Find out whether the retreat-cancel wrapper adds to this network's two best Prediction Market files, so we can submit the better one to Paradigm's board (https://www.paradigm.xyz/puzzles/prediction-market-challenge). We are 2nd at 110.21 (imd.fun swarm #1042), 1st is 110.69. #1042 is one of two files from goal 253f3b6a, m-plus-a or m-plus-b; nobody knows which.

Retreat-cancel (a wrapper appended to a file) gained +0.37 (se 0.12, 1,000 fresh seeds, worst single run -57.8) over the older m-all file. This goal measures it on m-plus-a and on m-plus-b, ten blocks of 500 fresh seeds each, every seed reported, so the gain, its standard error and its worst runs are all known before anyone submits.

Simulator: https://github.com/danrobinson/prediction-market-challenge at commit b244530ee2a6247b5f930830eeca9dd950da0e7e.

The answer so far

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The swarm

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    The plane split the request into 20 items. Started under a minute after the job was posted.

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    1. Merge items 1–10Agent #724made 1 file

      Done. The merge is written to artifacts/goal/merges/01/result.md (17.2 KB of the 64 KB allowed), left untracked for the daemon to upload. Nothing else under artifacts/ was changed; the untracked dotfiles git status shows are the harness's shell files, not mine.

      What the merge says

      • Verdict: CANDIDATE (m-plus-a + retreat-cancel) beats BASE by +0.3297 edge/seed, se 0.0694, z ≈ 4.75 over all 5,000 seeds (700000–704999), i.e. well past 2 × se. 95 % CI +0.194 to +0.466. Pooled sum_d = 1648.30, sum_d2 = 120952.64.
      • Per spread: 1 and 4 are exactly zero on all 2,468 seeds (the wrapper's code guards if self.s not in (2, 3)); spread 3 is +0.90 ± 0.17 (z 5.3, positive in all ten blocks); spread 2 is +0.40 ± 0.21 (z 1.9 — not established on its own, and holds most of the variance).
      • Five worst: 702116 (−197.44), 702325 (−144.45), 700179 (−65.33), 703795 (−63.60), 703512 (−36.45). Five best: 700964 (+86.34), 701256 (+58.39), 700154 (+45.23), 703541 (+43.08), 703471 (+42.53). Four runs are worse than the −57.8 worst seen on m-all; the report flags this as the material difference from the prior +0.37 ± 0.12 figure.
      • Nine blocks positive, one negative (rc-on-a-05, driven by the two catastrophic seeds). Leave-one-block-out z stays 4.06–7.58; without the flagged rc-on-a-02, +0.305 ± 0.073 (z 4.16).

      Checks I ran

      • Every block: 500 seeds, no failures, per-seed rows reproduce the reported sums, se, spread counts and worst/best lists; the ten blocks cover each seed exactly once.
      • Fetched N and RC from api.imd.fun; hashes match, RC = N + 1,950-byte wrapper, exactly as the items claim. The BASE artifact id was not in my inputs (only its code hash), so I could not re-simulate any seed — the report says so.
      • rc-on-a-02's flagged source: its sources file isn't among my inputs, so I can't name which source failed. I kept its block in the pool (it's internally consistent and in line with the others), reported the verdict with and without it, and noted it is the one block run in parallel processes.
      ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 12 turns · 4m 49s · 23 in · 22.5K out · 611.1K cached
      submission6d30a8945fb63d28f38a1f84d1d6f815c5f1f396219256c5827ccda165a3668c
      device79373c79d1351ebabba8ddfcb60704409e0a1ce0c096820a1d978dc8768a4835
      started from0243d7da4a4337ae8b16bcdf15bb4ead736fd68f
      bundlenone
      verifiedrebuilt and matched · verifier 0.1.0 ·
      made · 1 file
      artifacts/goal/merges/01/result.md · 17 KB
      may write
      artifacts/goal/merges/01/**
  2. Working1 agent
    1. rc-on-b-10Agent #343rate limit clearedConsidering…
      1. running claude
      2. claude reports claude-sonnet-5-5
      3. rate limit cleared
      4. Hashes all match. Now the runner.
      5. Seeds are independent, so I'll run 8 separate serial processes over disjoint ranges.
      6. rate limit cleared
  3. Publishedafter verification

20 agents at most, 1 of 2 merges

Items

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  1. rc-on-a-01Agent #1202accepted, 6 of 6 sources checked out, sources.json
  2. rc-on-a-02Agent #1173accepted, 1 of 2 sources checked out, sources.json
  3. rc-on-a-03Agent #734accepted, 7 of 7 sources checked out, sources.json
  4. rc-on-a-04Agent #723accepted, 6 of 6 sources checked out, sources.json
  5. rc-on-a-05Agent #253accepted, 1 of 1 sources checked out, sources.json
  6. rc-on-a-06Agent #711accepted, 8 of 8 sources checked out, sources.json
  7. rc-on-a-07Agent #283accepted, 0 of 0 sources checked out, sources.json
  8. rc-on-a-08Agent #737accepted, 6 of 6 sources checked out, sources.json
  9. rc-on-a-09Agent #1382accepted, 9 of 9 sources checked out, sources.json
  10. rc-on-a-10Agent #1480accepted, 6 of 6 sources checked out, sources.json
  11. rc-on-b-01Agent #511accepted, 7 of 7 sources checked out, sources.json
  12. rc-on-b-02Agent #374accepted, 9 of 9 sources checked out, sources.json
  13. rc-on-b-03Agent #1578accepted, 3 of 3 sources checked out, sources.json
  14. rc-on-b-04Agent #953accepted, 6 of 6 sources checked out, sources.json
  15. rc-on-b-05Agent #74accepted, 6 of 6 sources checked out, sources.json
  16. rc-on-b-06Agent #1477accepted, 6 of 6 sources checked out, sources.json
  17. rc-on-b-07Agent #1176accepted, 1 of 1 sources checked out, sources.json
  18. rc-on-b-08Agent #1513accepted, 8 of 8 sources checked out, sources.json
  19. rc-on-b-09Agent #1602accepted, 7 of 7 sources checked out, sources.json

Outputs

39 files accepted

File integrity and allowed paths were checked. Content accuracy and quality were not evaluated.