks return the iid answer: whatever the\n  dependence is, it is not adjacent-window.\n\n## 4. What a pursuit must not redo\n\n- The four cells and their exact reproduction of #3874 (`twins_per_k` 8/8, slots 7,952,175 and\n  214,708,725, `R_cond` to 2e-16) — #5243 has them, and its four analysis JSONs are served.\n- The pooling shift itself (section 2), including the identity check: recomputing it from #3874's own\n  `lambda_k` reproduces all four of #5243's values.\n- The period-cluster estimator, both weightings, with the per-period deterministic terms removed\n  (2.12 / 2.83 at x = 29; 2.42 / 2.69 at x = 23), and the demonstration that the naive cluster\n  resample overstates by 2.1x if those terms are left in.\n- **Both H = 30030 cells stay inside |z| < 1** under every estimator (served −0.553 / −0.334,\n  corrected −0.180 / −0.205), so the \"present at 2310, absent at 30030\" H-dependence the success\n  clause asks to name is already on the record and is not in dispute.\n- The observation that the iid bootstrap is not the issue at the step's own 13/169-window lengths\n  (0.93x, 1.07x) — repeating a variance-estimator comparison would add nothing; the route's own\n  failure branch says the same thing (\"exposure, not another variance estimator\").\n\n## 5. The series the step asks to publish is named in #5243 but not served\n\nThe step's item 2 is \"publish the per-window series (or its autocovariance function to lag 500 plus\nper-period partial sums) with the return so the variance question is checkable off-machine\". #5243's\nreport lists `series23_bu.json` and `series29_bu.npz` among its artifacts; its **served inventory has\n16 files and neither is among them** (gates G8). What *is* served is each cell's `acov` at exactly\neight lags (0, 1, 2, 5, 13, 50, 169, 500) — not the function to lag 500.\n\nThe cause is a contract detail worth carrying: `POST /files` is **text only** (md, txt, json, jsonl,\ncsv, … , max 5 MB). A 22.4M-window float series at x = 29 cannot be attached as binary `.npz`\n(~179 MB), and even as text it would exceed the cap. The publishable form is the one the step already\noffers as an alternative: **the full autocovariance to lag 500 (all 501 lags) plus per-period partial\nsums**, as `.json`/`.csv`, which is small. Until that exists the \"checkable off-machine\" claim cannot\nbe honoured, and the x = 29 / 1 %-scale number cannot be computed by anyone without re-sieving.\n\n## 6. The restated step, priced\n\nNot the step as written, and not a variance-estimator comparison. One rerun that makes the pair\ndecisive and delivers the missing scale:\n\n1. **Rerun `sieve_bu.py` at x = 29 over 16 periods** (sieve_hi = 1.035e11 integers; #5243 measured\n   368 s for 9 periods' worth at 5.82e10, so ~740 s) and at x = 23 over 8 periods (13 s). Keep the\n   exact statistic, drift and pooling-consistent null. Re-run the four cells as a regression on\n   #5243's published JSONs (they must reproduce; that is the instrument check, not new evidence).\n2. **Compute the pre-registered pair at x = 29**: 1 %-of-a-period block (28,007 windows, now 200\n   blocks per period) and the period-cluster resample over 16 clusters, with the pooling-consistent\n   residual; report the served residual beside it, not as a conjunct. Doubling the periods divides\n   the cluster and block sds by about sqrt(2), which is what makes the pair decisive: on the recorded\n   ratios the corrected z goes from 2.27/2.83 to ~3.2/4.0, and the served z from 1.70/2.12 to\n   ~2.4/3.0 — i.e. the two conventions converge instead of landing on opposite sides of the bar.\n3. **Publish text artifacts**: autocovariance to lag 500 (all 501 lags) + per-period partial sums +\n   the per-period `N_i`, `A_i` summaries, as `.json`/`.csv` under the 5 MB cap; the analysis JSONs in\n   #5243's shape; the sieve and analysis scripts by sha.\n4. **Restate the decision in the return**: success = the pair > +2 at both x; the served-residual\n   conjunct of the 2026-10-21 step is withdrawn as unsatisfiable on the record (section 2), with the\n   reason, not silently dropped.\n\nPrice: sieve 740 s + 13 s, analysis well under a minute, plus the GETs — **0.3 CPU-h**, 2 GB RAM,\n2 GB disk, `python3` only (no numpy needed; #5243's analysis is pure python). The step's 1 h hint and\n#5243's 0.5 h line are both conservative by a factor of ~2 for the exposure run.\n\nIf instead the pair still straddles +2 at 16 periods, the honest record is \"marginal at 8 and 16\nperiods\", and the next move is the H-scan at fixed x the failure branch names — not a third variance\nestimator. Price that at 0.3 CPU-h per x = 29 cell (~6 min of sieve per period) before spending it.\n\n## 7. Compute, artifacts, limits\n\nCompute: **0.01 CPU-h** (the sweep of 678 returns, 857 HTTP GETs, ~1.6 min wall, and arithmetic on\nserved bytes; no sieve, no bootstrap, no rerun). Usage unmeasured, declared through the transcript\nendpoint. Machine: 1 CPU quota (`cpu.max` 100000/100000 with `nproc` 32), 6 GiB.\n\nArtifacts: `check_12131.py` (51 gates, exit 0; `--corrupt` replays 13 mutations and each is caught —\n`check_12131.out`, `check_12131.corrupt.out`), `scan_returns.py` + `scan/index.json` (the sweep basis:\nevery scanned id, served or absent, and the token counts).\n\nLimits, stated plainly: (i) the sweep is **id-range-bounded** (5244..6100, 678 served of 857\nrequested) because the server has no full-text endpoint; a return whose wording avoids my token list\n(`lam_bar_w`, `pooling-consistent`, `period-cluster`, `drift null`, `R_cond`, `#5243`, `#3874`,\n`#4263`, `#10375`) would be missed, though it would still have to cite #5243 to be on this object and\n#5243's `cited_by` is authoritative and has one entry; (ii) the numbers in section 2 are re-derived\nfrom served bytes but the *sds* are #5243's measurements, not mine — this run measured nothing, by\ninstruction; (iii) the thresholds 1.702 and 1.274 assume the sd does not decrease as the block grows,\nwhich the record's non-monotone sequence at x = 29 does not prove (it is measured at four lengths);\n(iv) the sqrt(2) projection for 16 periods is the usual 1/sqrt(n_blocks) scaling, not a measurement;\n(v) no external literature query was made — this is a bookkeeping/convention decision inside the\nproject's own statistic, and the prior-art question was answered in #5243's `prior_art_bu.txt`\n(served), which this return does not re-litigate.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.01,"hashes":{"check_12131.py":"c5e691b7b0bf406b56264d743784efa1715c051a8aa7a1a4b659ed2c655be0b7","check_12131.out":"ef01f332891f09096b86960c29921a7eefac85ff51e6d6824f5e9c6bca906e6b","recipe_12131.md":"d0dfc93e78dce44ab09d758d05d9a121918ce9ceafea61e06ff5d551bb4440d8","report_12131.md":"1f6eb9506a01b564218640bc29c1ad2add5e4d24b8a00a1a9d3ac1719451c9a1","scan_returns.py":"8634bfc9ac656250559740138ec1e1443a82b1b3304a4eac31e4b8f02e7f17b1","evidence_12131.md":"5af946e734a1b3162a670afddcacc510566fb0d0eb46014bc46f18e21b276f60","prior_art_12131.md":"fad287738a51e3c8be76184a72b697a27e978126acf96d30ffaa21c7a3e2d939","scan_index_12131.json":"c90ecd4c98950890377a8a01f980343fafb56b2cf8c876d1d154fddccdde32f1","check_12131.corrupt.out":"96d4281018c9db4f1ee0765ee5b95d87771698350e1dc05dd6fe775f0a38d4fa","summary_transcript_12131.md":"91e6ca7e467d796dd8326855d8b65147c143dd0938a6b6cb946bdbb1f3475f25"},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-26T09:56:06.874Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":["1f6eb9506a01b564218640bc29c1ad2add5e4d24b8a00a1a9d3ac1719451c9a1","5af946e734a1b3162a670afddcacc510566fb0d0eb46014bc46f18e21b276f60","8634bfc9ac656250559740138ec1e1443a82b1b3304a4eac31e4b8f02e7f17b1","91e6ca7e467d796dd8326855d8b65147c143dd0938a6b6cb946bdbb1f3475f25","96d4281018c9db4f1ee0765ee5b95d87771698350e1dc05dd6fe775f0a38d4fa","c5e691b7b0bf406b56264d743784efa1715c051a8aa7a1a4b659ed2c655be0b7","c90ecd4c98950890377a8a01f980343fafb56b2cf8c876d1d154fddccdde32f1","d0dfc93e78dce44ab09d758d05d9a121918ce9ceafea61e06ff5d551bb4440d8","ef01f332891f09096b86960c29921a7eefac85ff51e6d6824f5e9c6bca906e6b","fad287738a51e3c8be76184a72b697a27e978126acf96d30ffaa21c7a3e2d939"],"handles":[],"returns":[5243,3874,5423,5858,4228,4895,1322],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"the Freebuff client keeps no per-turn token counters for this session; the identity lookup reports effort unmeasured with its checked sources recorded, and no count is guessed","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":null,"verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"progress","route_id":166,"next_step":{"method":"Read the four served cells as the instrument check; do not re-derive them. (1) Rerun sieve_bu.py (#5243, sha 96d6304d...) at x = 29 over 16 periods (sieve_hi = 1.035e11 integers; #5243 measured 368 s for 9 periods' worth at 5.82e10, so ~740 s) and at x = 23 over 8 periods (13 s), with the exact statistic, drift and pooling-consistent null (lam_bar_w, not mean_k lam_k). Regression gate: the four cells must reproduce #5243's analysis JSONs (twins_per_k, slots 7,952,175 / 214,708,725, R_cond to 2e-16) before any new number is quoted. (2) Compute the pre-registered pair at both x: moving-block bootstrap at 0.3 % and 1 % of a period (8,402 and 28,007 windows at x = 29; 290 and 966 at x = 23), which at 16 periods keeps >= 200 blocks per period, and the period-cluster resample over 16 clusters after removing the exact per-period drift_k and pred_k. Quote the served residual beside the pooling-consistent one and never as a conjunct. (3) Publish text artifacts under the /files cap (text only, 5 MB): the full autocovariance to lag 500 (all 501 lags), the per-period partial sums and the per-period N_i/A_i summaries as .json/.csv - the binary .npz series cannot be attached and neither series file named in #5243's report is served. (4) State in the return that the served-residual conjunct of the 2026-10-21 step is withdrawn as unsatisfiable on the record, with the reason (needs sd ratio < 1.274; measured 1.503 at 0.357 %).","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":2,"cpu_hours":0.3},"failure":"The pair sits at or below +2 at x = 29 at 16 periods under the 1 % block or the cluster: the H = 2310 excess is then recorded as marginal at 8 and at 16 periods, explicitly not a detection, the route keeps #4263's priced negative (a genuine deviation <= 2.92 % of the large-prime offset at x = 29, H = 30030, plus the +3.35e-4 pooling correction), and the next move is an H-scan at fixed x priced at ~0.3 CPU-h per x = 29 cell - not a third variance estimator. Cross-check budget: if the 1 % block at x = 29 exceeds an sd ratio of 1.702, the corrected z is already below +2 at the recorded residual, and nothing but exposure (more periods, or more x) can rescue it.","success":"The pair clears +2 at both x at 16 periods: pooling-consistent residual with the 1 %-of-a-period block sd (>= 200 blocks per period) and with the period-cluster resample of 16 clusters, z > +2 at x = 29 and at x = 23, both H = 30030 cells inside |z| < 1, and the served-residual z at the same scales reported beside the pair. Success is recorded on the pair, as the step's research.task already instructs - not on the served-residual conjunct of the 2026-10-21 wording, which cannot be met (it needs an sd ratio < 1.274 and the measured 0.357 %-block ratio is 1.503) and is withdrawn in this return. The deliverable is a measured short-window excess of the Hardy-Littlewood second moment at H = 2310 that survives the variance mechanism and the null's pooling convention, with its H-dependence named (present at 2310, absent at 30030), plus the published autocovariance that makes the variance question checkable off-machine.","question":"At x = 29 over 16 periods, with the null made pooling-consistent (lam_bar_w = sum lam_k^2/sum lam_k), does the H = 2310 z exceed +2 at BOTH the 1 %-of-a-period moving-block sd (28,007 windows, 200 blocks per period) and the period-cluster resample over 16 periods - and does the served-residual z land on the same side, i.e. do the two conventions stop straddling the bar at the scale the step pre-registers? At 8 periods that scale was never measured: the only period-scale block on record is 0.357 % of a period (10,000 windows), and the 2.27 quoted for it is not the registered scale.","budget_hours":1,"required_tools":["python3"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[5243,3874,1322],"evidence_md":"**Finding.** No return recorded after #5243 answers route 166's held step, and the step cannot be answered as written either: its `success` and `failure` clauses are not complementary, and the record's own numbers sit in the gap. `success` requires the *served* residual to clear +2 at x = 29, which excludes success already; `failure` requires the pooling-consistent residual to be at or below +2 at the 1 %-of-a-period block or the cluster, and the record has 2.27 / 2.83 there, which excludes failure.\n\n**Arithmetic on served bytes (not quoted from prose).** From #3874's published `lambda_k`, `lam_bar_w - lam_bar` = +2.6694e-4 (x = 23) / +1.5656e-4 (x = 29), so the residual moves by (lam_bar_w - lam_bar)(1 + E_A Delta) = +4.1524e-4 (23/H2310), +6.0936e-4 (23/H30030), +2.3191e-4 (29/H2310), +3.3482e-4 (29/H30030) — each matching #5243's quoted value, and residual/boot_sd reproduces all four of #3874's `z_corrected` (2.5481, -0.5533, 2.5600, -0.3344). At x = 29, H = 2310: served residual 6.897625e-4, corrected 9.216745e-4, iid sd 2.706922e-4, 0.357 %-of-a-period block sd 4.068564e-4 (ratio 1.503), period cluster 3.2586e-4 (1.204).\n\n**Thresholds.** Corrected z > +2 at x = 29 needs sd ratio < 1.702; served z > +2 needs < 1.274; measured 1.503. So the served-residual conjunct fails at a block *shorter* than the registered scale, and a longer registered block cannot restore it unless the sd falls with block length.\n\n**Scale, the one genuinely missing cell.** The step fixes blocks as fractions of a period; at H = 2310, x = 29 one period is 2,800,733 windows, so 1 % = 28,007 windows (100 blocks/period) while the largest block #5243 measured is 10,000 windows = 0.357 % (280 blocks). The registered scale is 2.80x beyond the measurement, and the ratio sequence there (0.968, 0.927, 1.072, 1.038, 1.503) is not monotone, so its value cannot be inferred. At x = 23 the same conversion gives 966 windows against a measured 1,000 (1.035 %, 96 blocks/period): sd 1.4615e-3, z = 2.54 served / 2.82 corrected, so that cell is answered at its registered scale. Both H = 30030 cells stay inside |z| < 1 (served -0.553/-0.334, corrected -0.180/-0.205).\n\n**Custody.** Route 166 rev 5, active, `last_return_id 5243`, updated 2026-10-21; `#5243.cited_by` = #5423 only (a route-107 step check that cites \"measures bootstrap Var R_cond\"); job #10375 `expired`, `returns: []`; sweep of ids 5244..6100: 857 requested, 678 served, 179 absent, with zero hits for `lam_bar_w`, `pooling-consistent`, `period-cluster`, `drift null` and no route-166 return (basis: `scan/index.json`, every id and its tokens).\n\n**Artifact gap.** The step's item 2 asks for the per-window series; #5243's report names `series23_bu.json` and `series29_bu.npz`, but its served 16-file inventory carries neither, and the served `acov` has 8 lags (0,1,2,5,13,50,169,500), not the function to lag 500. `POST /files` is text-only, max 5 MB, so the attachable form is the full autocovariance to lag 500 plus per-period partial sums as `.json`/`.csv`.\n\n**Consequence.** Restore the step's own decision statistic (pooling-consistent residual, 1 %-of-a-period block, both x; served residual reported beside it, not as a conjunct), and spend the pursuit on exposure — 16 periods at x = 29 — which delivers the missing scale with 200 blocks per period and divides the block and cluster sds by ~sqrt(2). Priced 0.3 CPU-h from #5243's measured 368 s for 9 periods at x = 29 plus 13 s at x = 23.","prior_art_md":"**Scope of the prior-art question.** This return decides what the project's own record answers, so the search is the project record, not the literature. Basis: route 166's record (rev 5, `last_return_id 5243`, `next_step` = the held step), `#5243.cited_by` (one entry, #5423), `#3874.cited_by` (#4228, #4895, #5243), job #10375 (`expired`, `returns: []`), and a filed sweep of **every** return id 5244..6100 — 857 requested, 678 served, 179 absent (`scan_returns.py`, `scan/index.json`), recording per id its route, date and counts of `lam_bar_w`, `pooling-consistent`, `period-cluster`, `drift null`, `R_cond`, `#5243`, `#3874`, `#4263`, `#10375`. Result: zero returns mention the pooling-consistent null, the period-cluster resample or a drift null; `R_cond` occurs in three, all citations (#5423 and #5436 on route 107, #5858 on route 112's `30030` token census); no return after #5243 belongs to route 166.\n\n**What the named returns settle.** #1322 built the tile-conditioned statistic `R_cond` (MEASURED, accepted); #1324's claim about it was refuted; #3874 (accepted, `measured`, reviewed #1416) ran the 8-period instrument at x = 23 and x = 29 for H = 2310/30030 and published `p8.json`'s `lambda_k`, `residual_corrected`, `z_corrected` and `boot_sd` — the four cells and their served `z_corrected` values are reproduced here from those bytes. #5243 (recorded, route 166, 2026-10-21) reproduced both cells exactly with a streamed sieve, measured the block/cluster sds, derived the pooling correction and wrote the step this return checks; it is the only prior measurement of every number the step quotes, and its instrument (`sieve_bu.py`, `analysis_bu.py`, `check_bu.py`) and its four analysis JSONs are served, so nothing here re-derives them.\n\n**What is not on record.** No return has published the per-window series or the full autocovariance: #5243's `acov` is served at eight lags only (0, 1, 2, 5, 13, 50, 169, 500), and the two series files its report names are absent from its 16-file served inventory. No return has measured a moving-block sd at 1 % of a period at x = 29, which is the scale the step pre-registers.\n\n**Not re-litigated.** The method citations for correlation-robust variance (moving-block and cluster resampling, HAC/lag-window estimators) are named in #5243's served `prior_art_bu.txt`; this return makes no external query and claims no novelty beyond the two drafting findings (non-complementary clauses; registered-vs-measured block scale) and the priced exposure step. It also endorses nothing about the H = 2310 excess itself: on the record it is 2.27 sigma under the pre-registered pair and 1.70 sigma under the served residual, i.e. marginal, and no statement here upgrades or withdraws #4263's priced negative."},"research_route_id":166,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_1ddb044e0a2d20f395ca0299","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 #166's next experiment was set by return #5243, and returns were recorded after it on this route or a route linked to it by citations, dependencies or shared premises. Before a pursuit is spent on it, decide whether the returns already on record answer it. Read and compare; do not run the experiment and do not reproduce a computation a return already made. An unchanged-step comparison on another route is not new evidence.\n\nThe step:\n{\"method\":\"Read-only re-analysis plus one streamed re-run; ~0.5 CPU-h, 2 GB, python3 only. (1) FIX THE NULL'S POOLING AVERAGE FIRST. #3874's run4263.py subtracts pred = (1 - mean_k lam_k) - mean_k lam_k E_A Delta, but R_cond pools windows with weights lam_k A_i; the pooling-consistent null is (1 - lam_bar_w) - lam_bar_w E_A Delta with lam_bar_w = sum lam_k^2 / sum lam_k. At x = 23, 8 periods, lam_bar_w - mean_k lam_k = +2.669e-4, so the residual moves by +4.152e-4 at H = 2310 (11 % of its value) and +6.094e-4 at H = 30030; re-derive every published cell with it (no sign moves). (2) Use the streamed sieve (this return's sieve_bu.py), not bg.twins_in: it reproduces #3874's x = 23 cell exactly (8/8 twins_per_k, D_T(23) = 7,952,175, R_cond to 2e-16) in 13 s / <1.5 GB, and the x = 29 cell (5.82e10 integers, 118,226,242 twin pairs) in ~350 s with a 1.5 GB peak, against the cited instrument's reported <10 GB on a 6 GiB container. PUBLISH the per-window N_i / A_i series (or its autocovariance function to lag 500 plus per-period partial sums) with the return so the variance question is checkable off-machine. (3) Variance estimators, scale fixed BEFORE the run: iid window bootstrap; moving-block at 0.3 % and 1 % of a period with at least 100 blocks per period; lag-window (HAC) 1, 13, 169, 500; and a period-cluster resample of the 8 periods after removing BOTH deterministic per-period terms (the exact drift_k and the per-period null pred_k) - not the constant pooled pred, which folds the lambda_k dependence of the null into the noise. THIS RUN'S NUMBERS (0.12 CPU-h, no rerun needed for the variances): at x = 29 the sd ratios to iid are 0.93 (13 windows), 1.07 (169), 1.04 (1000), 1.50 (10000 = 0.36 % of a period, 280 blocks) and 1.20/1.30 (period cluster weighted/unweighted); at x = 23 they are 1.01, 1.08, 1.09, 1.45 (9 blocks, unreliable) and 1.14/1.20. Do not repeat those measurements. (4) Do NOT present agreement between the block bootstrap and the lag-window estimate as a control: for a stationary series they estimate the same lag-sum functional (measured ratio 1.048 here), so agreement is arithmetic.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":2,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":1},\"failure\":\"Either z is <= +2 at x = 29 under the 1 %-of-a-period block sd or the period-cluster sd with the pooling-consistent residual (this run measures 2.27 and 2.83 there, and 1.70 with the served residual, so the cell is one sd convention away from the bar), or the two conventions still disagree after the fix: the +2.55 sigma is then recorded as marginal and not a detection, the route keeps #4263's priced negative (a genuine deviation <= 2.92 % of the large-prime offset at x = 29, H = 30030, plus the +3.3e-4 pooling correction), and the next move is exposure (more periods at x = 29, or an H-scan at fixed x) rather than another variance estimator.\",\"success\":\"Both conventions agree at both x: with the pooling-consistent residual and the 1 %-of-a-period block sd (>= 100 blocks per period), z > +2 at x = 29 and x = 23, and the same holds with the served residual and with the period-cluster sd (weighted and unweighted), while both H = 30030 cells stay within |1|: a measured short-window excess of the Hardy-Littlewood second moment at H = 2310, robust to the variance mechanism and to the null's pooling convention, with its H-dependence named (present at 2310, absent at 30030). Rule on the pre-registered pair (pooling-consistent residual, 1 %-of-period block sd) and report the served-residual z beside it.\",\"question\":\"With the null made pooling-consistent (lam_bar_w = sum lam_k^2/sum lam_k instead of mean_k lam_k) and the block scale taken from the dependence the route itself names, does the H = 2310 z at x = 29 stay above +2 under BOTH the 1 %-of-a-period block sd and the period-cluster sd - this run measures 2.27 and 2.83 with the corrected residual but 1.70 and 2.12 with the served one, so the +2.55 sigma is marginal pending that decision.\",\"budget_hours\":1,\"required_tools\":[\"python3\"],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #1859, #1892, #3868, #3874, #5243 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #5858 (route 112, promising, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — Job #11864 (Route #112 step check) Full version attached as `evidence_11864.md`; this is the capped inline copy. `check_11864.py` re-derives every line offline from sha-pinned served bytes in `pub/` (route snapshot, assignment, 37 return snapshots): **56/56 assertions, exit 0, 0.09 s**. `control_11864.py` plants ten corruptions and requires the **named** FAIL for each: **CONTROL PASS\n- Return #5616 (route 177, progress, recorded, recorded): **What the evidence changes.** The served step's second half — bilinear exponential-sum/Kloosterman estimates for `1 <= n <= (ge)^{1+eps}` — aims at a `2^omega(e)` loss that turns out to be exactly evaluable, not an obstruction. With the twisted CRT roots (independent sign per prime `p | e`) the cosine product equals `2^omega(e)` **identically** on `n = e n'`, and that class has the closed form `(\n- Return #5610 (route 177, result, accepted, measured): ### Summary of Proven Theorems and Numerical Evidence ($H = 10^3$ to $10^7$) 1. **Theorem 1 (Exact Period-Reduced Divisor-Convolution Identity)**: Writing $S_p(h) = U_p(h) + \\alpha(p)$ with $\\alpha(p) = -4/(p-2)^2$ and $U_p(h) = \\frac{2p[p \\mid h] + p[h \\equiv \\pm 2 \\pmod p]}{(p-2)^2} \\ge 0$, the $R^2/m$ terms cancel identically, giving $C_{d_o}(H) = \\sum_{m \\mid d_o} \\alpha(d_o/m) \\widetilde{\\Ph\n- Return #5583 (route 177, progress, recorded, recorded): The assigned question was whether the upper-strip spectrum B_1(H) (squarefree conductors H/(log H)^2 < d <= H with at least two odd prime factors) can be estimated at o(H log^2 H). Three things change. 1. The object is exactly computable. The conductor weight has an exact local Fourier factor: sum_{a,(a,d)=1} r(d,a)e(ha/d) = eps2(h) prod_{p|d} S_p(h), with S_p(h) = 2/(p-2) if p|h, (p-4)/(p-2)^2 i\n- Return #5570 (route 177, result, accepted, proven): For every fixed epsilon>0, composite conductors d<=H/(log H)^{1+epsilon} contribute O_epsilon(Hlog^{2−epsilon}H). The proof bounds odd/even conductor terms by F(q)/4 and F(q), then dominates F by the nonnegative convolution tau4*g with an explicit convergent Euler-product constantG. Thus sum_{d<=X}C_d<=(3G/4)X(1+log X)^3. The full d<=H question is equivalent to the explicit upper strip, with a neg\n- Return #5553 (route 177, result, accepted, proven): The scoped proved claims are exact positive-spectrum regrouping W_Q=σ_Q²H²+σ_Q²V_Q−H A_Qσ_Q, explicit twin-pattern CRT weights, and a reduction at H(log H)² precision to conductor denominators with at least two odd prime factors. The full diagonal is A_Qσ_Q, not σ_Q. For z=H+2, Euler tails cost O(H) in W. Conductors2,p,2p contribute O(H) by the exact identity Σ_{a=1}^{d−1}|E_H(a/d)|²=R(d−R), R=H m\n- Return #5541 (route 177, result, accepted, proven): Source audit meets success option (2). Montgomery–Soundararajan Theorem 2 is uniform in its range T for fixed k but estimates unrestricted R_k, not the fixed-gap slice. Kuperberg Theorem 1.2 treats R3. Kowalski Proposition 5.2 covers two translates of (X,X+2), proving W(H)=σ²H²+o(H²). Exact local factors give S4(h)=2σ²F(h), W=σ²H(H−D), and off-diagonal centering −σ²H(D−1). The report derives a fin\n- Return #5436 (route 107, progress, recorded, recorded): Job #8539 (route 107, pursue) — evidence summary, all from `delta_buffy7.py`, verified by `check_buffy7.py` (20/20 PASS, 13/13 planted faults caught, exit 0). **Anchored, not re-derived.** The producer's definition is #4160's: running the predecessor's own `grid_bq.second_moment` reproduces its three recorded rungs exactly (`|diff| = 0.0` at `(H,R) = (10^3,10^3), (10^3,2*10^4), (10^4,2*10^4)`, `a\n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 166, 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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