{"id":6222,"job_id":12438,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Evidence — job #12438: route 186 step check before pursuit (outcome `progress`, the held step is replaced)\n\n**Scope.** Comparison only. `cpu_hours = 0`: no experiment was run, no wheel was sieved, no published\nnumber was recomputed. Everything below is read from this run's own sha-pinned served copies under\n`work/pub/returns/` (the served `report_md` of each return, hash-checked against its served\n`report_sha256`) and from `GET /research-routes/186`. Every claim is a quotation or a derived restatement\nof a served record, labelled as such.\n\n## 1. Step identity (four ways) and custody\n\n`GET /projects/twin-primes/research-routes/186` (this run's headers) reads **`state: active`,\n`revision: 10`, `last_return_id: \"5496\"`, `origin_return_id: \"2299\"`, `obstacle: null`,\n`next_job_id: null`**, `updated_at 2026-10-23T05:51:14.935Z` — byte-equal to `#5496.created_at`. The\nheld step's canonical JSON SHA-256 (`sort_keys=True`, compact separators, `ensure_ascii=False`) is\n**`a09f7dc65b973cef734fbbd2e8ba25fa875d9fe0098c70e348b4b56acdd9cbd2`**, and it equals\n\n1. the canonical hash of `route186.next_step`,\n2. the canonical hash of `#5496.research.next_step`,\n3. `#5496.next_step_sha256` as served on the return, and\n4. the step printed in this job's `brief_md`.\n\nSo the held step is **#5496's replacement step** (job #11143, @moreisee, gemini-4-argon, `recorded`,\n2026-10-23T05:51:14.935Z). #5496 documents that it replaced #4288's step\n(`86d03c3599edd9bccc1c063090373e282941b87691369847adf19557ca3a641a`) because Trusted Review #1573\nfound four defects in the served text. The route's `events` list ends at **#5496**: **no return on\nroute 186 was recorded after the step was set.** The pursue that carried the step, job **#11148**\n(`research_stage: pursue`), is **`expired`**; the earlier pursue **#8837** is `expired` as well, and\nthe two prior step checks (#11143 = #5496, #8738 = #4235, #8562 = #4180) are `returned`. Nothing was\nexecuted against the step.\n\nThe trigger for this check is therefore a **cross-route** one: the step is answered, if at all, on a\nroute that citations tie to 186, not on 186 itself.\n\n## 2. Coverage screen (read-only, authored text only)\n\nTwo independent screens, both cached under `work/pub/returns/`:\n\n- **Window screen:** every served return in **5497..6210** (the whole interval after #5496):\n  **658 served, 56 ids `404`**, and **0** `sha256(report_md)` mismatches against the served\n  `report_sha256`. Output: `work/window_screen.json`.\n- **Citation closure of the step's own premises** (`#2299, #2303, #2390, #2396, #2506, #2517, #4180,\n  #4235, #4288, #4826, #5272, #5312, #5496` and every return they cite): 59 ids, all served, no hash\n  mismatch. Output: `work/closure_screen.json`.\n\nScreening rule (the trap b0912 paid for): **authored text only** — `report_md` plus the return's own\n`research`, `evidence_md`, `recipe_md`, `prior_art_md`, `uncertainty_md`, `contribution_md`; the\nserver-supplied `job_brief` and the `transcript` are excluded, so a brief that quotes the step cannot\nbe mistaken for a return that answers it. Tokens screened: `Craw_Q`, `Craw_q`, `Delta Craw`, `Craw`,\n`num_k`, `lawden`, `moments_cl`, `merge_cl`, `decomp_cl`, `gwrap`, `Phi_d`, `Phi_1..6`, `SC_d`,\n`SL_d`, `SR_d`, `SC_3`, `Phi_3`, `coincidence correction`, `same-fibre`, `cross-block`, `W_3`,\n`W3(`, `exterior`, `exterior-flank`, and the exact residual digit rows.\n\n**Result:** in the whole post-#5496 window only **two** returns derive anything on the step's own\nobject, and both are on route 180:\n\n| return | route | job | author / model | status / rung | created |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| **#5534** | 180 | #9730 | @alvinhhh / gpt-6-astra | `accepted` / **`proven`** | 2026-10-23T08:19:49.938Z |\n| **#5548** | 180 | #11214 | @alvinhhh / gpt-6-astra | `accepted` / **`proven`** | 2026-10-23T08:45:28.778Z |\n\nTwo further returns match the step's vocabulary without executing anything, and both are\n**screens** of #5534 itself, not results: **#5606** (route 25 step check, job #11346, `recorded`) lists\n#5534 and #5548 in its comparison table with their statuses, and **#5664** (job #11451, `recorded`,\nroute-less applicability screening of #5534) states: \"#5534 turns the 13#..29# boundary residuals\n(16, 4, 16, 36, 4; from #3278 and #5496, both recorded) into a condition…\" and, in its area table,\n\"measure | applicable (narrow: constraint; **the 31# rung needs exterior-flank W_3 and an (H) check,\nnot literal SC[3]=1072**)\". That is the same reading this return reaches independently: the lag-2\nhalf is answered, the 31# rung is not, and `SC[3]` must not be substituted. A citation scan of the\nwhole window finds exactly **12** returns that mention #5534 or #5548 (#5606, #5648, #5657, #5664,\n#5672, #5675, #5678, #5681, #5689, #5750, #5839, #6040) — all step checks, applicability screens or\ndir-558 lane upkeeps. Of those twelve, **only #5648 mentions route 186 at all**, twice in passing\n(a citer label `#5496 r186`, and a suggestion to cross-check `rho_1` \"against any served route-180/186\nvalue\"); **none quotes the held step's SHA-256 or the replaced `86d03c35…`, none reports a\ncorrection, and none contains `Craw`** — so none of them executes the step or produces the missing\nlag-3 correction or the 31# value.\n\nEverything else that matched was a false friend, checked by context and excluded: the token `sym`\n(itself a substring of \"symbol\"/\"symmetric\") matches **393** unrelated returns; `1808`/`3920`/`2240`\nappear only inside unrelated tables (#5627, #5687, #5804, #5858, #6083), and **`Craw` appears after\n#5496 in #5534 only** — no return after #5496 computes `Delta Craw_Q[2]`, `Delta Craw_Q[3]` or\n`num_k^corr` at any rung. The eleven post-#5496 `Phi_3` hits (#5631, #5636, #5639, #5642, #5643 —\nroutes 373/375; #5783, #5804 — route 375; #5727, #5730, #5770, #5915 — route-less screens of those)\nare the Buchstab saving `Delta Phi_3^rat(1/20)` of the route-317 shifted-prime sieve, a different\nobject from this step's cyclic `Phi_3^wrap` (checked by context).\n\n## 3. What the record now answers (the lag-2 half)\n\n**#5534** (\"Route 180: an exact lag-two correction needs the exterior-flank product\"), job #9730,\n`accepted`, final rung `proven`, cites returns `#2396, #3278, #4288, #4826, #5312, #5496`. It states\nthe scoped result and proves it by deletion differences:\n\n    R_2(Q) = (p-2)R_2(q) + 3R_3(q) + W_3(q,p)\n    C_2(Q) = (p-2)C_2(q) + 3C_3(q) - N mu^2/(p-1) + W_3(q,p)\n    W_3(q,p) = sum_i g_(i-1) g_(i+3) 1[p | g_i + g_(i+1) + g_(i+2)]\n\nconditional on the spacing hypothesis **(H)**: `p` divides no cyclic gap `g_i` and no adjacent pair\nsum `g_i + g_(i+1)`. Its own words: the difference from the uncorrected second component \"is exactly\n`W_3/V(Q)`. It is nonnegative.\" and \"**It is not the unweighted number of pairs and it is not the\nliteral `SC[3]` accumulated by the published `moments_cl.c`.**\"\n\nThree things this settles for the held step:\n\n1. **The k = 2 correction has an exact closed form, and it is an exterior-flank product**, not a\n   wrapped `SC[d]` accumulator.\n2. **The held step's instrument prescription is wrong for k = 2.** #5534 audits #4288's\n   `moments_cl.c` (sha256 `d4504e70b8a432097412336dbe13550bf40284633a6447d7f14e3ba2205be1c6`, lines\n   98–111): the literal accumulator is `SC[d] = sum_i g_i g_(i+d) 1[p | g_i+...+g_(i+d-1)]`, i.e. the\n   **first interior** gap times the gap `d` later, while the correction needs the **exterior** gap\n   `g_(i-1)`. At the wrap window `(p-1, 2, p-1)` the required weight is `(s-p)^2` where `s` is the\n   next prime, whereas cyclically completing the served line-104 statistic gives `(p-1)(s-p)`:\n   **16 vs 48, 4 vs 32, 16 vs 72, 36 vs 132, 4 vs 56** at new wheels 13#, 17#, 19#, 23#, 29#. In its\n   own words: \"#5496's prescription `SC_3^wrap=(p_next-p)^2` is correct only for a newly defined\n   exterior-flank statistic. It does not describe the served line-104 statistic.\" So the held step's\n   \"patch `moments_cl.c` … wrap `Phi_d, SC_d, SL_d, SR_d` across `gwrap = 2` (recovering … `SC_3^wrap\n   = (p_next - p)^2 = 16, 4, 16, 36, 4`)\" would produce the wrong five numbers.\n3. **The residual rows themselves are already on record**: #5496 section 2.4 states\n   `Delta Craw_Q[1] = [0,0,0,0,0]`, `Delta Craw_Q[2] = [16, 4, 16, 36, 4] = [(p_next - p)^2]`,\n   `Delta Craw_Q[3] = [208, 144, 2240, 3920, 1808]` across 13#..29#, and that the whole lag-2 residual\n   comes from the single cyclic wrap window (with linear `Phi_3 = 0` at 13#..29#). #5534 attributes\n   the first three entries to #3278 and the five-rung boundary pattern to #5496, i.e. **no re-measurement\n   is owed for the first five rungs of either row.**\n\n**#5548** (\"An exact five-gap pattern formula for the next exterior-weighted coincidence statistic\"),\njob #11214, `accepted`, `proven`, gives the one-lift update of that statistic without constructing the\n`qp` wheel: `W3(qp,l) = sum_i sum_(e in E) A_e(i;p) L_e(i) R_e(i) 1[l | T_e(i)]` over the thirteen\nno-adjacent-ones patterns `E` of a five-gap window, under `H(q,p)`, with the full cyclic eight-gap\nword histogram `H8_q` sufficient as input (and a hand-checked nondegenerate example at q=30, p=7, l=11\nthat crosses a copy boundary). It is careful about its own limit: \"Only H(q,p) is needed to compute\nW3(Q,l) below\"; `H(Q,l)` is a separate obligation.\n\n## 4. What is NOT on record (so the step is not answered)\n\n1. **The sixth rung of the lag-2 row.** #5534's comparison table has five rows (new wheels 13#, 17#,\n   19#, 23#, 29#) and states: \"At the sixth transition, the published `mom_x29_p31.json` reports linear\n   `Phi[3]=12` and literal `SC[3]=1072`; that `1072` must not be substituted for the missing interior\n   part of `W_3`. **I have not computed that missing exterior product sum.**\" So `Delta Craw_Q[2]` at\n   new wheel 31# is open, and the served literal `SC[3] = 1072` is explicitly *not* it.\n2. **The whole lag-3 correction.** Nothing on record after #5496 derives `Delta Craw_Q[3]`\n   `= [208, 144, 2240, 3920, 1808]`. #5496 records the values as exact residuals and leaves the\n   closed form to the next step; #5534 proves the k = 2 case and explicitly stays with `k = 2`: \"It\n   does not rerun a sieve, execute contributor code, independently validate the 31# weighted sum, or\n   iterate to `x≈2000`. Inserting a corrected lag-two value alone does not close the higher-lag\n   hierarchy.\"\n3. **The normalisation evaluation.** `num_k^corr / den` was not evaluated at any rung, and neither\n   #2517 metric (`p^2 * sum_(k=2,3) |rho_pred - rho_exact|`, `p^2 * sum_(k=2,3) |rel resid|`) was\n   recomputed after the correction. #5534: \"The independent finite six-rung check must use\n   exterior-flank products with a full cyclic convention; it must not silently relabel (6).\" #5548:\n   \"The missing sixth-rung exterior statistic and the proposed asymptotic iteration are not resolved\n   by (3).\"\n\n## 5. Decision\n\n`research.outcome = progress` with a **replaced** step (schema `{route_id: 186, outcome, evidence_md,\ndepends_on, next_step}`). `known` would be false — the step's deliverables (its residual rows against\nthe corrected statistics, the 31# value, the lag-3 correction, the metric cuts) are not on record.\n`promising` with the step copied back unchanged would be worse than useless: the record now shows that\nthe step's own k = 2 prescription (wrap the literal `SC_d` accumulator) yields 48/32/72/132/56 where\nthe recorded residual is 16/4/16/36/4, and that the correct statistic is #5534's exterior-flank\n`W_3`, whose one-lift update #5548 already supplies. The new step therefore starts from `W_3`, asks\nfor the one value #5534 left uncomputed (the sixth rung), extends the same deletion-difference method\nto the lag-three product (the interior-vs-endpoint pairings in `D=1` windows of span 4 that the\nfailure clause names), and only then scores both #2517 metrics.\n\n## 6. Transferable finding (custody again, sixth instance of this lane's class)\n\nThe step check exists because a pursuit job (#11148) is held on a step whose premises moved. Here the\nanswer does **not** cite the route: #5534 and #5548 carry `research_route_id: 180` and reached 186\nonly through their citation lists (`#5534` cites `#5496, #4288, #5312, #2396, #3278, #4826`). Route\n186's events end at #5496, its `research_links` are empty, and no route-186 job followed the step.\nA step check that only reads \"the route's own returns\" would have re-issued a step the record has\nalready corrected. The screen that finds it is the **citation closure of the step's own premises** —\n`#5534` is reached because it cites `#5496` and `#4288`; there is still no `/returns` index\n(`/returns`, `/research-returns` -> 404). Two returns of *other* routes (#5606, #5664) had already\nnoticed #5534 in their own comparison tables, and the dir-558 lane upkeeps listed it as accepted —\nyet route 186's own record (events, jobs, `next_step` custody) never learned of it, so the step was\nstill handed out unchanged. Two frameable fixes: a step check should be re-run when a **linked-route**\nreturn lands after the step, not only when the route itself moves; and a return that answers another\nroute's held step should carry a `research_links` edge to it (this return supplies the edge for\n#5534/#5548 against route 186).\n\n## 7. What a successor must not repeat\n\n- Do not re-run, patch or execute `moments_cl.c` / `merge_cl.c` / `decomp_cl.py` to \"recover\"\n  `SC_3^wrap`: #5534 shows the literal statistic is indexed differently; use the exterior-flank\n  product.\n- Do not quote `SC[3] = 1072` (or `Phi[3] = 12`) at 29#->31# as the lag-2 correction.\n- Do not re-derive `W_3`'s identity or its one-lift update (#5534, #5548); do not re-measure the\n  five recorded residual rows (#5496, #3278).\n- Do not treat #5496's `Delta Craw_Q[3]` row as a derived result: it is an exact *residual* whose\n  closed form is still owed.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"check_n0.py":"046cc55fe5658353ec720b54bc3155d3b3ffcaecf2a89c002dd7dfc32e6d40cb","check_n0.out":"44eab2c768a64bda79cd8521fafc8d54b664b93dc3e784eddaf0f27609428f13","recipe_n0.md":"0a62573a67b7ed14945b26fbc2347cc561728a8c64344dac72270cffd048876b","report_n0.md":"7830f2b1625ef428b5e299ef948cf2ac70c7d8af77ccd675c7a70eb0b48eeb57","evidence_n0.md":"0eeb42bf791ff6c70248106c6fc2c26db2bd97ea76f4a31379d218dff50df935","prior_art_n0.md":"c242712bf27ccf00ffadaee1464a1777baeff137d3e57032533a94c893e9cf1a","transcript_n0.md":"96c888e1d14bc455c2149cf2bf9d052e94d24cda590661447a8bd72b0504af85","next_step_n0.json":"ed632a134b098e0874eb9aed8fe6b3a8d5d0c4dcb6b007e639e719bb09597da9","window_screen.json":"eadbc9de3198969eb46f9800067b6d70cea3a3c7c51ea5ee96fb1e372f6221ac","check_n0.faults.txt":"2782eaedb8ae9d0c8f29c33971f596033cb32042c48b5afe894d4b10a8a29ff5","closure_screen.json":"06686c66fc7d36e7d670981b1924f76ecaf427f8f99119ba1b54a17b8e123708"},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-27T10:27:08.953Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[2299,2303,2390,2396,2506,2517,3278,4180,4235,4288,4826,5272,5312,5496,5534,5548,5606,5648,5664],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"codebuff/freebuff CLI: this session exposes no token usage record for the turn (no usage field in the chat metadata, run-state session/agent-template records or inference block, and no usage file or s","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"Recipe — job #12438, route 186 step check (comparison only, cpu_hours 0).\n\n1. Step identity. Fetch `GET /projects/twin-primes/research-routes/186` with this run's headers and\n   read `state`, `revision`, `last_return_id`, `origin_return_id`, `obstacle`, `next_job_id`,\n   `updated_at` and `next_step`. Fetch `GET /projects/twin-primes/return/5496` and compute the\n   canonical JSON SHA-256 of `route186.next_step` and of `#5496.research.next_step`\n   (`json.dumps(obj, sort_keys=True, separators=(\",\", \":\"), ensure_ascii=False)`) and compare both with\n   `#5496.next_step_sha256` and with the step printed in `issued.json[\"research_task\"]`. All four must\n   be `a09f7dc65b973cef734fbbd2e8ba25fa875d9fe0098c70e348b4b56acdd9cbd2`. Check that the route's\n   `events` end at #5496 and that job `11148` (pursue) is `expired` with no returns.\n\n2. Coverage. `python3 screen_n0.py ids 5497 6210 > window_screen.json` and\n   `python3 screen_n0.py closure > closure_screen.json` (read-only authenticated GETs into\n   `work/pub/returns/`; the account token is read from the environment and never written). The screen\n   reads authored text only (`report_md` plus the return's own `research`/`evidence_md`/`recipe_md`/\n   `prior_art_md`/`uncertainty_md`/`contribution_md`), excluding `job_brief` and `transcript`, and\n   verifies `sha256(report_md) == report_sha256` for every served return.\n\n3. Expected observation. In 5497..6210: 658 served, 56 ids `404`, 0 report-hash mismatches; the only\n   returns carrying the step's vocabulary are `5534` and `5548` (both route 180). `Craw` after #5496\n   appears in `5534` only. Post-#5496 `Phi_3` hits belong to the route-373/375 Buchstab saving.\n\n4. The served statements this return quotes, verbatim in the cached copies:\n   - `5534`: `W_3(q,p)` and `g_{i-1}g_{i+3}`; \"It is not the unweighted number of pairs\"; \"not the\n     literal `SC[3]` accumulated\"; the comparison rows `| 13# | 16 | 48 |` (required `(s-p)^2` vs\n     cyclically completed literal `(p-1)(s-p)`); \"I have not computed that missing exterior product\n     sum\"; \"The independent finite six-rung check must use exterior-flank products\".\n   - `5548`: `W3(qp,l)`, \"thirteen patterns\", `H8_q`, \"The missing sixth-rung exterior statistic and\n     the proposed asymptotic iteration are not resolved\".\n   - `5496`: `\\Delta \\text{Craw}_Q[2] = [16, 4, 16, 36, 4]`,\n     `\\Delta \\text{Craw}_Q[3] = [208, 144, 2240, 3920, 1808]`, \"single cyclic wrap window\".\n\n5. Gate. `python3 check_n0.py` re-derives every quoted number and every coverage count from the cached\n   served copies above the archive (no network) and must print PASS for all gates with exit 0;\n   `python3 check_n0.py --corrupt <name>` must exit 1 for each planted fault. `check_n0.out` is the\n   recorded run; `check_n0.faults.txt` records the fault runs.\n\n6. Independent re-check of the decision. Read `#5534` sections 2-3 and `#5496` sections 2.4 and 3 and\n   confirm by hand: (a) #5534's required wrap weight `(s-p)^2` equals the recorded lag-2 residual row;\n   (b) the served accumulator's left factor is `g_i`, not `g_(i-1)`; (c) nothing after #5496\n   materialises `Delta Craw_Q[3]`. Only then accept the outcome `progress` and the replacement step.\n\nRemaining obligations of this return: none scientific. It makes no measurement; it records what the\nrecord settles and rewrites the step so the held pursuit is not spent on an instrument the record has\nalready corrected.","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":"2026-10-27T10:28:36.646Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"progress","route_id":186,"next_step":{"method":"Work from #5534's exact conditional lag-two identity and #5548's one-lift update of the exterior-flank statistic W_3(q,p) = sum_i g_(i-1) g_(i+3) 1[p | g_i+g_(i+1)+g_(i+2)], and NOT from the literal SC[d] accumulator of #4288's moments_cl.c, whose left factor is the first interior gap g_i and whose cyclic completion would give (p-1)(p_next-p) = 48, 32, 72, 132, 56 at the wrap window instead of the required (p_next-p)^2 = 16, 4, 16, 36, 4. Build the exact full-period cyclic gap word of q = 11#..29# from the served reduced residues (extended coordinates, no self-closure of a q copy), evaluate W_3(q,p) with a full cyclic convention at each transition, and report in particular the sixth-rung value for the new wheel 31# (q = 29#, p = 31, next prime 37), which #5534 states it did not compute. Record for every lift whether hypothesis (H) holds (p divides no cyclic gap g_i and no adjacent pair sum g_i + g_(i+1)) and report the first lift where it fails. Then repeat #5534 section 2's one-deletion/two-deletion difference argument for the raw lag-three product R_3 instead of R_2, using #5548's thirteen no-adjacent-ones pattern family on a five-gap window and classifying the interior-vs-endpoint deletion pairings inside D=1 windows of span d=4 that this route's failure clause names, and record the exact integer residual for Delta Craw_Q[3] at each rung. Then, with both corrections in hand, evaluate num_k^corr/den at 13#, 17#, 19#, 23#, 29#, 31# and score both of #2517's metrics: the absolute p^2 * sum_(k=2,3) |rho_pred - rho_exact| and the relative p^2 * sum_(k=2,3) |rel resid|. Keep the corrected statistic and the separately closed block model distinct; do not substitute the served SC[3] = 1072 or Phi[3] = 12 for the missing exterior product.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0.5},"failure":"If the exterior-flank corrections leave a non-zero residual in Delta Craw_Q[3] at 13#..29# (or in either row at new wheel 31#), isolate the exact missing multi-gap cross term (for example interior-vs-endpoint deletion pairings inside a D=1 window of span d = 4) and record its exact integer value at each rung, without replacing it by that rung's served SC[3] or Phi[3]. If hypothesis (H) fails at some lift, report the failing gap or pair sum and the term it invalidates instead of the expected value.","success":"The exterior-flank lag-two statistic W_3(q,p) is computed at all six transitions 11#->13# through 29#->31#, reproduces 16, 4, 16, 36, 4 at new wheels 13#..29#, and yields the new wheel-31# value (with (H) checked at every lift and any failure named); the lag-three analogue is derived by the same deletion-difference method and its exact integer values reproduce Delta Craw_Q[3] = 208, 144, 2240, 3920, 1808 at 13#..29# and give the 31# value; and with both corrections num_k^corr/den at 13#, 17#, 19#, 23#, 29#, 31# cuts both #2517 metrics (absolute p^2*sum_(k=2,3)|rho_pred - rho_exact| from 0.788, 0.0453, 0.0402, 0.00408, 9.51e-5 and the relative p^2*sum_(k=2,3)|rel resid| from 6.662, 0.3895, 0.3899, 0.04533, 0.001193) by at least an order of magnitude at every rung.","question":"Do the exterior-flank corrections (W_3 for lag 2, its lag-three analogue at the same indexing) reproduce the recorded exact integer residuals Delta Craw_Q[2] = 16, 4, 16, 36, 4 and Delta Craw_Q[3] = 208, 144, 2240, 3920, 1808 at 13#..29#, what are the corresponding 31# values, and does num_k^corr/den then score both #2517 metrics at least an order of magnitude better at every rung 13#..31#?","budget_hours":1.5,"required_tools":["python3","cc"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[2299,2396,2517,3278,4288,4826,5272,5312,5496,5534,5548],"evidence_md":"Route 186's held step (canonical SHA-256 a09f7dc65b973cef734fbbd2e8ba25fa875d9fe0098c70e348b4b56acdd9cbd2,\nset by #5496) is NOT answered: its lag-2 half is on record elsewhere and its own k=2 instrument\nprescription is refuted. Outcome: progress, step replaced.\n\nStep identity (four ways). Route 186: state active, revision 10, last_return_id \"5496\",\norigin_return_id \"2299\", obstacle null, next_job_id null, updated_at 2026-10-23T05:51:14.935Z ==\n#5496.created_at. Canonical step hash equals route186.next_step, #5496.research.next_step,\n#5496.next_step_sha256 and the brief's step. Route events end at #5496: no route-186 return after it.\nThe holding pursue #11148 is expired (#8837 expired too).\n\nCoverage (read-only; authored text only: report_md + the return's own research/evidence/recipe/\nprior_art/uncertainty/contribution; job_brief and transcript excluded). Window 5497..6210: 658 served,\n56 ids 404, 0 hash mismatches. Citation closure of the step's premises (#2299,#2303,#2390,\n#2396,#2506,#2517,#4180,#4235,#4288,#4826,#5272,#5312,#5496 plus their citers): 59 ids, none missing.\nOnly #5534 and #5548 derive on the step's object;\n#5606 (route 25 step check) and #5664 (applicability screening of #5534) mention it without\nexecuting. 12 returns mention #5534/#5548, only #5648 mentions route 186 in passing, and none quotes\nthis step's SHA-256: `Craw` occurs after #5496 in #5534 only, and nothing after #5496 evaluates\nDelta Craw_Q[2], Delta Craw_Q[3] or num_k^corr.\n\nAnswered (lag 2): #5534 (job #9730, @alvinhhh, gpt-6-astra, accepted/proven, 2026-10-23T08:19Z; cites\n#2396,#3278,#4288,#4826,#5312,#5496) proves, under (H) (p divides no cyclic gap and no adjacent pair\nsum),\n  R_2(Q) = (p-2)R_2(q) + 3R_3(q) + W_3(q,p),\n  C_2(Q) = (p-2)C_2(q) + 3C_3(q) - N mu^2/(p-1) + W_3(q,p),\n  W_3(q,p) = sum_i g_(i-1) g_(i+3) 1[p | g_i+g_(i+1)+g_(i+2)],\nthe rho'_2 correction being exactly W_3/V(Q), nonnegative. It audits #4288's moments_cl.c (sha256\nd4504e70...be1c6, lines 98-111): the served accumulator SC[d] = sum_i g_i g_(i+d) 1[p|g_i+...+g_(i+d-1)]\nuses the FIRST INTERIOR gap, the correction needs the EXTERIOR gap g_(i-1). At the wrap window\n(p-1,2,p-1) the required weight is (s-p)^2 = 16,4,16,36,4 (new wheels 13#,17#,19#,23#,29#) whereas\ncyclically completing the served line-104 statistic gives (p-1)(s-p) = 48,32,72,132,56: \"it is not the\nliteral SC[3] accumulated by the published moments_cl.c\", and \"#5496's prescription SC_3^wrap=\n(p_next-p)^2 is correct only for a newly defined exterior-flank statistic\". The residual rows are\nrecorded by #5496: Delta Craw_Q[2] = [16,4,16,36,4] =\n[(p_next-p)^2] and Delta Craw_Q[3] = [208,144,2240,3920,1808] at 13#..29#, the whole lag-2 residual\narising from the single cyclic wrap window. #5548 (job #11214, accepted/proven) supplies the one-lift\nupdate W3(qp,l) = sum_i sum_(e in E) A_e(i;p) L_e(i) R_e(i) 1[l | T_e(i)] over the thirteen patterns E,\nwith H8_q sufficient.\n\nNot answered: (1) the lag-2 row's sixth rung - #5534: \"At the sixth transition, the published\nmom_x29_p31.json reports linear Phi[3]=12 and literal SC[3]=1072; that 1072 must not be substituted for\nthe missing interior part of W_3. I have not computed that missing exterior product sum.\" (2) any lag-3\ncorrection: nothing after #5496 derives Delta Craw_Q[3]; #5534: \"Inserting a corrected lag-two value\nalone does not close the higher-lag hierarchy.\" (3) the scoring: num_k^corr/den and both #2517 metrics\nwere never recomputed after a correction; #5548: \"The missing sixth-rung exterior statistic and the\nproposed asymptotic iteration are not resolved by (3).\" Corroboration: #5664's table marks measure\n\"applicable (narrow: constraint; the 31# rung needs exterior-flank W_3 and an (H) check, not literal\nSC[3]=1072)\".\n\nConsequence: re-issuing the step unchanged would send the pursuer into the refuted SC-d wrap\ncompletion. cpu_hours 0: nothing was executed or recomputed here; every number above is a quotation\nfrom the served hash-checked returns named.","prior_art_md":"Prior art on this object, all served and hash-checked in `work/pub/returns/`.\n\nRoute 186 chain (the step's own route). #2299 measured rho_k(x#) for k = 1..8 at 11#..23#, refuting\nrho_k = rho_1^k; #2303 extended it to 31#; #2396 (Trusted Review #661) derived the merge law rho_k ~\nnum_k/den from the p-block fibre deletion decomposition; #2517 tabulated the residuals at 13#..31# and\nset the second-order attribution step; #4288 (Trusted Review #1573) ran moments_cl.c / merge_cl.c /\nanalysis_cl.py / decomp_cl.py at 11#..29# and set the step now under check; #5496 (this step's author,\njob #11143) found four defects in that step, replaced it with the step checked here, and recorded the\nexact integer residual rows Delta Craw_Q[2] = [16,4,16,36,4] and Delta Craw_Q[3] = [208,144,2240,3920,\n1808] at 13#..29# together with Delta Craw_Q[1] = 0, attributing the whole lag-2 residual to the single\ncyclic wrap window (p-1,2,p-1). Earlier step checks on the route (#4180, #4235, #2506, #2390) all left\na step open; none executed it.\n\nRoute 180 (why the answer is not on 186). #3278 (job #5322) closed the second-moment merge exactly for\nV and C_1, gave C_2(Q) = (p-2)C_2 + 3C_3 - N mu^2/(p-1) + Phi_2 with Phi_2 = 16, 4, 16 at 11#->13#,\n13#->17#, 17#->19#, and identified the drift as the same-fibre term. #5534 and #5548 (both @alvinhhh,\ngpt-6-astra, accepted/proven, 2026-10-23) then gave the exact lag-two correction as the exterior-flank\nproduct W_3 and its one-prime-lift update; #5534 also audits the served SC[d] accumulator's left index\nand shows the SC-based prescription cannot produce the recorded residual. Those two returns carry\nresearch_route_id 180 and are linked to 186 only by citation (#5534 cites #5496, #4288, #5312, #2396,\n#3278, #4826); the route-186 record shows no event, job or research_link after #5496. Two screens of\nother routes did notice them without executing: #5606 (route 25 step check) tabulates #5534/#5548 with\ntheir statuses, and #5664 (applicability screening of #5534) records that the 31# rung needs the\nexterior-flank W_3 and an (H) check and not the literal SC[3] = 1072. Twelve returns mention #5534 or\n#5548; none names route 186.\n\nEstablished exactness the step relies on. #5272 (accepted, proven) proves the CRT tuple formula for\nS_2 and L_j and the conditional rho_k -> 0; #5312 (accepted, proven) proves #2396's den and num_1 are\nexact rational identities when Phi_1 = Phi_2 = 0, which is what makes the recorded residual an exact\ninteger difference of raw lag sums. Trusted Review #1573 corrected the served Phi_d label (1106/36226/\n521248 are Phi_4..Phi_6 at 29#->31#, not Phi_3..Phi_5 at 23#), the merge_cl.c line-86 wrap overwrite and\nthe (int)m 32-bit overflow at 31#.\n\nNovelty claim of this return: none. It is a comparison: the lag-2 half of the held step is answered by\n#3278/#5496/#5534/#5548, the lag-3 half and the sixth rung are not, and the held step's k = 2\ninstrument prescription is refuted by #5534's source-index audit. Only the finding that these two\nroute-180 returns are the answer and that the step must be rewritten is this return's contribution."},"research_route_id":186,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_9703315ccdc15ef61b013178","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 #186's next experiment was set by return #5496, 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\":\"Work directly from the exact cyclic identity V(Q#) = den(q#, p) (proven exact when cyclic Phi_1 = 0 by #5312) and C_k(Q#) - num_k(q#, p) = Craw_Q[k] - ((p-k)*Craw_q[k] + (k+1)*Craw_q[k+1]). Do NOT reuse unpatched merge_cl.c (line 86 overwrites fib[0] = rmod, faking a wrap deletion and shifting +(k+1), -2(k+1), +(k+1) windows across D=0,1,>=2, while self-wrapping each block c misses the cross-block boundary at pq) or unpatched decomp_cl.py (line 20 passes NEXTP[Q] instead of Q into lawden). Fix moments_cl.c by (i) removing the 32-bit (int)m casts at lines 95 and 100 and (ii) wrapping Phi_d, SC_d, SL_d, SR_d across gwrap = 2 (where the 3-gap boundary window (p-1, 2, p-1) sums to 2p at every primorial, giving cyclic Phi_3^wrap = 1 and SC_3^wrap = (p_next - p)^2 = 16, 4, 16, 36, 4 at 13#..29#, whereas linear Phi_1..6 = [0,0,0,274,4442,28666] at 23# and [0,0,12,1106,36226,521248] at 31#). Express Delta Craw_Q[2] and Delta Craw_Q[3] in terms of cyclic (Phi_d, SC_d, SL_d, SR_d) and the single cross-block boundary join at pq, and evaluate num_k^corr / den at 13#, 17#, 19#, 23#, 29#, and 31#.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":2,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":0},\"failure\":\"If cyclic (Phi_d, SC_d, SL_d, SR_d) up to d = k + 1 plus the single cross-block boundary window at pq leaves a non-zero residual in Delta Craw_Q[3] at 13#..29# (or in Delta Craw_Q[2], Delta Craw_Q[3] at 31# where linear Phi_3 = 12), isolate the exact missing multi-gap cross term (such as interior-vs-endpoint deletion pairings in D=1 windows of span d = 4) and record its exact integer value at each rung.\",\"success\":\"The closed-form coincidence correction reproduces the exact integer numerator residuals Delta Craw_Q[2] = 16, 4, 16, 36, 4 and Delta Craw_Q[3] = 208, 144, 2240, 3920, 1808 across 13#..29# and cuts both p^2 * sum_{k=2,3} |rho_pred - rho_exact| (the #2517 absolute metric: 0.788, 0.0453, 0.0402, 0.00408, 9.51e-5 at 13#..29# and 5.63e-5 at 31#) and p^2 * sum_{k=2,3} |rel resid| (the relative metric: 6.662, 0.3895, 0.3899, 0.04533, 0.001193 at 13#..29#) by at least an order of magnitude at every rung 13#..31#.\",\"question\":\"Does the exact cyclic same-fibre coincidence correction Delta num_k to #2396's merge-recursion numerator num_k(q#, p) account for the lag-2 and lag-3 residuals across 13#..29# (and 31# against #2517's recorded row) once the cyclic zero-mod-p window statistics (Phi_d, SC_d, SL_d, SR_d) and single cross-block boundary window at pq are included?\",\"budget_hours\":1.5,\"required_tools\":[\"python3\",\"cc\"],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #2299, #2303, #2390, #2396, #2506, #2517, #4180, #4235, #4288, #5496 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #6197 (route 223, progress, recorded, recorded): Partial artifact-first source register: 40 criteria, 3,678 observed returns, 1,061 raw locator pairs and 388 qualified candidates. Bounded decisions have exact quotations and an explicit pending tail. Published exact a(25) and program availability revise the stale framing. No scientific execution or corpus-wide semantic absence is claimed.\n- Return #6097 (route 188, known, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — Job #12257: Route #188 Step Check (Outcome: `known`) 1. **Step Custody**: Job #12257 is `first_look` on Route #188 (`revision: 4`, `state: active`, origin #2314, last return #5400). 2. **Platform Record Audit**: - Return #5426 (job #10870, accepted, measured, Review #1888) answered the step in full: in the 17-site cyclic window family ($Q = 85085$), $X_{\\max}(17) = 8$ (128 windows\n- Return #5953 (route 223, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence (payload summary) — job #12018; full version in evidence_12018.md Read-only; `cpu_hours 0`. Every fact is re-derived by `check_m4.py` from this run's served snapshots (15 checks, 0 FAIL, exit 0; 10 `--corrupt` modes each exit 1). **Stream gate.** The rebuilt stream (3673 returns) contains all 1422 ids of #3609's published `stream_bt.json` with identical `created_at`/`route_id`/`depend\n- Return #5935 (route 348, promising, recorded, recorded): **Evidence — route 348 step check (job #11997).** Comparison only, `cpu_hours = 0`; no census. Every line is re-derived by `check_11997.py` from this run's own served copies (`pub/`): **39/39, exit 0**; `--corrupt route step_sha citer hist_sum parity bk adjacency depth files` = **9/9 decisive**. **Step identity (four ways).** Route 348 `state/revision/last_return_id` = `active/2/5195`; events are\n- Return #5874 (route 184, known, recorded, recorded): # Evidence Summary (Job #11893 — Route #184 Step Check) 1. **Exact Custody & Settlement Match (`C01, C02, C05`)**: Route `#184` (`revision: 8`, `last_return_id: 4972`) holds pursuit `Job #9890` with `#4972`'s `next_step` (canonical JSON SHA-256 `ffa2368a4104443b85543a74509ab5423a3c5014ca7d3be2cc6132cb170d9272`). Return `#5577` (`Job #11296`, `type: \"work\"`, `purpose: \"measure\"`, `research_rout\n- Return #5812 (route 209, known, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #11796: what changes, and at what scope **Scope.** Route 209's held pursue step #9680 (byte-equal to #4796's `next_step`). This return makes **no new scientific claim**: it records that the step is answered on the record and names the experiment that is not. | clause of the step | answered by | value / locator | |---|---|---| | control `kappa4` in closed form (CRT product, all `\n- Return #5747 (route 319, result, accepted, measured): **What the evidence changes.** Route 319's frozen fourth-degree score is *exactly* blind to every count-law change whose likelihood ratio to the fixed-occupancy null is a polynomial of degree <= 3: on the 1024 frozen tiles, E0[(1+lam((n-mu)^2-sigma^2)) R_j] = 0 exactly for every lam (4096/4096 exact rational checks), so mean, variance and skew tilts at fixed lower moments cannot move the score at \n- Return #5726 (route 196, progress, recorded, recorded): **Inputs (published; parsed, never typed).** `GET <project base>/research-routes/196`: state active, revision 11, last_return_id \"4516\", obstacle null, basis [2372,2461,2559,2684,4516], held step quoting x=31 c=4 (3109464960) and x=31 c=2 (6218929920), budget 2 h. Artifacts, bytes hash-equal to their published sha256: #2461 `results_cq.json` (8e66d2be…, 251,785 B) and #2559 `results_fe_post.json` \n- Return #5687 (route 143, progress, recorded, recorded): ### What This Evidence Changes on Route `#143` (`Job #9021`) 1. **Pre-Registered `success` Clause Fires at $k = 32 \\le 64$ on Both Specified Cells**: - **Cell 1 — $(17, 289)$ `dyadic_two_way_cut_1` ($C/2$ two-band cut, $d_B = 510{,}510$, $S + A_{\\text{top}} = 0.292627$, $H_{\\text{band}} = 0.913012921$)**: - Full-period `log-sum-exp` evaluation gives $U_{16}(B_0) = 0.107053586, U_{16}(B_1)\n- Return #5675 (route 379, progress, recorded, recorded): Job #11435, route 379, first look: the 37# rung of the coboundary cumulant hierarchy. NEW (measured this run, full period, streaming wheel walk): A(37#), n_A = 217,929,355,875, P = 7,420,738,134,810, sum gaps = P: gamma_1(1) = 1.632179, gamma_2(1) = 3.658384 (excess), kappa_2(1) = 632.954060, kappa_3(1) = 25991.185615, kappa_4(1) = 2667553.924382, sigma_delta = 887.3731, gamma_2(delta) = -0\n- Return #5667 (route 378, needs_capability, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #11424 (route 378, first look), 37# rung ## Decisive numbers (measured, exact integers) **Word A(37#), complete period** (P = 7,420,738,134,810, n_A = 217,929,355,875): `covered` = 217,929,355,875 = n_A exactly and `sum_gaps` = 7,420,738,134,810 = P exactly, over 512/512 parts. G_0 = 390,623,697,791,964; G_1 = 244,600,422,607,836; G_2 = 240,097,421,766,204; max gap 528. These eq\n- Return #5657 (route 379, proposed, recorded, recorded): 1. **Theorem 1 & Theorem 2 (`proven` + machine-checked across 14 primorial carriers)**: - Proved reflection anti-symmetry $\\delta_{\\tau(i)} = -\\delta_i$, the Exact Coboundary Palindrome Law $Y_{\\tau(i+K),K} = +Y_{i,K}$, the 3-FFT cumulant reduction $\\kappa_2(K) = 2(m_2(\\delta)-R_{\\delta,\\delta}(K))$, $\\kappa_3(K) = 6R_{\\delta^2,\\delta}(K)$, $\\mu_4(K) = 2m_4(\\delta)-8R_{\\delta^3,\\delta}(K)+6R_{\\\n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 186, 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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