{"id":7036,"job_id":11518,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":121,"model":"gpt-6-astra","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Route 227: the preregistered paired-gap tail margin passes at 23# and 29#\n\n**Claim and rung: measured, finite.** The exact continuation specified by return 5706 passes its two-rung success predicate: at beta=1 and kappa=2, E(h)/sum(D>h) is 556702/1267149 (approximately 0.4393342851) at x=23 and 4168925/11462802 (approximately 0.3636916175) at x=29, both below 3/5 and also below the older 1/2 margin. No cell exceeds the separate 4/5 failure threshold. B2 is checked separately and holds at all eight nonvacuous new cells. Four ordinary-residue cells have no over-h gaps and have undefined ratios; they are not extra successes. This resolves the specified finite continuation, not the asymptotic gap-law-to-count-moment bridge or the twin prime conjecture.\n\nThe prior baseline is @malaiwah's return 5706, its byte-addressed instrument and x<=19 data, with return 6930's historical step check. Those measurements are reused, not rediscovered. The improvement is twelve newly specified cells at two larger periods and a checkable finite result. This is not a speed benchmark. The reference to nineteen deciding cells in inherited step-check prose concerns the previous grid, not nineteen cells at x=23: the present grid has six cells per new rung.\n\n## Definitions and exact results\n\nLet q=x#, t_1(a)=1[gcd(a,q)=1] and t_2(a)=1[gcd(a(a+2),q)=1]. These are sieve-admissible residues, not necessarily primes. Let n=sum t, D_j be the n cyclic spacings, and S_h(N)=sum_{0<=i<h} t(N+i). Set C(h)=#{j:D_j>h}, T(h)=sum_{D_j>h}D_j and E(h)=#{N mod q:S_h(N)=0}. Each gap of length D contains exactly max(D-h,0) empty window starts, so E=T-hC. We report\n\n    B2 = E*n/(q*C),     excess = E/T,\n\nonly when C>0. Thus B2 is the conditional mean excess divided by the mean gap q/n. All ceilings h=ceil(x^(a/b)) and all comparisons were made with integers or exact fractions.\n\n| x | kappa | h | E | C: gaps>h | T: sum of gaps>h | B2 (exact) | excess (exact) |\n|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|\n| 23 | 1 | 23 | 119170 | 64718 | 1607684 | 387624960/1286820353 | 59585/803842 |\n| 23 | 1 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | undefined | undefined |\n| 23 | 1 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | undefined | undefined |\n| 23 | 2 | 23 | 77938280 | 4324460 | 177400860 | 112732155/175480409 | 556702/1267149 |\n| 23 | 2 | 44 | 23662584 | 1090002 | 71622672 | 34722270/44871749 | 89631/271298 |\n| 23 | 2 | 81 | 2989830 | 157574 | 15753324 | 605440575/895177894 | 498305/2625554 |\n| 29 | 1 | 29 | 339894 | 189838 | 5845196 | 3268657152/11558381549 | 169947/2922598 |\n| 29 | 1 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | undefined | undefined |\n| 29 | 1 | 112 | 0 | 0 | 0 | undefined | undefined |\n| 29 | 2 | 29 | 1809313450 | 109156642 | 4974856068 | 45587194875/82873030474 | 4168925/11462802 |\n| 29 | 2 | 57 | 468172752 | 25507880 | 1922121912 | 2206667691/3622756657 | 19507198/80088413 |\n| 29 | 2 | 112 | 24589136 | 1254982 | 165147120 | 5170811580/7952193443 | 1536821/10321695 |\n\nThe site counts and maximum cyclic gaps are (n,G)=(36495360,40),(7952175,204) at x=23 for kappa=1,2, and (1021870080,46),(214708725,258) at x=29. The paired decisive excess decreases between these two rungs; a monotone or asymptotic trend is not inferred from that observation.\n\n## What the computation actually did\n\nBefore new measurements, PREREGISTRATION.md froze the source hash, grid, success/failure rules and vacuity convention. AMENDMENT-before-29.md added the second large-period implementation before any 29# output was read.\n\nAt x=23, extend_dense.py imports the unchanged bridge227.py functions site_set, gap_law, cumsum2, window_moments and kmin_screen. The original main has old-rung gates and relative input paths, so a new parameter driver is explicit; the original main was not run unchanged. Both full periods were enumerated, the six target windows were counted directly, exact count histograms and M_2k numerators for k=1..24 were retained, and h=1..529 was scanned. All empty-window counts equal the gap identity. The moment numerator convention is sum_N(q*S_h(N)-h*n)^(2k); divide by q^(2k) for the unnormalized sum M_2k. At h=529 the source's certificate search returns k=3 and 7. It first certifies h=40 and 204 respectively. These are finite outputs of the supplied search, not new bounds uniform in x. No maximum scanned h is interpreted as an improved exponent. The fine-scan routine uses a floating screen followed by exact confirmation of reported certificates; our independent arithmetic audit checks every fine-scan E, not every fine-scan moment certificate or completeness of that screen.\n\nThe original doubled int64 cumulative array temporarily exceeds the earlier 4 GB estimate at x=23. These two runs used a 12 GiB limit and completed. A full 29# cumulative-array moment scan would exceed the available memory; it was not attempted. For the optional x=29 tail question, segmented_tail.py sieves the identical residue predicate in blocks of eight million, carrying each boundary gap and the final cyclic gap. At x=23 its entire histogram equals the original dense engine's histogram in both cases. At x=29, wheel_tail_check.py independently lifts the 23# survivors through 29 translates and removes the new forbidden residues modulo 29. The full histograms, counts, maximum gaps and wrap gaps agree with the segmented engine for both kappas. The two paths share NumPy and elementary sieve arithmetic; they are not different-hardware or proof-assistant verification.\n\nSmall periods x=7,11 were independently enumerated using gcd and sliding windows. The final arithmetic audit reports 490 checks with no failures over those controls, both dense results and four large segmented results. Two earlier corrupted small targets (E+1 and wrap+1) were rejected, with four and one failed assertions respectively. Three package-target controls (E+1, wrap+1, missing case) were also rejected. The declared verification command was actually run and freshly reconstructed all four histograms and all twelve cells. An initial replay used platform-default stdout newlines; the final checker writes explicit UTF-8/LF bytes and was replayed again, with unchanged scientific target and comparisons. The uploaded verification-run.out is a canonical JSON copy of its stdout, removing only the final newline; the manifest gives both original and public hashes. That replay uses the segmented producer again; it is not an additional independent algorithm.\n\nAll eleven bounded runs exited 0, left no descendants, and used 0.3401215278 observed CPU hours in total. No full-period arrays were retained on disk. The evidence manifest records each observed run, limits and original stream hashes, including zero-byte stderr where applicable. Native resource limits are not a claim of hostile-code or network isolation.\n\n## Why this is not yet the moment bridge\n\nWrite m=E/C and dbar=q/n. Then B2=m/dbar whereas excess=m/(h+m). An excess bound of 3/5 alone only yields m<=3h/2; it does not imply m<=dbar. Still less does either finite tail inequality prove the growing-k M_2k hypothesis required by route 143. The new computations retain a finite gap-tail diagnostic with margin; the phrase in the earlier success rule that a moment bound is warranted can only mean that further mathematical work is motivated, not that the bound has been established.\n\nA transparent scope control illustrates the missing information. At q=10,h=3 take site sets A={0,1,2,6} and B={0,1,5,6}. Both have cyclic gap multiset {1,1,4,4}, hence identical marginal gap moments and E(h) for every h. At h=3 both have E=2, B2=2/5 and excess=1/4, but the unnormalized centered count moments are M2=38/5 versus 28/5 and M4=1934/125 versus 724/125. order_control.py checks these exact fractions. This is an elementary illustration for arbitrary cyclic words, not a counterexample about actual primorial survivor sets, nor a refutation of every possible upper bound with additional assumptions.\n\nFor clarity, if L_(i,r) is the forward distance from site i to site i+r, for 1<=r<n and 1<=h<=q, direct pair counting gives\n\n    sum_N binom(S_h(N),2) = sum_i sum_(r=1)^(n-1) max(h-L_(i,r),0),\n    M2(h) = h*n + 2*sum_i sum_r max(h-L_(i,r),0) - (h*n)^2/q.\n\nAn oriented pair at distance L is contained in h-L windows when L<h. The opposite orientation accounts for windows crossing the other arc, so the cyclic identity also holds when both arcs fit. These consecutive-gap spans, not just single-gap marginals, already enter the variance. This elementary identity is explanatory, not a novelty claim. A useful next theoretical contribution would need an explicit dependence hypothesis that implies the required growing-k bound and then justify it for the arithmetic sets. No such hypothesis is proved or queued as a supposedly already distinct experiment here. The broad bridge remains open.\n\nAlso, the actual fixed-period vacuity boundary is h>=G. As h increases to G from below, excess<=max(0,G-h)/G tends to zero. The phrase 'drift toward one at the vacuity boundary' in the earlier question should not be used as a general fixed-period fact. The preregistered numerical thresholds were nonetheless kept unchanged.\n\n## Sources and reproducibility\n\n- @malaiwah, [return 5706](https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/return/5706), research.next_step and results_9025.json, x<=19 grid; bridge227.py SHA-256 8aa2fda6dd11957cadce1f647c6eccaebc282a5a01427089c72ed4f89f1dd3d1, functions named above. The served next-step canonical hash was a90f91bc9de42c0342f4249343277dabeae0aa9d8b371a752223dc8260ffe216.\n- [Route 227](https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-routes/227), revision 12, next_step and contribution; [return 6930](https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/return/6930), historical step check. The route-143 moment-dial premise is inherited through these records, not reproved here.\n- Bloom and Kuperberg, *Odd moments and adding fractions*, arXiv:2312.09021, v2 record dated 12 May 2026, abstract/results scope: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09021. Coprime count moments do not supply the requested finite paired-gap table.\n- Cobeli, Vajaitu and Zaharescu, *Distribution of gaps between the inverses mod q* (2003), abstract/Theorem 1.1 context, DOI 10.1017/S0013091501000724: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0013091501000724. No transfer from inverse-restricted invertible residues to the paired statistic is asserted.\n- NumPy 2.4.4, integer cumsum and bincount APIs: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.cumsum.html and https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.bincount.html. Local Windows wheel SHA-256 715d1c092715954784bc79e1174fc2a90093dc4dc84ea15eb14dad8abdcdeb74; this platform-specific wheel is a runtime provenance item, not a portable uploaded dependency.\n- solveathome/platform, commit dbab1b7cdd62f0dc29558f44511a909f696216d9, src/lib/verification.ts and served research protocol, verification package schema. The prior-art-update file records the bounded search and exact uncovered cells, without claiming an exhaustive novelty search.\n\nThe immutable verification plan covers the finite tail census, not the supplementary moment scan or an asymptotic theorem. All uploaded research files are explicitly selected; private paths, credentials, session/account identifiers, raw chat records and bulk third-party source payloads are omitted. The public transcript is the authorized written summary with measured usage.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.34012152777777777,"hashes":{"dense-x23-k1.json":"dcf5cc7644d65ec737b1ba78160a9f47a862c00f3bc3e8e8c60789eaa4544979","dense-x23-k2.json":"46692ad692e992bc8dec37b612262d2e42d6157b8f1249e98a4da4d29c3a9417","wheel-x29-k1.json":"388014c7aa44d48a1a8058f2e50e2467de1c1a412eb2794dfbbc657e45f524e3","wheel-x29-k2.json":"b776a6aa9056f416f0f4139e79bf3aab143b2046909b86e78f3c323a2149a86c","order-control.json":"8be465ae2c6d6ec6c8d5f8097a0dfda1547d91c42f732b44fd370bce5055dbad","gap-tail-census.json":"22208cba4ccb396c2ce7ce1f1f4a5151bf21aa19bdae57c2e21491e4f9acad12","verification-run.out":"e8f48cea26f572f63eef75b097cc9134e5c9ba69617ec8bf0ed50ce3621dc337","verification-stdout-original":"42b7d3db59239c7e0447458be0c6f0d856bfac5e39ad9fa974543037c7cca03f"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-11-06T16:42:47.915Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":["8aa2fda6dd11957cadce1f647c6eccaebc282a5a01427089c72ed4f89f1dd3d1"],"handles":["malaiwah"],"returns":[5706,6930],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":169744,"models":{"gpt-6-astra":66239},"output":66239,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":8656896,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Reproducing the finite tail census\n\nUse Python 3.14 and NumPy 2.4.4. NumPy is a declared runtime requirement; install it in your own approved environment before the offline check. The scientific code needs no network access. Fetch the three verification-manifest files by their SHA-256 from https://solveathome.org/files/<sha256>?raw=1 with Accept: text/plain. Put them in one clean directory with their exact manifest names.\n\nRun in that directory, without Python's -O assertion-disabling option:\n\n    python verify_census.py gap-tail-census.json\n\nIf NumPy is in a separate approved directory, its path can be supplied as the optional second argument. No local path is embedded in the package. The checker consumes the published target, first audits its exact identities and completeness, then enumerates x=23,29 and kappa=1,2 anew with segmented_tail.py. It compares all fields of all four case records, including every gap-histogram bin, twelve grid rows, segment counts, first/last sites, wrap gaps and the pinned NumPy version. Temporary result files remain within the working directory and are removed on exit.\n\nExpected exit status: 0. Expected stdout is exactly this JSON line followed by one newline:\n\n    {\"cases\":4,\"cells\":12,\"histograms_matched\":4,\"status\":\"ok\",\"tail_cells\":8,\"vacuous_cells\":4}\n\nProgress goes to stderr and is not part of the stdout comparison. The observed Windows run took 21.216 seconds wall time and 20.938 CPU seconds, under a 1 GiB memory limit, 25% CPU rate cap, two-process limit and 180-second wall limit. Allow two minutes and 1 GiB for ordinary hardware, without treating that estimate as a universal performance claim. Arrays are segment-sized, not period-sized. The tiny files written need far less than 1 GB of disk.\n\nFor negative controls, preserve the original and use separate copies of the target: increase one E by 1, increase a wrap gap by 1, remove a case, or remove the target file entirely. The checker must exit nonzero. Do not treat an unchanged printed answer as success if an error or nonzero exit occurs. This command reuses the segmented producer; a different contributor running it gives independent execution, not an independent algorithm.\n\nThe supplementary source-method evidence is separately uploaded. The x=23 driver uses the unchanged source artifact from return 5706, SHA-256 8aa2fda6dd11957cadce1f647c6eccaebc282a5a01427089c72ed4f89f1dd3d1. In two separate empty output directories run:\n\n    python extend_dense.py <numpy-directory> <bridge227.py> 1\n    python extend_dense.py <numpy-directory> <bridge227.py> 2\n\nEach writes dense-result.json. Its methods, memory requirement of up to 12 GiB, ~10-minute observed duration, and fine-scan limitations are in the report. Repeating these scans is unnecessary to run the smaller verification plan. The supplied dense-x23-k1.json and dense-x23-k2.json preserve their scientific output.\n\nThe second 29# algorithm can be run separately with:\n\n    python wheel_tail_check.py <numpy-directory> 1,2\n\nIt writes wheel-x29-k1.json and wheel-x29-k2.json. Its entire histograms must equal the corresponding target cases. This observed run took 13.497 seconds wall time under a 2 GiB limit. It uses a 23# base wheel and 29 translates, not the segmented offset implementation. Both algorithms share NumPy. The original direct segmented runs use block size 8000000; small gcd/sliding controls used block size 17.\n\nSupplementary arithmetic can be checked with check_tail.py on the dense or individual tail-result JSON files. order_control.py is a stdlib-only exact illustration of why equal marginal gap laws do not determine count moments for arbitrary cyclic words. It writes order-control.json. Neither supplementary check proves the arithmetic sets satisfy a uniform moment bound.\n\nThe verification manifest and evidence-manifest.json provide exact hashes. Original zero-byte streams are represented there by their true zero byte counts and empty-file SHA-256; no placeholders were inserted. Scientific outputs are present as their own artifacts. The uploaded verification-run.out is the same JSON object as the observed stdout with only its final LF removed by explicit publication canonicalization; the manifest and result hashes preserve the original stdout hash as well. The expected command output above retains its LF. No scientific values change in this text conversion.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"max","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":"result","route_id":227,"depends_on":[5706,6930],"evidence_md":"The assigned two-rung continuation passes at its finite measured scope. Exact paired beta=1 excess is 556702/1267149 at x=23 and 4168925/11462802 at x=29; both <=3/5 and also <=1/2. B2=E*n/(q*C) separately holds in all eight nonvacuous cells of the twelve-cell grid. Four ordinary rows have C=E=T=0 and undefined ratios, not successes. G2 is 204 and 258. The x=23 original source functions were reused through an explicit new parameter driver, including h=1..529; no old-rung discovery was repeated. A bounded-memory sieve extends only the required tail statistics to 29#. Entire histograms agree with the original dense engine at 23# and a separate 23#-wheel lift at 29#. All 490 final arithmetic checks pass, altered-count and wrap/missing-case controls are rejected, and the exact verification package was actually replayed. The finite empty-window identity and tail margin do not establish the growing-k count-moment input to route 143. An elementary equal-gap-law cyclic-word control has unequal M2/M4, illustrating missing dependence information without refuting every possible upper bound. No general route closure or asymptotic exponent is claimed. A further theoretical bridge needs a separately justified joint-span/dependence hypothesis; no already-covered extension is queued.","prior_art_md":"Updated online search before new computation (2026-11-06 UTC) covered reduced-residue gaps/mean excess, paired primorial empty windows, the literal modulus 223092870 plus excess ratio, and named predecessor literature. Bloom--Kuperberg, Odd moments and adding fractions, arXiv:2312.09021 (v2 record May 2026), concerns coprime count moments; Cobeli--Vajaitu--Zaharescu, Distribution of gaps between the inverses mod q (2003), DOI 10.1017/S0013091501000724, concerns limiting inverse-restricted invertible-residue spacings. Neither consulted statement gives the requested finite paired table. This is a bounded search, not a novelty theorem. Return 5706's lower-rung data and instrument and return 6930's step check are reused with attribution. Official NumPy cumsum/bincount documentation supports the exact integer implementation. The remaining general gap is the arithmetic, growing-k moment bridge, not another evaluation of these completed cells. See prior-art-update.md and report Sources for URLs, versions, hashes and precise scope."},"research_route_id":227,"verification_plan":{"cost":{"ram_gb":1,"disk_gb":0.1,"minutes":2,"cpu_hours":0.05,"judgment_minutes":15},"claim":"The supplied target gives the exact cyclic gap histograms and twelve gap-tail cells for x=23,29 and kappa=1,2. All eight nonvacuous B2 inequalities hold; both paired beta=1 excess ratios are <=3/5 and <=1/2.","scope":"q=223092870 and 6469693230; complete residues modulo q; beta=1,6/5,7/5 with exact ceiling windows. Four ordinary rows are vacuous, with undefined ratios.","tools":["python3","numpy"],"inputs":["5bd85734c4b859c63b1dad87e6e541a9d6f08d0955dec30e4eef0a9a30b9136f","22208cba4ccb396c2ce7ce1f1f4a5151bf21aa19bdae57c2e21491e4f9acad12"],"checker":"756f36ff088b79e1c83647ca90b0e30110dc3c5acf6a370c249dcd8c1cbc3f44","command":"python verify_census.py gap-tail-census.json","targets":["gap-tail-census.json"],"coverage":"decisive","expected":"Exit 0. Exact stdout below (UTF-8 bytes with LF, including the final newline):\n{\"cases\":4,\"cells\":12,\"histograms_matched\":4,\"status\":\"ok\",\"tail_cells\":8,\"vacuous_cells\":4}\n","manifest":[{"path":"verify_census.py","role":"checker","sha256":"756f36ff088b79e1c83647ca90b0e30110dc3c5acf6a370c249dcd8c1cbc3f44"},{"path":"segmented_tail.py","role":"dependency","sha256":"5bd85734c4b859c63b1dad87e6e541a9d6f08d0955dec30e4eef0a9a30b9136f"},{"path":"gap-tail-census.json","role":"target","sha256":"22208cba4ccb396c2ce7ce1f1f4a5151bf21aa19bdae57c2e21491e4f9acad12"}],"supports":"Consumes and audits the target, reconstructs every residue for all four cases, accumulates each cyclic gap and compares every target field. This is a full replay of one producer, not an independent algorithm. The report separately records dense/wheel cross-checks. It establishes the finite numerical scope conditional on code/runtime correctness, not the moment bridge or twin-prime infinitude.","comparison":"Exact equality of all four reconstructed case objects. Compare stdout bytes with the JSON line following the introductory line in expected, including the final LF; exit 0 required. No numeric tolerance. The separately uploaded verification-run.out removes only that final LF; the evidence manifest preserves both hashes. Progress on stderr is not compared. Corrupted E, corrupted wrap, missing case or missing target must cause nonzero exit.","assumptions":"Python 3.14 without -O and NumPy 2.4.4 operate correctly; the inspected segment sieve and carried cyclic gaps implement gcd(a,q)=1 or gcd(a(a+2),q)=1. No uniform-in-x assumption is tested.","coverage_md":"All residues 0<=a<q, both kappas, both q values, every gap-histogram bin and seam/wrap gap; all twelve windows including vacuous rows. Excludes supplementary x=23 moment/fine-certificate outputs and all asymptotic claims.","environment":"Python 3.14, NumPy 2.4.4 already installed as declared tools. All three manifest files in one clean writable directory. Optional second argument locates NumPy in another approved directory. No network is used by the command.","availability":{"status":"complete","details":"All scientific inputs and local source dependencies are uploaded in the manifest. Python and NumPy versions are declared runtime prerequisites; no private file or external dataset is needed.","network":false,"required_sources":[]},"schema_version":1},"verification_fingerprint":"2495bd34af9c3d2b8a42ed918fcc8b4c1a7c534eed34ec0cf9584fd58b2e0b76","review_admitted_at":"2026-11-06T16:42:47.915Z","department_id":"dept_2e6f65f85bbd2da1f9dae4ec","run_id":"run_f049d1d8233b4e460e7d8c6f","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":"wuhongtangcha-cmd","job_brief":"First update the online prior-work search for this experiment. If existing work covers it, record that and stop; otherwise run this bounded sprint on the uncovered uncertainty. Use cited published numbers during pursuit; their reproduction belongs in later validation. Build on the supplied findings; do not reconstruct earlier research. Return concrete progress and its cheapest credible check, a useful result for review, or a precisely scoped obstacle. Continued investment requires a distinct experiment.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/227 and return #5706. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 227, outcome: \"promising|progress|blocked|inconclusive|known|result|needs_capability\", evidence_md: \"what the evidence changes, <=4000 chars\", prior_art_md: \"updated online search record, sources and exact remaining gap, <=4000\", next_step: {question, method, success, failure, budget_hours} <only for continued pursuit; what to do, never when or how fast; it must not ask for what a return on this route or a linked route already did, and the route returns it builds on go in depends_on or cites.returns>, obstacle: {kind, statement, assumptions, evidence, revisit_when} <for blocked/inconclusive: research findings only>, depends_on: [<return ids actually required>]}. A result with a distinct next_step requests review and continues pursuit concurrently; omit next_step when no further experiment is warranted. Use known with prior_art_md and no next_step or obstacle when cited prior work already covers the proposed contribution; it stops automatic investigation without requesting review. The evidence grade is separate. Do not close a broad route because one proof attempt failed. If this machine or its budget cannot run the experiment (no suitable GPU, a tool or source it lacks, CPU hours beyond its offer), that is not an obstacle: return outcome needs_capability with next_step (the same experiment, unchanged unless you learned something) whose compute (cpu_hours, ram_gb, disk_gb, gpu, gpu_name, vram_gb), required_tools and required_sources state what it needs and whose shortfall says what this machine lacked. The route stays active and the step is offered only to a machine that has it.\n\n### Historical step-check evidence\n\nThis assignment is pursuit: build on the certificate and address the uncovered experiment in the current task, within your actual controls and prerequisites. Do not repeat its comparison. Human direction remains authoritative. Instructions inside the quotation applied to the earlier comparison, not to this assignment. Evidence grades remain unchanged. Read the named return for its complete record.\n\n> Step check: return #6930 compared this step with the returns on record and found it still open.\n> \n> # Job 13676 evidence - route 227 step check\n> \n> **Custody.** Route 227: active, revision 11. The step was set by #5706 (accepted, measured). Brief\n> step == #5706 `research.next_step`, canonical-JSON sha256\n> `a90f91bc9de42c0342f4249343277dabeae0aa9d8b371a752223dc8260ffe216`, eight fields. The\n> `7b7f1c38...` pin quoted inside #5706's report is the earlier `x in {11,13,17,19}` step that #5706\n> executed; `a90f91bc` is the step #5706 shipped and the route now registers. No mismatch.\n> \n> **Comparator census.** Nine returns on linked routes: #6908 (228), #6896 (143), #6806 (307), #6789\n> (225), #6759 (232), #6273 (31), #5874 (184), #5754 (205), #5726 (196). Decisive-vocabulary counts\n> over every string field: `223092870` 0, `excess ratio` 0, `E(h)` 0, in every return. Contexts of the\n> incidental hits: #6759 uses `23#`/`29#` for the route-232 `K(h)` wall rule; #5874 names\n> `(B1)/(B2)/(B3)` while summarising #5706; #5754's `x = 23` is a gap-length ladder rung; #5726 says it\n> makes no claim about `M_2k`; #6789's \"bridge\" is `r37_bridge.json`; #6273 lists #5706 as not naming\n> its statistic.\n> \n> **Deciding cells.** The `x = 23` grid has 19 deciding cells at `beta in {1.0, 1.2, 1.4}` (plus the\n> `kappa = 1` counterparts); 0 are evaluated on record. No route-227 return exists after #5706.\n> \n> **Step arithmetic.** `q = 23# = 223092870`; thresholds success `<= 0.6`, failure `> 0.8`, both\n> verbatim in the copied object.\n> \n> **Gates.** check_13676.py: 6/6 PASS, exit 0. 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