1. Round 1a1-gates2 of 2 backa1-fixturerefused, never rana1-ib-engine4 of 4 backa1-compress3 of 5 back, cancelled, 1 faileda1-port-parts4 of 4 backa1-port-full2 of 2 backb1-numba3 of 3 backb1-ideas4 of 5 back, cancelled, 1 failedb1-fresh3 of 3 backb1-misread3 of 3 back

   Agent #1299 planned it. Started 9 min after the job was posted.

   a1-compress: failed most often on attempts_exhausted (1).

   b1-ideas: failed most often on attempts_exhausted (1).

   The plane refused 2 of its decisions. The next round is told why.

   what a1-gates was asked

   Track A, step 1, copy {{copy}} of 2 (the other copy runs the same work; do all of it yourself). Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). Three pieces, in order; report each even if a later one fails. 1. GATES: run python3 -I gates.py. Report the 12 numbers it prints for seeds 10000..10002 (perfect-info, gaussian+plain, gaussian+qm, lattice+qm) and whether every one matches the README Gates table to the digit. 2. BOUNDS: Engine setup (Linux x86_64 only; elsewhere set engine:"unavailable" and report what you can): git clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge and check out 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704; from the checkout root: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with ". scratch/env.sh && ". If setup fails, report blocked:{step,error} with whatever you finished. From the checkout docs, validator, compiler settings and simulator source, report the exact limits a strategy contract must meet: gas per callback, storage slots, inline assembly allowed or not, code size, Solidity version and optimizer settings, banned opcodes or external calls, and for each the file that enforces it. 3. IB: fetch https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/afd5183e9ff3235334e041c00b0cd19079599a2c6464db95f8c1586712105557 (JSON); decode its code_zb64 (base64, then zlib) to IB.sol. Run amm-match validate on it; report pass or fail and a one-line summary, its deployed bytecode size, and the peak afterSwap gas if the toolkit reports one. Use no engine seed at or above 12000000 (reserved). Result: one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","gates":{"10000":[4 numbers],"10001":[4 numbers],"10002":[4 numbers],"match":true|false},"bounds":{"gas_per_callback":int,"storage_slots":int,"inline_assembly":true|false,"code_size_bytes":int,"solc":"...","optimizer":"...","other":"...","enforced_in":["file",...]},"ib":{"validate":"pass"|"fail"|"not run","summary":"...","bytecode_bytes":int,"peak_afterswap_gas":int|null},"engine":"ok"|"unavailable","blocked":null|{"step":"...","error":"..."},"notes":"under 1500 chars: surprises, what a porter must know"}. Give numbers as numbers, never pasted command output.

   what a1-fixture was asked

   Track A parity fixture, copy {{copy}} of 2 (the other copy does the same; do all of it yourself). Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). Write recorder.py in scratch/solved: it runs the Gaussian policy of real.py on the replica for seeds 10000..10019 twice, with the plain tables (plain:soft=1) and with qm:soft=1,qm=qm_k1e-5.json, and logs every callback as one JSON line: afterInitialize with initialX and initialY, and each afterSwap with isBuy, amountX, amountY, timestamp, reserveX, reserveY exactly as the engine passes them (integers as decimal strings when above 2^53), followed by the bid fee and ask fee the policy returns after that call (bps, 6 decimals) and its state after the call (m, v, s2, synced, cnt, fb, fa). One file per table set, fixture_plain.jsonl and fixture_qm.jsonl, lines in run order with a seed field. Make the output deterministic so another machine regenerates it byte for byte, and report the sha256 of each file. Check: replaying each file through a fresh real.py policy reproduces its fees exactly. Result: one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","files":{"fixture_plain.jsonl":{"sha256":"...","bytes":int,"lines":int},"fixture_qm.jsonl":{"sha256":"...","bytes":int,"lines":int}},"callbacks_per_run":{"min":int,"mean":number,"max":int},"first_of_step_fraction":number,"fee_bps":{"min":number,"max":number,"zero_fraction":number},"replay_exact":true|false,"code_zb64":"base64 of zlib of a tar holding recorder.py and helpers (your files only, not the fetched folder)","code_sha256":"sha256 of that tar","notes":"under 1500 chars: how to run it, the real.py details a porter must match (rounding, clamps, the timestamp 0 case)"}.

   what a1-ib-engine was asked

   Track A engine baseline: IB alone on fresh engine seeds {{from}}..{{to}} (256 seeds, yours alone; use no seed outside this range). Engine setup (Linux x86_64 only; elsewhere set engine:"unavailable" and report what you can): git clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge and check out 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704; from the checkout root: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with ". scratch/env.sh && ". If setup fails, report blocked:{step,error} with whatever you finished. Fetch https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/afd5183e9ff3235334e041c00b0cd19079599a2c6464db95f8c1586712105557 (JSON) and decode its code_zb64 (base64, then zlib) to IB.sol. Run IB against VanillaStrategy on your seeds with amm_sim_rs.run_batch(X, VanillaStrategy, configs, 8), configs built the way MatchRunner._build_configs builds them, one per seed (read the checkout for how a seed becomes a config), in commands of 64 seeds; if one 64-seed command takes over 8 minutes, use 32-seed commands. Save each block per-seed rows under scratch/ as you go. Start no new block after 45 minutes of engine time and report what you have; never fill in or estimate a missing seed. Collect gas_stats() for IB (peak afterSwap gas, mean, OutOfGas count, revert count) and set valid false on any OutOfGas, any revert, or a peak over 245,000. Result: one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","contract":"IB","seeds":{"from":{{from}},"to":{{to}}},"n":int,"rows":[[seed,score],...] with score to 6 decimals,"sum":number,"sumsq":number,"mean":number,"gas_stats":{"peak_afterswap":int,"mean_afterswap":int,"oog":int,"reverts":int},"valid":true|false,"block_seconds":[seconds per block],"engine":"ok"|"unavailable","blocked":null|{"step":"...","error":"..."},"notes":"under 1000 chars: the functions you used to build configs and run, anything odd"}.

   what a1-compress was asked

   Track A, step 2: table compression on the replica, Python only. Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). Baseline: the Gaussian plus qm policy (run.py gauss with soft=1 qm=qm_k1e-5.json) scores +3.77 over HA on 10000..12047; ref/gauss_qm.json holds its per-seed rows. Your one idea, and only it: {{idea_spec}}. For each candidate build the reduced table set, expand it back to the shipped grid (321 rows, 13 and 49 columns, 8 sd levels, same keys) and save it in the format of qm_k1e-5.json; count its cells and its bytes at 1 byte per cell (offsets rounded to whole bps) plus knot indices. Choose among candidates on tuning seeds: python3 -I run.py gauss 60000 256 base.json soft=1 qm=qm_k1e-5.json once, then run.py gauss 60000 256 cand.json soft=1 qm=<expanded file> and pair.py cand.json base.json. Score your best two or three once on the holdout: run.py gauss 10000 2048 out.json soft=1 qm=<file> (chunks of 512 if slow) and pair.py out.json ref/gauss_qm.json; a candidate passes if mean_diff is -0.2 or better. If time is short score fewer holdout seeds from 10000 upward in order and report n. First check that the unmodified file reproduces ref/gauss_qm.json exactly on 10000..10063. Result: one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","idea":"{{idea}}","sanity_exact":true|false,"candidates":[{"name":"...","cells":int,"bytes_1b":int,"storage_slots_32b":int,"tuning_paired":{"n":int,"mean_diff":number,"se":number,"worst5":[...]},"holdout_paired":null|{"n":int,"mean_diff":number,"se":number,"sum":number,"sumsq":number,"worst5":[...]},"passes":true|false,"recipe":"under 400 chars: which knots, levels and columns are kept and how it expands"}],"best":"name","code_zb64":"base64 of zlib of a tar with your reducer and expander scripts (your files only, no tables)","code_sha256":"...","notes":"under 1500 chars: the cost curve, what to try next"}.

   what a1-port-parts was asked

   Track A, step 3, one part of the Solidity port, copy {{copy}} of 2 (the other copy does the same part; do all of it yourself). Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). The policy to port is real.py (README section "The reference policy on real inputs"); the contract must meet the limits of amm-challenge (clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge at 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 and read its validator and docs: about 250,000 gas a callback, 32 storage slots, no inline assembly, the EIP-170 code size). Your part, and only it: {{part_spec}} Deliver Solidity sources and Foundry tests that pass offline (forge test; vendor any library as plain files, no submodules). Compare against Python values computed with the standard library or mpmath and written into the tests as constants. Nothing may revert on out-of-range input: clamp instead. Result: one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","part":"{{part}}","fixed_point":"the representation and why","functions":[{"name":"...","domain":"...","max_rel_error":number,"max_abs_error":number,"gas":int}],"tests":{"passed":int,"failed":int},"bytes_runtime":int,"knots":"TABLES only: the knot set, under 300 chars","code_zb64":"base64 of zlib of a tar with src/ and test/ (your files only)","code_sha256":"...","notes":"under 1500 chars: edge cases handled, what remains"}.

   what a1-port-full was asked

   Track A, step 3, the whole Solidity port, copy {{copy}} of 2 (the other copy attempts the same; do all of it yourself). Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). Engine setup (Linux x86_64 only; elsewhere set engine:"unavailable" and report what you can): git clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge and check out 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704; from the checkout root: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with ". scratch/env.sh && ". If setup fails, report blocked:{step,error} with whatever you finished. Port steps 1 to 6 of the Gaussian policy in real.py (README section "The reference policy on real inputs") with the plain tables of pol_mid.json (the +2.83 target; qm tables come in a later item) to a strategy contract for amm-challenge within its limits (about 250,000 gas a callback, 32 storage slots, no inline assembly, EIP-170 code size; read the checkout validator). The full tables will not fit in code: choose a knot subset that does and measure its cost on the replica (python3 -I run.py gauss 60000 256 with the subset expanded to the full grid in pol_mid.json format vs the original on the same seeds, pair.py). Gates: fees within 0.01 bps of real.py on every callback of replica seeds 10000..10019 (record the callbacks from real.py yourself as raw engine integers and replay them through the contract in a Foundry test); afterSwap peak gas at most 245,000; no OutOfGas; no revert; amm-match validate passes. Also run stress sequences (random trades up to 15 percent of the reserve, extreme reserves, timestamp jumps of 10,000) and report them; they are not a gate, but write the contract so it cannot revert. If you cannot finish, deliver what compiles with its test results and say exactly what is left. Result: one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","tables":"plain","knots":"under 300 chars","knot_cost_paired":{"n":int,"mean_diff":number,"se":number},"parity":{"callbacks":int,"max_fee_diff_bps":number,"over_0_01_bps":int},"gas":{"peak_afterswap":int,"mean_afterswap":int,"oog":int,"reverts":int},"validate":"pass"|"fail"|"not run","stress":{"sequences":int,"reverts":int,"peak_gas":int},"bytes_runtime":int,"complete":true|false,"code_zb64":"base64 of zlib of a tar with the .sol, the tests and the Python recorder (your files only)","code_sha256":"...","engine":"ok"|"unavailable","blocked":null|{"step":"...","error":"..."},"notes":"under 1500 chars: design, fixed point used, what is left"}.

   what b1-numba was asked

   Track B tooling, copy {{copy}} of 3 (the other copies do the same; do all of it yourself). Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). Make a numba port of replica2.py plus latt.py (the lattice filter with the qm tables) that matches gates.py to the digit. In a venv (uv venv --python 3.12 venv; uv pip install numpy numba; or pip) write fast_replica.py exposing the policy interface run.py accepts (module:Class, see example_policy.py) and a batch runner, so that python3 -I run.py fast_replica:Lattice 10000 3 out.json qm=qm_k1e-5.json gives exactly the lattice+qm column of the Gates table (443.663520, 571.977293, 526.411631), and the perfect-information column too if you port the scoring of evalpol.py. Keep a pure-Python fallback when numba is missing. Then measure speed: seconds per run for the lattice policy, pure Python vs yours, single process, on seeds 60000..60031; and confirm per-seed identity on 10000..10063 against ref/lattice_qm.json (count seeds differing by more than 1e-6). Result: one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","gates_match":true|false,"gates":{"10000":number,"10001":number,"10002":number},"holdout_identity":{"n":int,"differ":int,"max_abs_diff":number},"seconds_per_run":{"pure":number,"numba":number},"speedup":number,"code_zb64":"base64 of zlib of a tar of your files only","code_sha256":"...","notes":"under 1500 chars: how to install and call it, which parts stayed Python, pitfalls (float operation order that changed digits)"}.

   what b1-ideas was asked

   Track B: arb or retail, one idea per item. Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). The lattice filter (latt.py with qm_k1e-5.json) decides whether the first own trade of a step is the arb or a retail order and is wrong 16.2 percent of the time; with the true flag the same code gains +2.72 (pair.py ref/flag_qm.json ref/lattice_qm.json). Your idea, and only this one: {{idea_spec}}. Build it as a blind policy for run.py (module:Class as in example_policy.py: it sees only afterInitialize and afterSwap inputs). Tune only on replica seeds 60000 and up: python3 -I run.py lattice 60000 256 base.json qm=qm_k1e-5.json once, yours on the same seeds, pair.py cand.json base.json. Then score once on the holdout 10000..12047 in chunks (run.py yourmod:Class 10000 512 part0.json qm=qm_k1e-5.json, then 10512, 11024, 11536) and pair.py part0.json,part1.json,part2.json,part3.json ref/lattice_qm.json. If pure Python is too slow for all of it in your time, score from 10000 upward in order, as many as finish, and report n; never skip or fill in seeds. Measure also, on 60000..60255 with the true flag from the replica (see clsdata.py and the flag:oraclearb diagnostic of real.py): your misread rate on first-of-step trades against the lattice filter, and the price error (rms of price estimate minus ln of the true price, bps, at each quote). Estimate what the idea costs in a contract: operations per afterSwap, state kept, rough gas. Result: one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","idea":"{{idea}}","tuning_paired":{"n":int,"mean_diff":number,"se":number,"worst5":[...]},"holdout_paired":{"n":int,"mean_diff":number,"se":number,"sum":number,"sumsq":number,"worst5":[...]},"misread_rate":{"lattice":number,"mine":number},"price_error_bps":{"lattice":number,"mine":number},"gas_estimate":"under 300 chars","code_zb64":"base64 of zlib of a tar of your files only","code_sha256":"...","notes":"under 1500 chars: what you tried, what moved the number, what failed, next step"}.

   what b1-fresh was asked

   Track B: arb or retail, from the question alone, copy {{copy}} of 3 (the other copies work independently; do not coordinate). Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). The lattice filter (latt.py with qm_k1e-5.json) decides whether the first own trade of a step is the arb or a retail order and is wrong 16.2 percent of the time; with the true flag the same code gains +2.72 (pair.py ref/flag_qm.json ref/lattice_qm.json). Skip the README sections "Two tracks for a goal" and "Open": they list ideas already tried or assigned, and your value is an approach not on them. Read the mechanics instead (replica2.py: how the arb trades, how the router splits a retail order across the two pools, what afterSwap sees; latt.py: how the filter reads the first trade) and find your own way to tell the arb from retail, or to make the mistake cheaper. One idea only, named as {{idea}} in the result. Build it as a blind policy for run.py (module:Class as in example_policy.py: it sees only afterInitialize and afterSwap inputs). Tune only on replica seeds 60000 and up: python3 -I run.py lattice 60000 256 base.json qm=qm_k1e-5.json once, yours on the same seeds, pair.py cand.json base.json. Then score once on the holdout 10000..12047 in chunks (run.py yourmod:Class 10000 512 part0.json qm=qm_k1e-5.json, then 10512, 11024, 11536) and pair.py part0.json,part1.json,part2.json,part3.json ref/lattice_qm.json. If pure Python is too slow for all of it in your time, score from 10000 upward in order, as many as finish, and report n; never skip or fill in seeds. Measure also, on 60000..60255 with the true flag from the replica (see clsdata.py and the flag:oraclearb diagnostic of real.py): your misread rate on first-of-step trades against the lattice filter, and the price error (rms of price estimate minus ln of the true price, bps, at each quote). Estimate what the idea costs in a contract: operations per afterSwap, state kept, rough gas. Result: one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","idea":"{{idea}}","tuning_paired":{"n":int,"mean_diff":number,"se":number,"worst5":[...]},"holdout_paired":{"n":int,"mean_diff":number,"se":number,"sum":number,"sumsq":number,"worst5":[...]},"misread_rate":{"lattice":number,"mine":number},"price_error_bps":{"lattice":number,"mine":number},"gas_estimate":"under 300 chars","code_zb64":"base64 of zlib of a tar of your files only","code_sha256":"...","notes":"under 1500 chars: what you tried, what moved the number, what failed, next step"}.

   what b1-misread was asked

   Track B diagnostics: why the filter misreads the first trade of a step. Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). The lattice filter (latt.py with qm_k1e-5.json) decides whether the first own trade of a step is the arb or a retail order and is wrong 16.2 percent of the time; with the true flag the same code gains +2.72 (pair.py ref/flag_qm.json ref/lattice_qm.json). Build a dataset of first-of-step afterSwap trades on replica seeds 60000..60511 with the true flag (adapt clsdata.py and the flag:oraclearb path of real.py), the lattice filter pi and its own features, and your feature family, and only it: {{family_spec}}. Report how separable the misread trades are by your features: the AUC and misread rate of a logistic regression or small tree on your features alone and added to the filter features, fit on 60000..60511 and tested on held-out seeds 61000..61255 (plain Python or numpy; no scoring on 10000..12047, that is for the idea items); a breakdown of misreads by dt bucket (1, 2, 3-5, 6+) and by trade size quartile; and the single most predictive feature you found with its definition. Result: one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","family":"{{family}}","rows":{"train":int,"test":int},"lattice_misread_test":number,"auc":{"filter_only":number,"mine_only":number,"filter_plus_mine":number},"misread_test":{"filter_only":number,"filter_plus_mine":number},"by_dt":{"1":number,"2":number,"3-5":number,"6+":number},"by_size_quartile":[4 numbers],"top_feature":{"name":"...","definition":"under 300 chars","auc_alone":number},"code_zb64":"base64 of zlib of a tar of your files only","code_sha256":"...","notes":"under 1500 chars: what the misreads have in common, what a policy should do"}.

   the whole memo

   EPISODE 1 (2026-11-09). Nothing had run. Read the solved-folder README at the pinned commit (gtmcknight/amm-sim e65314f8 research/solved). Plan: run both tracks from episode 1, batches of <=5 so none holds behind a canary, spare copies on lines that need api.imd.fun or the engine, research mode throughout (code travels as code_zb64 + sha256 in results; no code trunk yet). KEY FACTS FROM THE README: all gains are vs HA on replica seeds 10000..12047 (HA mean 529.557). IB = HA +0.59 on the engine. Reference policies on real inputs: gauss+plain +2.83, gauss+qm +3.77, lattice+qm +4.26, true-flag diagnostic +6.98 (= #1). Top-10 line is +3.25 vs HA (+2.66 vs IB); #1 about +7.0. Track A gates: fees within 0.01 bps of real.py on callbacks of replica seeds 10000..10019, afterSwap peak <= 245,000, 0 OOG, 0 revert, amm-match validate. Engine bar: +2.7 over IB on 4,000 paired seeds. Tables are 8 MB JSON: 321 w rows x (13 cols phase 0, 49 cols phases 1-2) x 8 sd levels x s/c modes; plain tables alone are ~71k cells, so compression is required to fit EIP-170 code size (24,576 bytes). Track B: misread rate 16.2% worth +2.72; already tried without gain: DP_MASK quote-zone forbidding, kappa > 1e-5, quote-aware fill likelihood, table classifier on filter features (18.8%). Fleet rules: no speed gates, 64-seed engine commands (32 on slow seats), no command over 8 minutes, never fill missing seeds, paired stats carry sum and sumsq, keep filled briefs < 2,900 chars with every placeholder (key included) in every item's vars as a string, ask for numbers not command text, results < 60,000 bytes. ENGINE SEED LEDGER (used once, never reused): 12000000..12001023 assigned to a1-ib-engine (IB alone, 4 items x 256: ib-12000000, ib-12000256, ib-12000512, ib-12000768). Per-seed IB rows from those items are the baseline half of the first port-vs-IB pairing: the first validated port must run on exactly these seeds (only seeds IB actually returned). Next free engine seed: 12001024. Replica tuning seeds in use: 60000..60511 (ideas, compression, misread), 61000..61255 (misread holdout). Holdout 10000..12047 is scored once per idea. BATCHES SPAWNED (33 items; Track A 19, Track B 14): Track A: a1-gates (2 copies: gates.py digits, contract bounds from the amm-challenge checkout, IB validate + bytecode size); a1-fixture (2 copies: deterministic recorder of real.py callbacks + fees for seeds 10000..10019, plain and qm, sha256s; the fixture itself is too big to travel, the recorder does); a1-ib-engine (4 x 256 seeds); a1-compress (5 ideas: knots, mirror, sdlevels, rivalmode, fit; pass = within 0.2 of +3.77 vs ref/gauss_qm.json); a1-port-parts (math lib x2, table packer x2); a1-port-full (2 copies, plain tables, full gate set). Track B: b1-numba (3 copies: numba replica2+latt matching gates to the digit, speed); b1-ideas (5 README ideas: posterior, twohyp, perrun, router, trained); b1-fresh (3 copies told to skip the README idea lists); b1-misread (3 feature families: amounts, hindsight, size; diagnostics only, AUC and misread on 61000..61255). NEXT EPISODE SHOULD: (1) Check a1-gates: do gates match to the digit, what are the real bounds (gas, slots, code size, solc). If gates do not match, stop Track A ports until the replica/digits question is settled. (2) From a1-compress pick the smallest table set that passes (-0.2 vs gauss_qm) and its byte count; feed the knot set into the next port batch and the table packer. (3) From a1-port-parts and a1-port-full take the best math lib and packer (lowest error, lowest gas) as the starting code_zb64 for an episode-2 port batch targeting the qm tables; if a1-port-full reached parity, run it on the engine on seeds 12000000..12001023 against the IB rows, then widen on fresh seeds from 12001024 in 256-seed items (both arms per seed range in the same item from then on, so the pair never depends on two items). Check the replica-vs-engine consistency rule: port gain over IB on the engine should be within 0.2 of (its replica gain over HA minus 0.59). (4) From b1-ideas/b1-fresh: any idea with holdout mean_diff >= +0.3 vs ref/lattice_qm.json (se small) goes to Track A's next port and gets a confirmation item; ideas between 0 and 0.3 get one tuning item; negative ones are dropped unless notes argue a clear fix. Combine b1-misread findings (the top feature) into a new idea item. (5) Use the numba port from b1-numba (if gates_match) as the runner in all later Track B briefs to cut holdout time. (6) Budget: 207 items left after this episode, 19 episodes; aim ~25-40 items per episode, widen only briefs that worked. Track A and B stay about even until a port passes the engine; then shift to A (engine confirmation to 4,000 seeds) and B-to-A transfer. WATCH FOR: items refused for brief length or missing placeholders (every brief here was checked under 2,900 filled chars, all placeholders present); seats that cannot reach api.imd.fun (a1-gates, a1-ib-engine) or are not Linux x86_64 (they report engine unavailable; that is fine for gates/fixture); results over 60,000 bytes (code_zb64 too big: ask for scripts only, no tables).

   1 step

   a1-gates, item by itema1-ib-engine, item by itema1-compress, item by itema1-port-parts, item by itema1-port-full, item by itemb1-numba, item by itemb1-ideas, item by itemb1-fresh, item by itemb1-misread, item by item

2. Round 2a2-engine-plain4 of 4 backa2-port-qm2 of 2 backa2-latt-gas1 of 1 backb2-blend2 of 2 backb2-revise1 of 1 backb2-oracle-gap1 of 1 backb2-fresh2 of 2 back

   Agent #2 planned it.

   what a2-engine-plain was asked

   Track A engine pairing: port P2 and IB, each alone against VanillaStrategy, on engine seeds {{from}}..{{to}} (256 seeds, yours alone; use no seed outside this range; never fill a missing seed). Engine: git clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge and check out 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704; from the checkout root: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. If a setup step fails, set engine:"unavailable" and blocked:{step,error} (the step and its error message), report what you have and finish; do not test the machine first. Contracts: IB = field code_zb64 (base64, then zlib; one .sol, contract inputs_b) of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/afd5183e9ff3235334e041c00b0cd19079599a2c6464db95f8c1586712105557. P2 = field code_zb64 (base64, then zlib; a tar whose README names its Strategy .sol) of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/679e9ec3e69ce093fb9ba56944ad799079b2a311ad4bea0521c2f7b15aa626d6, a Gaussian-filter port with plain tables. Run amm-match validate on both; a failure is reported, not fixed. Configs per MatchRunner._build_configs with the loop index replaced by the seed: np.random.default_rng(seed=seed), uniform draws in order retail_mean_size, retail_arrival_rate, gbm_sigma from BASELINE_VARIANCE, other fields from the base config, SimulationConfig(seed=seed). For each arm run amm_sim_rs.run_batch(X, VanillaStrategy, configs, 8) in 64-seed blocks (32 on a slow seat), gas_stats_reset() before each block and gas_stats() after; score = result.edges['submission']. Both arms on exactly the same seeds; if time runs short, stop both arms at the same seed and report n. Scores vary by 90 across seeds, so only the per-seed difference matters. Result, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: key "{{key}}", seeds{from,to}, ib{n,sum,sumsq,rows:[[seed,score],...]}, port{n,sum,sumsq,rows}, paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5:[[seed,diff]x5]} over port minus IB per seed, gas{ib:{peak_afterswap,mean_afterswap,oog,reverts},port:{same}}, valid (false on any port OutOfGas or revert or a port afterSwap peak over 245,000), ib_sum_check (earlier IB sum on this range over six-decimal rows: {{ibsum}}; "none" means no earlier run; answer "equal", "differs by <x>" or "none"),block_seconds (per block), engine ("ok"|"unavailable"), blocked (null or {step,error}), notes (under 1,500 characters: what you ran, anything odd). Numbers only, no command output.

   what a2-port-qm was asked

   Track A, the qm port, copy {{copy}} of 2 (the other copy attempts the same; do all of it yourself). Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). Start from P2, an accepted port of real.py soft=1 with plain tables: field code_zb64 (base64, then zlib; a tar with source, tests, recorder, table packer, README) of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/679e9ec3e69ce093fb9ba56944ad799079b2a311ad4bea0521c2f7b15aa626d6 (parity 3e-9 bps on 212,490 callbacks, peak 145,062 gas, runtime 22,567 bytes). Make it the Gaussian + qm policy (run.py gauss with soft=1 qm=qm_k1e-5.json, +3.77 over HA): qm has 8 sd levels and s/c rival modes, so it must be compressed to fit. Choose w knots, an sd-level subset and a rival-mode treatment (ideas: P2's knots, the mirror ask(w,R)=bid(-w,-R), 3 or 4 sd levels with linear interpolation, one rival mode or c-minus-s residuals); expand the candidate back to the shipped grid in qm_k1e-5.json format and measure its cost: python3 -I run.py gauss 60000 256 cand.json soft=1 qm=<file> against run.py gauss 60000 256 base.json soft=1 qm=qm_k1e-5.json, then pair.py cand.json base.json; the cost must be mean_diff >= -0.2. Then port it. Gates: fees within 0.01 bps of real.py (soft=1, your expanded qm file) on every callback of replica seeds 10000..10019 recorded blind; afterSwap peak <= 245,000 gas counted as the engine does (21,000 intrinsic included); no revert on stress sequences (report, do not gate); runtime <= 24,576 bytes; solc 0.8.24, viaIR, Paris, optimizer 200, no assembly, 32 slots; amm-match validate if the engine installs (clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge at 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704; mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; if that fails, validate:"not run" and go on). Consume no engine seeds. If it will not fit, ship the best you reached with complete:false and say how many bytes over. Result, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: key "{{key}}", tables:"qm", knots (w knots, sd levels, rival modes, residual format), knot_cost_paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq}, parity{callbacks,max_fee_diff_bps,over_0_01_bps}, gas{peak_afterswap,mean_afterswap,oog,reverts}, validate ("pass"|"fail"|"not run"), stress{sequences,reverts,peak_gas}, bytes_runtime, complete (true only when every gate passed), code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of a tar: source, tests, packer, expanded-table generator, README; no table JSON), code_sha256 (of the tar), notes (under 1,500 characters: what changed, what failed, what to try next). Numbers only, no command output.

   what a2-latt-gas was asked

   Track A feasibility: can the lattice filter run in the contract? Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). latt.py keeps probability mass on 121 cells of 2.5 bps and is worth +0.5 over the Gaussian filter on the replica. Contract bounds: 250,000 gas a callback including the 21,000 intrinsic cost, 32 storage slots, no inline assembly, 24,576 runtime bytes, solc 0.8.24 viaIR Paris optimizer 200. Write the lattice belief update alone in Solidity (no fee tables: it returns mean and sd in bps and pi): masses packed as fixed-point integers (16 or 21 bits a cell) in as few slots as possible; per callback: up to dt-1 silent steps (cap 12), each a convolution with the price-move kernel and zeroing of the cells where the arb would have traded, this step's convolution, the first-trade mixture (point mass at the arb reading plus the cut prior, pi as latt.py), renormalisation, mean and sd. Prove it against latt.py on callbacks recorded from replica seeds 10000..10004 run blind (timestamp, isBuy, reserves, and latt.py's mean, sd, pi at each): max abs error of mean and sd in bps and of pi. Measure gas with Foundry or pyrevm on those callbacks: peak, mean, and the peak by dt bucket (1, 2, 3-5, 6+). If the first peak is over 180,000 try at least two cheaper variants (fewer bits, a truncated kernel, a coarser silent-step update) and report each. Result, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: key "{{key}}", slots_used, bits_per_cell, kernel_width_cells, gas{peak,mean,by_dt:{"1","2","3-5","6+"}}, variants:[{name,bits,kernel,peak_gas,max_err_mean_bps,max_err_sd_bps,max_err_pi}], err{max_mean_bps,max_sd_bps,max_pi}, bytes_runtime, feasible (true if a variant has peak <= 170,000 and max_err_mean_bps <= 0.5), code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of a tar: Solidity, tests, recorder; no large data), code_sha256 (of the tar), notes (under 1,500 characters: where the gas goes, what a full port with tables would need). Numbers only, no command output.

   what b2-blend was asked

   Track B: the branch-blend idea, variant {{variant}}. Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). Found in episode 1 (result at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/80b9f00d0d387deabd812da152d935cf049fa6654ae5e1cf43a30e16e7dd6830; its code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar holding bb.py, module bb:BB, options bl=1 bw=2 qm=qm_k1e-5.json, beside latt.py, real.py and replica2.py; if the fetch fails, re-implement from this): on an ambiguous first trade of a step (0.001 < pi < 0.999) the lattice makes the phase and rival choice hard at pi > 0.5. Branch-blend instead looks up quotes under each branch, arb (price = arb reading, sd 0, phase 0, rival band-clipped to it) and retail (cut posterior mean and sd, phase 1, rival from the router identity), and quotes the weighted average of the two log bid and ask prices with weight wA = pi^g/(pi^g+(1-pi)^g), g=2. Holdout 10000..12047 vs ref/lattice_qm.json: +0.183 se 0.011; misread 16.03% vs 16.24%. Your task: {{task}} Rules: blind (run.py only); tune on replica seeds 60000..60255, confirm the chosen setting on 60256..60511 before touching the holdout; freeze the code; score the holdout 10000..12047 once, in 512-seed run.py commands (PROCS=8), and pair against {{ref}}. A bit-identical numba lattice runner exists at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/1134b0f83ff44cf484f8dc780a5c7f0e5d08d2cbbfad3d4ee2d3578ae6fa1ac6 (its code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar; fast_replica.py goes beside run.py; numpy and numba in a venv) if you want speed; pure Python is acceptable. Result, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: key "{{key}}", idea (one line), settings_tried:[{setting,n,mean_diff,se}] on tuning seeds, confirm_paired{n,mean_diff,se}, holdout_paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}, misread_rate{base,mine}, price_error_bps{base,mine}, gas_estimate (extra state and ops per callback, rough gas), code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of a tar of your module and a README), code_sha256 (of the tar), notes (under 1,500 characters: what failed first, what to try next). Numbers only, no command output.

   what b2-revise was asked

   Track B: revise the state when a later callback flips the label. Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). Episode-1 diagnostics (replica seeds 60000..60511 train, 61000..61255 test): the lattice misreads 16.2% of first trades of a step (9.7% retail read as arb, 6.5% arb read as retail). Forking the lattice at the first trade into an arb branch and a retail branch and scoring the next own callbacks (the log predictive-likelihood difference, AUC 0.86 alone, 0.95 with the filter's features) cuts the misread in hindsight to 14.9/13.1/12.0% after 1/2/3 callbacks. The forward price estimate gains nothing from that (the lattice mixture already carries it), but latt.py never revises what the hard read set: the rival spot clip and synced flag, the phase and the count. Your idea, measured alone: keep two branches after an ambiguous first trade (0.05 < pi < 0.95); at each later callback of the same step, and at the next step's first trade, update the branch posterior with the predictive likelihoods; when it crosses 0.5, recompute s2, synced, cnt and phase as if the first trade had been read the other way and quote from the revised state (optionally pi-weighted between the two states' quotes). The price belief update stays latt.py's. Rules: blind (run.py only); tune on replica seeds 60000..60255, confirm the chosen setting on 60256..60511 before touching the holdout; freeze the code; score the holdout 10000..12047 once, in 512-seed run.py commands (PROCS=8), and pair against ref/lattice_qm.json. A bit-identical numba lattice runner exists at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/1134b0f83ff44cf484f8dc780a5c7f0e5d08d2cbbfad3d4ee2d3578ae6fa1ac6 (its code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar; fast_replica.py goes beside run.py; numpy and numba in a venv) if you want speed; pure Python is acceptable. Result, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: key "{{key}}", idea (one line), settings_tried:[{setting,n,mean_diff,se}] on tuning seeds, confirm_paired{n,mean_diff,se}, holdout_paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}, flips{share_of_ambiguous,share_right} on tuning seeds, misread_rate{base,mine}, price_error_bps{base,mine}, gas_estimate (extra state and ops per callback, rough gas), code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of a tar of your module and a README), code_sha256 (of the tar), notes (under 1,500 characters: what failed first, what to try next). Numbers only, no command output.

   what b2-oracle-gap was asked

   Track B diagnostic: where the +4.44 between the lattice policy (+4.26 over HA) and perfect information (+8.70) sits, so the next ideas aim at the largest piece. Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). Known: the true arb/retail flag alone takes the same code to +6.98 (real.py flag:oraclearb=1); perfect price with the rival tracked from own trades +8.50. Build oracle variants of latt.py (qm=qm_k1e-5.json) that read one true quantity from the replica callback, labelled as diagnostics (run.py's blindness is bypassed only here): (a) true flag only, (b) true price at the first trade of a step only, the flag still inferred, (c) true price at every own callback, (d) true rival spot only, (e) true flag plus true rival, (f) true flag plus true phase and count, (g) lattice as is. Run each on replica seeds 60000..60511 (PROCS=8, 128-seed commands) and pair each against (g) on the same seeds; also pair (g) against run.py perfect there. A bit-identical numba lattice runner exists at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/1134b0f83ff44cf484f8dc780a5c7f0e5d08d2cbbfad3d4ee2d3578ae6fa1ac6 (its code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar; fast_replica.py goes beside run.py; numpy and numba in a venv) and exposes perfect and lattice modes; use it if it saves time; pure Python is acceptable. If 512 seeds do not fit the hour, run fewer and report n; never touch 10000..12047. Result, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: key "{{key}}", n_seeds, variants:[{name,inputs,mean_vs_lattice,se,sum,sumsq,misread_rate,price_rms_bps}] for (a) to (f) and perfect, decomposition (one paragraph: how much of the gap is the flag, the price given the flag, the rival, the phase; which parts afterSwap inputs could reach and which they cannot), code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of a tar of the oracle module and runner script), code_sha256 (of the tar), notes (under 1,500 characters). Numbers only, no command output.

   what b2-fresh was asked

   Track B: arb or retail, from the question alone, copy {{copy}} of 2 (the other copy works independently; do not coordinate). Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). The lattice filter (latt.py with qm_k1e-5.json) decides whether the first own trade of a step is the arb or a retail order and is wrong 16.2% of the time; with the true flag the same code scores +2.72 more (ref/flag_qm.json vs ref/lattice_qm.json), the distance from 7th to the top two. Skip the README's idea list and these, already measured: per-run sigma and rate estimates inside the classifier (+0.02), a router likelihood per price hypothesis (+0.09, about 1M gas), quoting a blend of the arb-branch and retail-branch quotes (+0.18, kept), trade size, timing and exact-amount features (redundant: AUC 0.92 with or without them; misreads are small fills under 8 bps near the quote edge, 24.7% misread in the smallest size quartile and 5.4% in the largest, worst at dt=2), hindsight relabelling (fixes the past estimate, not the forward one). Find one idea of your own that reads afterSwap inputs only, state it in one line, and measure it alone. Rules: blind (run.py only); tune on replica seeds 60000..60255, confirm the chosen setting on 60256..60511 before touching the holdout; freeze the code; score the holdout 10000..12047 once, in 512-seed run.py commands (PROCS=8), and pair against ref/lattice_qm.json. A bit-identical numba lattice runner exists at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/1134b0f83ff44cf484f8dc780a5c7f0e5d08d2cbbfad3d4ee2d3578ae6fa1ac6 (its code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar; fast_replica.py goes beside run.py; numpy and numba in a venv) if you want speed; pure Python is acceptable. Result, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: key "{{key}}", idea (one line), settings_tried:[{setting,n,mean_diff,se}] on tuning seeds, confirm_paired{n,mean_diff,se}, holdout_paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}, misread_rate{base,mine}, price_error_bps{base,mine}, gas_estimate (extra state and ops per callback, rough gas), code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of a tar of your module and a README), code_sha256 (of the tar), notes (under 1,500 characters: what failed first, what to try next). Numbers only, no command output.

   the whole memo

   EPISODE 2 (2026-11-09). 22 results read; a1-compress (5), b1-ideas posterior/twohyp/trained and b1-fresh/fresh-1 still running. 31 items used before this episode, 13 spawned now (44 of 240), 18 episodes left. HOW CODE TRAVELS: every result is served byte-for-byte at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<sha256 of the result file> (the sha the episode's input list gives; verified this episode for three results). A new item starts from an earlier result by fetching that URL and decoding code_zb64 (base64, then zlib, a tar). Briefs can therefore chain work without a code trunk. Keep that URL form; a fixture too big for a result still cannot travel. TRACK A FINDINGS. Gates: both copies match the README digits (gates.py 7 s). Bounds (from the amm-challenge checkout): 250,000 gas per afterInitialize and per afterSwap INCLUDING the 21,000 intrinsic cost (so the 245,000 target leaves ~224,000 of execution), getName 50,000, deploy 10,000,000; 32 storage slots; no inline assembly; runtime 24,576 bytes; solc 0.8.24, optimizer 200, viaIR, evmVersion paris; contract named Strategy inheriting AMMStrategyBase, imports only ./AMMStrategyBase.sol and ./IAMMStrategy.sol; bytecode scan rejects BALANCE, EXTCODE*, CREATE*, CALL*, DELEGATECALL, STATICCALL, SELFDESTRUCT; source regex bans .call/.send/.transfer/coinbase/custom interfaces. IB: 14,528 runtime bytes, afterInitialize 243,227 gas, afterSwap peak 234,958-237,009 on the engine, mean 135,200. IB ENGINE BASELINE: 768 of 1,024 seeds done. ib-12000000: n 256 sum 134918.570353 sumsq 73255977.563357 (mean 527.03); ib-12000512: sum 136071.26244 sumsq 74524616.540014 (531.53); ib-12000768: sum 136903.691024 sumsq 75420076.107479 (534.78). Pooled mean 531.11, sd across seeds 92.4: only PAIRED per-seed differences carry signal. ib-12000256 (seeds 12000256..12000511) returned nothing: the worker read "Linux x86_64 only; elsewhere set engine unavailable" as an order to inspect its machine and refused. NEVER write a platform condition in a brief: say "run the setup; if a step fails report blocked{step,error}". Those 256 seeds were not consumed. PORT: a1-port-full/port-2 = P2 (result sha 679e9ec3e69ce093fb9ba56944ad799079b2a311ad4bea0521c2f7b15aa626d6) is a complete plain-table port of real.py soft=1: 71 w knots, all 13/49 rival columns, mirrored bid, int16 residuals; parity max 3.4e-9 bps over 212,490 callbacks of seeds 10000..10019; peak 145,062 gas, mean 49,544 (pyrevm, engine accounting); runtime 22,567 bytes; validate pass; knot cost -0.008 se 0.009 on 60000..60255; stress 64 sequences 0 reverts. port-1 failed parity (58 bps) and is dropped. Parts: math-2 (sha 28f7ff6aca0c48b081f6c1461973a94721dd34429012d1f267450f5cdde7cba6, Q30, trunc moments 18k gas, 4,161 bytes) beats math-1 (truncNormal 147k gas); tables-1 (sha d5e0e4e9...) packer 19k gas/lookup, tables-2 (sha 1c57f8b7...) 42k. P2 already carries its own math and packer, so parts are spares. Plain tables expected on the engine: +2.83-0.59 = +2.24 over IB, below the +2.7 bar; the qm tables (+3.77 replica, +3.18 expected over IB) are needed and must be compressed from 8 sd levels x s/c modes into the ~2,000 bytes P2 leaves, or P2 must shrink. TRACK B FINDINGS. numba: all three match gates; b1-numba/numba-3 (sha 1134b0f83ff44cf484f8dc780a5c7f0e5d08d2cbbfad3d4ee2d3578ae6fa1ac6) is the one to use: whole replica + lattice + RNG in numba, bit-identical to pure Python on all 2,048 holdout seeds, 0.0086 s/run, modes perfect|lattice, fast_replica.py beside run.py, numpy+numba venv. It found ref/lattice_qm.json differs from pure Python by >1e-6 on 34/2048 seeds (max 0.074, another libm): pair.py against ref is still the rule, but a 0.07 single-seed wobble is noise. Ideas on holdout 10000..12047 vs ref/lattice_qm.json: perrun +0.022 se 0.0075 (drop); router alpha=0 only, 0.000 (nonzero alpha -15 on 8 seeds; drop); fresh-2 BRANCH-BLEND +0.183 se 0.011 (sha 80b9f00d0d387deabd812da152d935cf049fa6654ae5e1cf43a30e16e7dd6830: on ambiguous first trades quote the pi^2-weighted log-blend of the arb-branch and retail-branch quotes; +20-30k gas only on those calls; best so far, under the 0.3 bar); fresh-3 RouterEvidence +0.089 se 0.010 (0.3-1.5M gas, drop for ports). Misread diagnostics (three families agree): misreads are small fills near the quote edge (24.7% misread in the smallest size quartile, 5.4% in the largest; d<4 bps 24.8%, d>23 bps 4.5%; dt=2 worst at 20.6%); size, timing and exact-amount features add nothing (AUC 0.92 either way, 2D tables flip no cell); hindsight forking cuts misread to 11.8% but the forward price estimate does not improve (lattice mixture already holds it); the untested levers are revising rival clip/synced/phase when a later callback flips the label, and quotes that make the next arb separate the hypotheses (that is b1-ideas/idea-twohyp, still running). DECISIONS THIS EPISODE (13 items). Track A (7): a2-engine-plain, 4 items x 256 seeds on 12000000..12001023, BOTH arms (IB and P2) in the same item, 64-seed blocks, paired stats, and an ib_sum_check against the earlier IB sums (determinism check; seeds 12000256..12000511 have none). Expected: P2 over IB = +2.24 +-0.2 if replica gaps carry. a2-port-qm, 2 copies: P2 plus compressed qm tables, cost >= -0.2 on 60000..60255 vs gauss qm, full gate set. a2-latt-gas, 1 item: the lattice belief update alone in Solidity, gas by dt bucket, feasible if a variant peaks <= 170,000 with mean error <= 0.5 bps (decides whether the next port can be the lattice, +3.67 expected over IB). Track B (6): b2-blend/blend-tune (weight schedule, fee blend, per-branch modes) and blend-gauss (the blend on the Gaussian filter vs ref/gauss_qm.json: the B-to-A transfer test); b2-revise (state revision on label flip); b2-oracle-gap (oracle ablations on 60000..60511: flag, price, rival, phase, to locate the remaining +4.44); b2-fresh, 2 copies told to skip the README list and the episode-1 results. SEED LEDGER. Engine: 12000000..12001023 assigned (IB rows on 768 of them; a2-engine-plain reruns IB and runs P2 on all 1,024). Next free engine seed: 12001024. Replica: tuning 60000..60255, confirmation 60256..60511, diagnostics 60000..60511 and 61000..61255; holdout 10000..12047 scored once per idea. EPISODE 3 SHOULD: (1) Pool a2-engine-plain: sum the per-item paired sum/sumsq, mean_diff and se on up to 1,024 seeds; check ib_sum_check says equal on the three known ranges. If P2-IB is within 0.2 of +2.24 the engine pipeline is trusted; if not, spawn a diagnosis item (per-seed replica-vs-engine trace of P2 on the worst seeds) before any more engine work. Record port gas on the engine. (2) From a2-port-qm and a1-compress pick a qm port with complete:true; if none, combine the best compression (smallest set within -0.2) with P2 in a new 2-copy port batch, passing both result URLs. When one passes, run it on fresh seeds from 12001024 in 256-seed both-arm items (4 items first, then widen to 4,000 seeds over two episodes if the first 1,024 show >= +2.5). (3) Track B: holdout >= +0.3 vs its ref goes into the next port (blend-gauss tells whether branch-blend transfers to the Gaussian filter; if it does at >= +0.15 there, add it to the qm port as an option anyway, it is cheap); 0 to 0.3 gets one tuning item; read idea-posterior and idea-twohyp first, they are the two README ideas most likely to pay. (4) If a2-latt-gas says feasible, spawn a lattice port (2 copies) from P2 plus the lattice update code. (5) Budget: 196 items after this episode; keep ~12-20 per episode, widen only engine pairing of a port that passed its gates. WATCH FOR: items that fail because api.imd.fun was unreachable (give the line a spare next time); workers who refuse on platform grounds (brief wording); results over 60,000 bytes; the plane's 'sources flagged' marks on most results (no effect seen, nothing to do). a1-fixture was refused in episode 1 for asking for raw command output; the recorder now lives inside P2's tar, so no fixture batch is needed.

   1 step

   a2-engine-plain, item by itema2-port-qm, item by itema2-latt-gas, item by itemb2-blend, item by itemb2-revise, item by itemb2-oracle-gap, item by itemb2-fresh, item by item

3. Round 3a3-eng-qm2-a4 of 4 backa3-eng-qm2-b4 of 4 backa3-port-blend2 of 2 backa3-latt-swar1 of 1 backb3-mix21 of 1 backb3-blend-revise1 of 1 backb3-fresh31 of 1 back

   Agent #2 planned it.

   what a3-eng-qm2-a was asked

   Track A engine pairing: port Q2 and IB, each alone against VanillaStrategy, on engine seeds {{from}}..{{to}} (256 seeds, yours alone; use no seed outside this range; never fill a missing seed). Engine: git clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge and check out 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704; from the checkout root: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `; if a step fails, report blocked{step,error} and whatever you could still do. Contracts: IB = field code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of IB.sol, contract inputs_b) of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/afd5183e9ff3235334e041c00b0cd19079599a2c6464db95f8c1586712105557. Q2 = https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/f6f4c4cccbd3fd9b0d7a4c4c329011ba1c765a10cc192b1402434033bdd10402: its JSON is {"qm-2": {...}}; inside that object code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar holding the Solidity port (contract Strategy; its README names the file). Compile both unchanged with the engine's own compiler (amm_competition.evm.compiler.SolidityCompiler) and run amm-match validate on each. Configs: exactly MatchRunner._build_configs with the loop index replaced by the seed s: np.random.default_rng(seed=s), uniform draws in order retail_mean_size, retail_arrival_rate, gbm_sigma from BASELINE_VARIANCE, other fields from the base config, SimulationConfig(seed=s). Run amm_sim_rs.run_batch(strategy_bytecode, vanilla_bytecode, configs, 8) in four blocks of 64 seeds per arm (eight commands, none over 8 minutes); score = edges['submission']. Call gas_stats_reset() before each block and gas_stats() after it: peak and mean afterSwap over successful Submission afterSwap calls, oog and reverts over all Submission callbacks. Result JSON (under 40,000 bytes): key, seeds{from,to}, ib{n,sum,sumsq,rows:[[seed,score],...]}, port{n,sum,sumsq,rows}, paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5:[[seed,diff],...]} with diff = port minus IB per seed and se = sd/sqrt(n), gas{ib{peak_afterswap,mean_afterswap,oog,reverts},port{same}}, validate{ib,port} as pass or fail, block_seconds, engine 'ok' or blocked{step,error}, notes under 1,200 characters (anything odd; numbers, never command output). Report only seeds that actually ran; a block that did not run stays missing and is named in notes.

   what a3-eng-qm2-b was asked

   Track A engine pairing: port Q2 and IB, each alone against VanillaStrategy, on engine seeds {{from}}..{{to}} (256 seeds, yours alone; use no seed outside this range; never fill a missing seed). Engine: git clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge and check out 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704; from the checkout root: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `; if a step fails, report blocked{step,error} and whatever you could still do. Contracts: IB = field code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of IB.sol, contract inputs_b) of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/afd5183e9ff3235334e041c00b0cd19079599a2c6464db95f8c1586712105557. Q2 = https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/f6f4c4cccbd3fd9b0d7a4c4c329011ba1c765a10cc192b1402434033bdd10402: its JSON is {"qm-2": {...}}; inside that object code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar holding the Solidity port (contract Strategy; its README names the file). Compile both unchanged with the engine's own compiler (amm_competition.evm.compiler.SolidityCompiler) and run amm-match validate on each. Configs: exactly MatchRunner._build_configs with the loop index replaced by the seed s: np.random.default_rng(seed=s), uniform draws in order retail_mean_size, retail_arrival_rate, gbm_sigma from BASELINE_VARIANCE, other fields from the base config, SimulationConfig(seed=s). Run amm_sim_rs.run_batch(strategy_bytecode, vanilla_bytecode, configs, 8) in four blocks of 64 seeds per arm (eight commands, none over 8 minutes); score = edges['submission']. Call gas_stats_reset() before each block and gas_stats() after it: peak and mean afterSwap over successful Submission afterSwap calls, oog and reverts over all Submission callbacks. Result JSON (under 40,000 bytes): key, seeds{from,to}, ib{n,sum,sumsq,rows:[[seed,score],...]}, port{n,sum,sumsq,rows}, paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5:[[seed,diff],...]} with diff = port minus IB per seed and se = sd/sqrt(n), gas{ib{peak_afterswap,mean_afterswap,oog,reverts},port{same}}, validate{ib,port} as pass or fail, block_seconds, engine 'ok' or blocked{step,error}, notes under 1,200 characters (anything odd; numbers, never command output). Report only seeds that actually ran; a block that did not run stays missing and is named in notes.

   what a3-port-blend was asked

   Track A, the blend port, copy {{copy}} of 2 (the other copy does the same; do all of it yourself). Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). Start from Q2, an accepted Solidity port of real.py soft=1 with compressed qm tables: https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/f6f4c4cccbd3fd9b0d7a4c4c329011ba1c765a10cc192b1402434033bdd10402 (JSON {"qm-2": {...}}; code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar: contract, scripts, Python reference, README; parity 7e-9 bps, peak 155,745 gas, 23,729 bytes, cost -0.038 vs ref/gauss_qm.json). Add the branch blend from https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/4e88413335e28582aa9e96af6520c248a03c03f6944b561bdc7cf433460e2a97 (code_zb64 the same way; README gives the formulas): on an ambiguous first trade of a step quote the pi^g-weighted log-blend of the arb-branch and retail-branch quotes, g=1.5; in Python it scored +0.319 se 0.011 over gauss+qm on 10000..12047. Steps. 1. Write the Python reference of the new policy (Q2's compressed tables plus the blend) as a run.py module and measure it with pair.py against ref/gauss_qm.json on replica seeds 60000..61023 in 256-seed commands (expect about +0.28); report cost_paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}. 2. Port the blend into the contract in fixed point within every bound: solc 0.8.24 viaIR optimizer 200 evm paris, contract Strategy inheriting AMMStrategyBase, no inline assembly, no CODECOPY data segment (see Q2's README on the XOR fix), runtime <= 24,576 bytes, 32 storage slots; if bytes run short drop phase-0 band columns or rival columns before any sd level and measure the cost of what you dropped. 3. Gates: fee parity with your Python reference within 0.01 bps on every callback of replica seeds 10000..10019 (report callbacks, max_fee_diff_bps, over_0_01_bps); afterSwap peak <= 245,000 including the 21,000 intrinsic; 0 OutOfGas and 0 reverts over a 64-sequence stress run; amm-match validate pass (amm-challenge checkout at 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704, as Q2's README describes). Consume no engine seed. Result JSON (under 50,000 bytes): key, blend{g, where applied, fixed_point}, cost_paired, parity, gas{peak_afterswap,mean_afterswap,oog,reverts}, stress{sequences,reverts,peak_gas}, validate, bytes_runtime, dropped (what and its measured cost), complete (true only when every gate passed), code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of a tar: sources, scripts, Python reference, README; no JSON tables, no build outputs), code_sha256 (sha256 of the code_zb64 string), notes under 1,500 characters (no command output). If a gate fails, still send the code and say which gate.

   what a3-latt-swar was asked

   Track A feasibility, second pass: a lattice filter that fits the callback budget. Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). The episode-2 item https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/1df8af4ba8f080458a601275e5026cc8a6e522784ed7ef42701da69ac2b86671 (code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar; its variants list is in the JSON) ported latt.py exactly (121 cells of 2.5 bps, 33-tap kernel): dt=1 calls 210k gas typical and 518k peak, each silent step 75-100k more, dt=0 calls 25k; coarser cells and truncated kernels cut gas 2-4x and broke parity. Bound: a callback has 250,000 gas including the 21,000 intrinsic and the fee tables take about 60,000, so the filter has about 120,000 at its peak. Try in this order, measuring each on the same callbacks (replica seeds 10000..10004, latt.py with qm_k1e-5.json run blind, as that item did): (a) SWAR: pack four 64-bit cells in one word and convolve with one MUL per four cells, kernel exact; (b) precomputed silent-step operators: the k-step diffusion kernel for k = 1..12 as constants, applied once instead of k times; (c) a quasi-stationary shape: after the first silent step replace the convolution by a parametric spread and re-expand; (d) anything of your own. Feasible means peak <= 120,000 with mean price error <= 0.5 bps on 99 percent of callbacks. Solidity bounds: solc 0.8.24 viaIR optimizer 200 evm paris, no inline assembly, 32 storage slots in all. Consume no engine seed. Result JSON (under 40,000 bytes): key, variants[{name,desc,peak_gas,mean_gas,by_dt{1,2,3-5,6+},max_err_mean_bps,max_err_sd_bps,max_err_pi,share_mean_err_le_0_5bps,bytes_runtime,slots,reverts}], best, feasible, code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of a tar: sources and scripts, no tables), code_sha256 (sha256 of the code_zb64 string), notes under 1,500 characters (where the gas goes, what to try next; no command output).

   what b3-mix2 was asked

   Track B, one idea, measured alone: a two-component Gaussian mixture price belief. Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). The lattice filter (latt.py with qm_k1e-5.json) beats the Gaussian filter (real.py) by about +0.5 over HA on 10000..12047 (ref/lattice_qm.json vs ref/gauss_qm.json), but the exact lattice costs 210k-518k gas a callback and cannot be ported; the Gaussian costs about 60k. Hypothesis: the lattice's value is the two-peaked belief after an ambiguous first trade of a step (arb branch: price pinned at the band edge; retail branch: price where it was). Build a filter that keeps two Gaussians (mean, variance, weight), one per branch, each updated as real.py updates its single Gaussian under that branch's hypothesis, the weights updated by each branch's likelihood of the later observations, collapsed to one Gaussian when a weight falls under a floor or the step closes. Quote from the mixture two ways and keep the better: a moment-matched single Gaussian, or the pi^1.5 log-blend of the two branch quotes from https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/4e88413335e28582aa9e96af6520c248a03c03f6944b561bdc7cf433460e2a97 (code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar; its README gives the blend). Keep the tables and the flag classifier as real.py's. Rules: a policy sees afterSwap inputs only (run.py Blind); tune on replica seeds 60000..60255 (256-seed commands, PROCS=8), confirm the chosen setting once on 60256..60511, freeze the code, then score once on 10000..12047 in four 512-seed run.py commands and pair.py against BOTH ref/gauss_qm.json and ref/lattice_qm.json. The numba runner at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/1134b0f83ff44cf484f8dc780a5c7f0e5d08d2cbbfad3d4ee2d3578ae6fa1ac6 (code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar; fast_replica.py sits beside run.py) is bit-identical to the Python replica and about 100x faster; use it if it runs for you. Result JSON (under 30,000 bytes): key, idea (one sentence), settings_tried[{setting,n,mean_diff,se}], confirm_paired{n,mean_diff,se}, holdout_vs_gauss{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}, holdout_vs_lattice{same}, misread_rate{base,mine}, price_error_bps{base,mine}, gas_estimate{extra_slots,extra_exp_ln_sqrt_per_callback,rough_gas}, code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of a tar: module, scripts, README; no tables), code_sha256 (sha256 of the code_zb64 string), notes under 1,500 characters (what failed first, what to try next; no command output). Never fill a missing seed; report what ran.

   what b3-blend-revise was asked

   Track B, one idea, measured alone: the full two-branch quote on the lattice. Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). Two findings each help a little and concern the same ambiguous first trade of a step. (1) branch-blend, https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/80b9f00d0d387deabd812da152d935cf049fa6654ae5e1cf43a30e16e7dd6830: quote the pi-weighted log-blend of the arb-branch and retail-branch quotes, +0.183 se 0.011 over ref/lattice_qm.json; on the Gaussian filter a sharpened weight pi^g with g=1.5 lifted it to +0.319 (https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/4e88413335e28582aa9e96af6520c248a03c03f6944b561bdc7cf433460e2a97). (2) revise-1, https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/9049572bfda37c44c7556f7e4eb508c335e4746db61af15a345e4791a09bb185: keep both branches' states (s2, synced, cnt/phase) and lattices open after an ambiguous trade, update the branch posterior at later callbacks of the step and at the next step's first trade, and pi-weight the fees of the two branch states: +0.079 se 0.023 on 256 holdout seeds. Each code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar with a README. Build ONE policy: open branches as revise-1 does, quote the sharpened log-blend of the two branch quotes (each from its own branch state and branch lattice) with weight pi^g, and keep updating pi while the branches stay open. Tune g in {1, 1.5, 2} and the ambiguity window (0.05..0.95 or 0.02..0.98) on replica seeds 60000..60255 (256-seed commands, PROCS=8), confirm once on 60256..60511, freeze the code, then score once on 10000..12047 in four 512-seed run.py commands with pair.py against ref/lattice_qm.json. A policy sees afterSwap inputs only (run.py Blind). The numba runner at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/1134b0f83ff44cf484f8dc780a5c7f0e5d08d2cbbfad3d4ee2d3578ae6fa1ac6 (code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar; fast_replica.py sits beside run.py) is bit-identical to the Python replica and about 100x faster; use it if it runs for you. Result JSON (under 30,000 bytes): key, idea (one sentence), settings_tried[{setting,n,mean_diff,se}], confirm_paired{n,mean_diff,se}, holdout_paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}, misread_rate{base,mine}, price_error_bps{base,mine}, gas_estimate{extra_slots,extra_lookups_per_callback,rough_gas}, code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of a tar: module, scripts, README; no tables), code_sha256 (sha256 of the code_zb64 string), notes under 1,500 characters (what each part adds, what to try next; no command output). Never fill a missing seed; report what ran.

   what b3-fresh3 was asked

   Track B: arb or retail, from the question alone. Get the solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md (its scripts run as python3 -I from that folder). The lattice filter (latt.py with qm_k1e-5.json) decides whether the first own trade of a step is the arb or a retail order and is wrong 16.2 percent of the time; with the true flag the same tables score +2.72 more over 10000..12047 (61 percent of the whole gap to perfect information; the true price given the flag is the next +1.48). Misreads are small fills near the quote edge (25 percent misread in the smallest size quartile, 5 percent in the largest); the filter is already calibrated on fill size, timing, distance, side and the previous step's retail count (a trained logistic correction gained +0.02). Do not spend time on: the README's five ideas, DP_MASK quote zones, kappa, quote-aware fill likelihood, table classifiers, per-run parameter estimation, router evidence (+0.09), hindsight revision of the state (+0.08), finer lattices (0.00), posterior-value quote search (-2.9). What did help: quoting a pi-weighted log-blend of the arb-branch and retail-branch quotes on ambiguous trades (+0.18 on the lattice, +0.32 on the Gaussian). Think from the game: what else in the afterSwap stream separates the two hypotheses, what quote makes the next observation separate them, or what loss the quote should minimise under the posterior? Pick ONE idea of your own, state it in one sentence, implement it as a run.py module (a policy sees afterSwap inputs only, run.py Blind), tune on replica seeds 60000..60255 (256-seed commands, PROCS=8), confirm once on 60256..60511, freeze the code, score once on 10000..12047 in four 512-seed run.py commands with pair.py against ref/lattice_qm.json. The numba runner at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/1134b0f83ff44cf484f8dc780a5c7f0e5d08d2cbbfad3d4ee2d3578ae6fa1ac6 (code_zb64 is base64 of zlib of a tar; fast_replica.py sits beside run.py) is bit-identical to the Python replica and about 100x faster; use it if it runs for you. Result JSON (under 30,000 bytes): key, idea, settings_tried[{setting,n,mean_diff,se}], confirm_paired{n,mean_diff,se}, holdout_paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}, misread_rate{base,mine}, price_error_bps{base,mine}, gas_estimate, code_zb64 (base64 of zlib of a tar: module, scripts, README; no tables), code_sha256 (sha256 of the code_zb64 string), notes under 1,500 characters (why it should work, what failed, what next; no command output). A clean negative result is accepted. Never fill a missing seed; report what ran.

   the whole memo

   EPISODE 3 (2026-11-10). 18 results read; 44 items used before this episode, 14 spawned now (58 of 240), 17 episodes left. Still running from earlier: b1-ideas/idea-twohyp, b1-fresh/fresh-1, b2-blend/blend-tune (asked for in read); a1-compress's four remaining items were cancelled (superseded by the qm ports below). TRACK A FINDINGS. (1) ENGINE PIPELINE TRUSTED: a2-engine-plain, all four items accepted, both arms on 12000000..12001023: P2 over IB pooled n 1024 mean_diff +2.2064 se 0.0497 (sum 2259.302724, sumsq 7576.407494; per item +2.263/+2.081/+2.134/+2.347). Prediction was +2.24 (replica +2.83 over HA minus 0.59), so the replica-to-engine rule holds within 0.04. ib_sum_check equal on the three ranges that had episode-1 IB rows. P2 gas on the engine: peak 179,316-193,866, mean 82,8xx; IB peak 234,958, mean 135,2xx. Expected board score of P2 = 524.2, just under 10th. (2) QM PORTS: both a2-port-qm copies complete:true. qm-2 (result sha f6f4c4cccbd3fd9b0d7a4c4c329011ba1c765a10cc192b1402434033bdd10402; NOTE its JSON is wrapped as {"qm-2": {...}}; code sha 988ef957e0f6633583384005936a94cee2816b8202feadbc2a633ee318e50c1c) is the one: s and c tables kept, 5 of 8 sd levels (0,4,12,20,34 bps), 33 w knots, 7 band + 41 rival cols, phase 2 shares phase 1 (free), 8-bit 1-bps residuals in 459 PUSH32 words; cost vs ref/gauss_qm.json -0.038 se 0.012 on 60000..61023; parity 6.8e-9 bps on 214,310 callbacks; peak 155,745 gas incl. intrinsic, mean 59,801; validate pass; stress 0 reverts; 23,729 runtime bytes (847 spare). qm-1 (sha ae6097410067e83beaf870a7f7399bba23ed7abccf8d5cc35a274f7ef7b3883a) dropped the synced flag: cost -0.11, peak 165k, 23,879 bytes; spare. Single-factor costs (1024 seeds): sd levels cost most (4 levels -0.038, 3 levels -0.098); s-only -0.021; 71 knots vs 33 -0.001. Lesson both copies hit: solc's constant optimizer turns repeated table words into a CODECOPY segment that validate flags; XOR-scramble bytes by position so every word is unique. Expected qm-2 on the engine: +3.77 - 0.04 - 0.59 = +3.14 over IB (score about 525.1, 7th-9th). (3) LATTICE IN-CONTRACT INFEASIBLE as ported (a2-latt-gas): exact latt.py port peak 518k at dt=1 (210k typical), +75-100k per silent step, dt=0 25k; coarser cells/truncated kernels cut 2-4x and break parity (5 bps cells 24 bps error); none under 170k. Suggested routes: SWAR packing, precomputed multi-step silent operators, quasi-stationary shape, or a parametric belief. (4) a1-compress/rivalmode: 13 uniform knots cost -0.27 on holdout; uniform knots lose, nonuniform (qm ports) win. TRACK B FINDINGS (all vs ref/lattice_qm.json on 10000..12047 unless said). blend-gauss (sha 4e88413335e28582aa9e96af6520c248a03c03f6944b561bdc7cf433460e2a97): branch-blend with sharpened weight pi^g, g=1.5, on the GAUSSIAN+qm policy = +0.319 se 0.011 vs ref/gauss_qm.json (tuning g: 1.0 +0.275, 1.5 +0.325, 2 +0.278, 8 +0.04; confirm +0.249); ambiguous callbacks 57% of all; est. +15-35k gas on those. FIRST B RESULT OVER THE 0.3 BAR: it goes into A's next port now. idea-posterior -2.87 (drop). idea-trained +0.023 (the filter is already calibrated on every feature tried; drop). revise-1 +0.079 se 0.023 on 256 holdout seeds (hindsight misread 16.1% -> 13.0% but forward value small; pi-blending branch-state fees was the only positive part; slow seat). fresh2-1 and fresh2-2 both chose finer lattices: +0.002 (drop; next fresh brief lists it as tried). ORACLE GAP (gap-1, 512 tuning seeds, perfect minus lattice = +4.42): true flag alone +2.715 (61%); true price given flag +1.483; rival+phase after flag+price +0.198; perfect tables vs qm +0.026. Flag inference is where the ceiling sits; price given flag second. With Gaussian+qm+blend the port tops out near +3.46 over IB (about 525.5, 7th-8th); first needs about +6.4 over IB, i.e. most of the flag gap. DECISIONS THIS EPISODE (14 items). Track A (11): a3-eng-qm2-a and a3-eng-qm2-b (4 items each, 256 fresh engine seeds each, qm-2 and IB both arms in the same item, 64-seed blocks, paired stats, gas, validate) on 12001024..12003071; a3-port-blend, 2 copies: qm-2 plus the g=1.5 branch blend in fixed point, Python reference first (cost vs gauss_qm on 60000..61023, expect about +0.28), full gate set; a3-latt-swar, 1 item: SWAR / precomputed silent operators / quasi-stationary lattice, feasible = peak <= 120k with <= 0.5 bps error on 99% of callbacks. Track B (3): b3-mix2 (two-Gaussian mixture belief: the lattice's bimodality at Gaussian gas, scored vs both refs), b3-blend-revise (branch-blend g + revise-1's open branches, one policy, vs lattice_qm), b3-fresh3 (one fresh idea, long do-not-repeat list). SEED LEDGER. Engine: 12000000..12001023 used (IB and P2); 12001024..12003071 assigned to a3-eng-qm2-a/-b (qm-2 and IB). Next free engine seed: 12003072. Replica: tuning 60000..60255, confirmation 60256..60511, port cost 60000..61023, diagnostics 60000..60511 and 61000..61255; holdout 10000..12047 once per idea. EPISODE 4 SHOULD: (1) Pool a3-eng-qm2-a/-b (n up to 2048): expect +3.14 +-0.15 over IB; if >= +2.7 the goal's bar is met on 2,048 seeds, so assign 12003072..12005119 to the same port (8 more items, two 4-item batches) to reach 4,096 seeds; if it is below +2.5 spawn a per-seed trace item (worst seeds, replica vs engine callbacks) before more engine work. (2) If an a3-port-blend copy is complete:true with cost >= +0.15 vs gauss_qm, it replaces qm-2 for every later engine item (fresh seeds only; never rerun a port on used seeds); if both failed on bytes, spawn a denser-encoding item (9-bit cells or a second XOR scheme) rather than dropping sd levels. (3) Track B: read idea-twohyp, fresh-1, blend-tune; anything >= +0.3 vs its ref goes into the next port; b3-mix2 >= +0.2 vs gauss_qm with a gas estimate under 100k means a port item; 0 to 0.3 gets one tuning item; drop the rest. If blend-tune beats g=1.5 by >= 0.1, pass its setting to the next port. (4) a3-latt-swar feasible means a lattice port item (2 copies) from qm-2 plus its filter; otherwise the lattice is closed for the contract. (5) Budget: 182 items after this episode; keep 12-18 per episode; from here engine confirmation of a passing port takes the largest share. WATCH FOR: the {"qm-2": {...}} wrapper in qm-2's result (briefs now say so); items that stall for whole episodes (a1-compress ran 2 episodes; cancel what a later result supersedes); results over 60,000 bytes (every brief caps its result and forbids tables in the tar); never write a platform condition in a brief; workers quoting command output in notes (briefs say numbers only).

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4. Round 4a4-eng3-a4 of 4 backa4-eng3-b4 of 4 backa4-port-mix22 of 2 backb4-thr3 of 3 backb4-cutfn1 of 1 backb4-qm2h1 of 1 backb4-flag-split1 of 1 backb4-fresh42 of 2 back

   Agent #559 planned it.

   what a4-eng3-a was asked

   Track A engine pairing: three contracts, IB, Q2 and PB, each alone against VanillaStrategy, on engine seeds {{from}}..{{to}} (256 seeds, yours alone; use no seed outside this range; never fill a missing seed). Engine: git clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge and check out 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704; from the checkout root: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. If a setup step fails, return the JSON {"key":"{{key}}","engine":"blocked","blocked":{"step","error"} } and stop. Sources: each is the JSON served at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<id>, and code_zb64 in it is base64, then zlib. IB: id afd5183e9ff3235334e041c00b0cd19079599a2c6464db95f8c1586712105557; its code_zb64 decodes to the Solidity source itself. Q2: id f6f4c4cccbd3fd9b0d7a4c4c329011ba1c765a10cc192b1402434033bdd10402; the JSON is one object under the key "qm-2"; its code_zb64 decodes to a tar, take qm-2/Strategy.sol. PB: id 2ade1a24f75836479efeeaff574e452ff3ef5c23fd856c50bd2c1a4a10d78463; its code_zb64 decodes to a tar, take pb-1/Strategy.sol. Compile each unchanged with the engine's SolidityCompiler (contract Strategy) and run amm-match validate on each. Run amm_sim_rs.run_batch(X, VanillaStrategy, configs, 8) with configs as MatchRunner._build_configs builds them, simulation i having seed {{from}}+i; four 64-seed commands per contract, twelve in all, none over 8 minutes (if a 64-seed command would pass 8 minutes use 32-seed commands and say so). A seed's score is the submission's edge. Save each block's rows under scratch/ as it finishes, so an interrupted run resumes at the next block. Result: one JSON object under 45,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","seeds":{"from","to"},"ib":{"n","sum","sumsq","rows":[[seed,edge],...]},"q2":{the same},"pb":{the same},"pb_minus_ib":{"n","mean_diff","se","sum","sumsq","worst5":[[seed,diff] x5]},"q2_minus_ib":{the same},"pb_minus_q2":{the same},"gas":{"ib":{"peak_afterswap","mean_afterswap","oog","reverts"},"q2":{the same},"pb":{the same} } from gas_stats(),"validate":{"ib","q2","pb"},"valid","engine":"ok","notes"}. Row edges rounded to 6 decimals; sums and paired figures from the unrounded values. Pair only seeds that all three contracts returned and give n. valid is false on any OutOfGas, any revert, or a Q2 or PB afterSwap peak over 245,000. Numbers only: no command text and no command output in the result; notes under 800 characters.

   what a4-eng3-b was asked

   Track A engine pairing: three contracts, IB, Q2 and PB, each alone against VanillaStrategy, on engine seeds {{from}}..{{to}} (256 seeds, yours alone; use no seed outside this range; never fill a missing seed). Engine: git clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge and check out 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704; from the checkout root: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. If a setup step fails, return the JSON {"key":"{{key}}","engine":"blocked","blocked":{"step","error"} } and stop. Sources: each is the JSON served at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<id>, and code_zb64 in it is base64, then zlib. IB: id afd5183e9ff3235334e041c00b0cd19079599a2c6464db95f8c1586712105557; its code_zb64 decodes to the Solidity source itself. Q2: id f6f4c4cccbd3fd9b0d7a4c4c329011ba1c765a10cc192b1402434033bdd10402; the JSON is one object under the key "qm-2"; its code_zb64 decodes to a tar, take qm-2/Strategy.sol. PB: id 2ade1a24f75836479efeeaff574e452ff3ef5c23fd856c50bd2c1a4a10d78463; its code_zb64 decodes to a tar, take pb-1/Strategy.sol. Compile each unchanged with the engine's SolidityCompiler (contract Strategy) and run amm-match validate on each. Run amm_sim_rs.run_batch(X, VanillaStrategy, configs, 8) with configs as MatchRunner._build_configs builds them, simulation i having seed {{from}}+i; four 64-seed commands per contract, twelve in all, none over 8 minutes (if a 64-seed command would pass 8 minutes use 32-seed commands and say so). A seed's score is the submission's edge. Save each block's rows under scratch/ as it finishes, so an interrupted run resumes at the next block. Result: one JSON object under 45,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","seeds":{"from","to"},"ib":{"n","sum","sumsq","rows":[[seed,edge],...]},"q2":{the same},"pb":{the same},"pb_minus_ib":{"n","mean_diff","se","sum","sumsq","worst5":[[seed,diff] x5]},"q2_minus_ib":{the same},"pb_minus_q2":{the same},"gas":{"ib":{"peak_afterswap","mean_afterswap","oog","reverts"},"q2":{the same},"pb":{the same} } from gas_stats(),"validate":{"ib","q2","pb"},"valid","engine":"ok","notes"}. Row edges rounded to 6 decimals; sums and paired figures from the unrounded values. Pair only seeds that all three contracts returned and give n. valid is false on any OutOfGas, any revert, or a Q2 or PB afterSwap peak over 245,000. Numbers only: no command text and no command output in the result; notes under 800 characters.

   what a4-port-mix2 was asked

   Track A, the mixture port, copy {{copy}} of 2. Solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read its README.md. Earlier results are JSON at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<id>; code_zb64 in them is base64, zlib, tar. Start from PB (id 2ade1a24f75836479efeeaff574e452ff3ef5c23fd856c50bd2c1a4a10d78463): pb-1/ is an accepted Solidity port of real.py soft=1 with compressed qm tables; its README says how to rebuild and check it. Remove its branch blend. Port mix.py (id f8a1a335228c7ce2b76273b5521a0857f7cd1b60e57aa3ec420eecc6446a64c7), mix:MixPolicy quote=0 floor=0.00001: two Gaussians (arb pin, cut retail prior) kept across steps, quotes from their moment-matched Gaussian. 1. Reference: mix.py on PB's tables (x_c2.json) plus an option thr: the trade is the arb when pi > thr (default 0.5). 2. Gas: each silent step cuts every component, and engine gas is about 33,000 over pyrevm on every call, 50,000 at the peak. If two components do not fit, bound the loop (say one Gaussian after K silent steps) in contract and reference alike. 3. Cost: the reference against a fresh `gauss soft=1 qm=qm_k1e-5.json` run on replica seeds 60000..61023, thr 0.5. 4. Contract: THR one constant, <= 32 slots, no assembly, runtime <= 24,576 bytes, no CODECOPY data segment. Short of bytes: sd levels 4 and 20 bps alone cost -0.010 elsewhere; measure first. Gates: fees within 0.01 bps of the reference on every callback of replica seeds 10000..10019, at thr 0.5 and at thr 0.9; pyrevm afterSwap peak incl. the 21,000 intrinsic <= 195,000 there and on a forced worst case (first trade after 13+ silent steps, two live components, pi near 0.5); 0 OutOfGas, 0 revert; amm-match validate passes; report 64 stress sequences. Engine checkout: git clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge and check out 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704; from the checkout root: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `; if a step fails say so under blocked. Use no engine seed. Result: one JSON under 58,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","bound_rule","cost_paired":{"n","mean_diff","se","sum","sumsq","worst5":[[seed,diff] x5]},"parity":{"thr05":{"callbacks","max_fee_diff_bps"},"thr09":{the same} },"gas":{"peak_afterswap","mean_afterswap","worst_case_peak","oog","reverts"},"stress_reverts","validate","bytes_runtime","slots","complete","blocked","code_zb64","code_sha256","notes"}. complete: every gate passes and cost mean_diff >= +0.25. code_zb64: a tar of Strategy.sol, reference, generator, checks; no tables, no traces. Numbers only, no command text; notes under 1,500 characters.

   what b4-thr was asked

   Track B, one idea on one base policy: the cost-weighted arb/retail call on {{base}}. Plain Python on the replica. Solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md, sections Harness and Rules for both; scripts run as python3 -I from that folder. Earlier results are JSON at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<id>; code_zb64 in them is base64, zlib, tar. The idea: every reference policy calls the first own trade of a step the arb when its posterior pi > 0.5; the call only picks phase 0 or phase 1 and whether the fill updates the rival spot. On the lattice filter, calling it the arb only when pi > 0.9 gained +0.323 se 0.011 on the holdout (id 22819a1542e36a609ec3d02a160b4b7aaf345d26d7184ef6517abc35b85cfbfc, thrpol.py), flat from 0.85 to 0.95: calling a retail fill the arb costs more than the reverse. Your item: the same cut on the base policy {{base}}, which is {{where}}. Add an option thr to it: only the comparison that sets is_arb changes; the belief update, and any blend weight, stay as they are. Check thr=0.5 reproduces the base within 1e-9 a seed on 8 seeds. Tune thr over 0.5..0.99 on replica seeds 60000..60255, paired against the base on the same seeds; confirm the chosen thr once on 60256..60511; then freeze and score once on 10000..12047 in four 512-seed commands, and run the base (thr 0.5) on those seeds too. Blind: a policy sees only afterSwap inputs (run.py enforces it). Never fill a missing seed; no command over 8 minutes: use smaller seed chunks if one would run longer. Result: one JSON object under 30,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","base","settings_tried":[{"setting","n","mean_diff","se"}],"thr","confirm_paired":{"n","mean_diff","se"},"holdout_vs_base":{"n","mean_diff","se","sum","sumsq","worst5":[[seed,diff] x5]},"holdout_vs_gauss_qm":{the same, by pair.py against ref/gauss_qm.json},"holdout_vs_lattice_qm":{the same, against ref/lattice_qm.json},"misread_rate":{"base","mine"},"price_error_bps":{"base","mine"},"gas_estimate","code_zb64","code_sha256","notes"}. code_zb64: a tar of your policy file and a short README, no tables. Numbers only: no command text or output; notes under 1,500 characters.

   what b4-cutfn was asked

   Track B, one idea: the arb/retail cut as a function of the trade. Replica only; numpy and numba in a venv are allowed. Solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md, sections Harness and Rules for both; scripts run as python3 -I from that folder. Earlier results are JSON at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<id>; code_zb64 in them is base64, zlib, tar. Background: the lattice policy calls the first own trade of a step the arb when its posterior pi > 0.5; the call picks phase 0 or 1 and whether the fill updates the rival spot. A constant cut of 0.9 instead gained +0.323 se 0.011 on the holdout (id 22819a1542e36a609ec3d02a160b4b7aaf345d26d7184ef6517abc35b85cfbfc: thrpol.py for run.py, fast_thr.py a numba runner, both with option thr). Misreads rose from 16% to 29% while edge rose, so the cost of a wrong call, not its rate, is what matters. Your item: replace the constant by a cut that depends on what afterSwap shows at that trade: the fill size d = |ln(s/sp)|, the belief sd before the trade, dt since the last own trade, the side of the fill against the own displacement w, the distance of the arb reading from the belief mean. Method: on tuning seeds, with the true flag read for measurement only (clsdata.py and trace.py show how), estimate for bins of those features the edge lost by each wrong call, set the cut per bin from the two costs, keep at most 3 features and 27 bins, and compare to the constant 0.9. The policy itself stays blind. Tune on replica seeds 60000..60255, confirm once on 60256..60511, then freeze and score once on 10000..12047 in four 512-seed commands; run thr=0.9 on the same seeds for the paired gain. Blind: a policy sees only afterSwap inputs (run.py enforces it). Never fill a missing seed; no command over 8 minutes: use smaller seed chunks if one would run longer. Result: one JSON object under 30,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","cut_rule","cost_table":[{"bin","n","cost_arb_called_retail","cost_retail_called_arb","cut"}],"settings_tried":[{"setting","n","mean_diff","se"}],"confirm_paired":{"n","mean_diff","se"},"holdout_vs_lattice_qm":{"n","mean_diff","se","sum","sumsq","worst5":[[seed,diff] x5]} by pair.py against ref/lattice_qm.json,"holdout_vs_thr09":{the same, against the constant cut 0.9},"misread_rate":{"base","mine"},"price_error_bps":{"base","mine"},"gas_estimate","code_zb64","code_sha256","notes"}. code_zb64: a tar of your policy file and a short README, no tables. Numbers only: no command text or output; notes under 1,500 characters.

   what b4-qm2h was asked

   Track B, one idea: expected-value quotes over the two readings of a first trade. Replica only; numpy and numba in a venv. Solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md, sections Harness and Rules for both; scripts run as python3 -I from that folder. Earlier results are JSON at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<id>; code_zb64 in them is base64, zlib, tar. Background: at the first own trade of a step real.py holds two readings: the arb (price exactly lp, phase 0, rival not updated) with weight pi, and retail (price N(mt, vt), phase 1, rival updated from the fill) with weight 1 - pi. It then looks up one quote at the mixture's mean and sd, in the phase of the likelier reading. Two cheap repairs each gained about +0.3 on the holdout: a pi^1.5 log-blend of the two readings' quotes (gb.py, id 4e88413335e28582aa9e96af6520c248a03c03f6944b561bdc7cf433460e2a97) and calling the arb only above pi 0.9. Your item, the exact version: on a first trade with 0.001 < pi < 0.999 choose the ask and bid prices that maximise pi * Q0(arb state, quotes) + (1 - pi) * Q1(retail state, quotes), with Q the action values the solver saves (DP_SAVEVN=1 with dp.py; qmdp.py shows how action values are formed from the saved values and averaged over a price spread, kappa 1e-5). Express one pair of absolute quotes as offsets in each reading's own state (its w, its R, its sd). Every other call stays real.py soft=1 qm=qm_k1e-5.json. Check first: with pi forced to 0 or 1 your chooser returns the qm table quotes within one 5 bps lattice step on 1,000 recorded calls; an earlier whole-posterior chooser lost 2.87, so measure nothing before this check passes. If the solve does not finish in one command, resume it with DP_STATE and DP_SWEEPS=40 until it prints SOLVED. Tune on replica seeds 60000..60255, confirm once on 60256..60511, then freeze and score once on 10000..12047 in four 512-seed commands. Blind: a policy sees only afterSwap inputs (run.py enforces it). Never fill a missing seed; no command over 8 minutes: use smaller seed chunks if one would run longer. Result: one JSON object under 30,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","check":{"calls","max_offset_diff_bps","passed"},"settings_tried":[{"setting","n","mean_diff","se"}],"confirm_paired":{"n","mean_diff","se"},"holdout_vs_gauss_qm":{"n","mean_diff","se","sum","sumsq","worst5":[[seed,diff] x5]} by pair.py against ref/gauss_qm.json,"holdout_vs_lattice_qm":{the same, against ref/lattice_qm.json},"misread_rate":{"base","mine"},"price_error_bps":{"base","mine"},"gas_estimate","code_zb64","code_sha256","notes"}. code_zb64: a tar of your policy file and a short README, no tables. Numbers only: no command text or output; notes under 1,500 characters.

   what b4-flag-split was asked

   Track B diagnostic, one question: where inside the policy is the true arb/retail flag worth its +2.72? Plain Python on the replica; a diagnostic, so it reads the true flag and is not a policy. Solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md, sections Harness and Rules for both; scripts run as python3 -I from that folder. Earlier results are JSON at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<id>; code_zb64 in them is base64, zlib, tar. Background: latt.py with oraclearb=1 (the true flag as pi) scores +2.72 over the blind lattice (ref/flag_qm.json against ref/lattice_qm.json). The flag enters in three places at the first own trade of a step: (a) the belief: pin the price at the arb reading or keep the cut prior; (b) the phase: tables of phase 0 or phase 1; (c) the rival spot: whether the fill updates it and sets synced. A blind change of the call alone (arb only when pi > 0.9, id 22819a1542e36a609ec3d02a160b4b7aaf345d26d7184ef6517abc35b85cfbfc, thrpol.py) gained +0.323 while leaving (a) as it was. Your item: subclass latt.py's policy so the true flag can be given to each of (a), (b), (c) separately, the others keeping the blind pi (belief) or the blind call pi > 0.5 (phase, rival). Run the eight combinations, from none (must equal latt.py within 1e-9 a seed) to all three (must equal oraclearb=1), on replica seeds 60000..60511, each paired against the blind lattice on the same seeds; repeat the eight with the blind call at pi > 0.9. Then, for (b) and (c) only, split the gain by the kind of error it repairs: retail called arb, and arb called retail, with counts per 1,000 first trades and edge per repaired call. Use no holdout seed. Never fill a missing seed; no command over 8 minutes: use smaller seed chunks if one would run longer. Result: one JSON object under 30,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","seeds","combos":[{"belief","phase","rival","call_cut","n","mean_diff","se","sum","sumsq"}],"sanity":{"none_equals_lattice","all_equals_oraclearb"},"by_error":[{"part","error","per_1000_first_trades","edge_per_repair","total"}],"reading":"three sentences: which part holds the gain and what a blind policy could reach of it","code_zb64","code_sha256","notes"}. code_zb64: a tar of your scripts, no tables. Numbers only: no command text or output; notes under 1,500 characters.

   what b4-fresh4 was asked

   Track B, a fresh idea, item {{n}} of 2 (the other works alone on its own idea). Replica only; numpy and numba in a venv are allowed. Solved folder: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved; read scratch/solved/README.md, sections Harness and Rules for both; scripts run as python3 -I from that folder. Earlier results are JSON at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<id>; code_zb64 in them is base64, zlib, tar. Skip the README's list of ideas under Track B and under Open: start from the question alone. The question: the policy is blind to whether the first own trade of a step is the arb or a retail order. With the true flag the same code scores +2.72 more; the top of the board sits there. What, using only afterSwap inputs and the quotes you choose, recovers the most of it? Best so far, your base: the lattice filter with the arb called only when pi > 0.9 (id 22819a1542e36a609ec3d02a160b4b7aaf345d26d7184ef6517abc35b85cfbfc: thrpol.py for run.py, fast_thr.py a numba runner; +0.323 se 0.011 over ref/lattice_qm.json). The cost of a wrong call matters, not the misread rate (16% became 29% and edge rose). Already measured, do not repeat: finer lattice cells (0.00); per-run sigma or order rate (+0.02); router likelihood per price hypothesis (+0.09 at 1M gas); a correction trained on filter features (+0.02); quotes against the whole posterior (-2.87); revising rival and phase when a later callback flips the label (+0.08 to +0.12); a pi-weighted log-blend of the two readings' quotes (+0.18 to +0.22); a two-Gaussian belief (equal to the lattice); size, timing and exact-amount features in the classifier (no change); quote-zone masks, kappa above 1e-5, a quote-aware fill likelihood. Pick one idea, say why it should beat these, and measure it alone on top of the base. Tune on replica seeds 60000..60255 against the base, confirm once on 60256..60511, then freeze and score once on 10000..12047 in four 512-seed commands, with the base (thr=0.9) run on the same seeds. Blind: a policy sees only afterSwap inputs (run.py enforces it). Never fill a missing seed; no command over 8 minutes: use smaller seed chunks if one would run longer. Result: one JSON object under 30,000 bytes: {"key":"{{key}}","idea","why","settings_tried":[{"setting","n","mean_diff","se"}],"confirm_paired":{"n","mean_diff","se"},"holdout_vs_lattice_qm":{"n","mean_diff","se","sum","sumsq","worst5":[[seed,diff] x5]} by pair.py against ref/lattice_qm.json,"holdout_vs_thr09":{the same, against the base},"misread_rate":{"base","mine"},"price_error_bps":{"base","mine"},"gas_estimate","code_zb64","code_sha256","notes"}. code_zb64: a tar of your policy file and a short README, no tables. Numbers only: no command text or output; notes under 1,500 characters.

   the whole memo

   EPISODE 4 (2026-11-10). 16 results read; 58 items used before this episode, 18 spawned now (76 of 240), 16 episodes left. Unreturned since episode 1: b1-ideas/idea-twohyp, b1-fresh/fresh-1 (in read again; do not wait on them). TRACK A FINDINGS. (1) Q2 CLEARS THE BAR ON 2,048 ENGINE SEEDS. a3-eng-qm2-a/-b, all 8 items accepted, both arms on 12001024..12003071, none missing: Q2 (= a2-port-qm/qm-2) minus IB pooled n 2048 mean_diff +3.0444 se 0.0325 (sum 6234.996342, sumsq 23411.221253; items 2.905..3.191; every item's sum and sumsq recomputed from its rows: all match). 19 of 2,048 seeds negative; worst -2.225 (12001701), -1.232 (12002425), -1.207 (12002099). Gas on the engine: Q2 afterSwap peak 204,917, mean 92,716; IB peak 237,142, mean 135.2k; 0 OutOfGas, 0 reverts, validate pass everywhere. Forecast was +3.14: 0.10 short, inside the 0.2 rule. +2.7 is passed by 10.6 se; expected board score about 525.0 (8th-9th). ENGINE GAS RUNS ABOVE PYREVM: Q2 mean 59,801 pyrevm against 92,716 engine (+33k every call), peak 155,745 against 204,917 (+49k); P2 the same. Size port gates by it: pyrevm peak <= 195,000. (2) BLEND PORTS: both a3-port-blend copies complete:true, same policy (gb.py g=1.5 on Q2's tables), cost vs fresh gauss+qm on 60000..61023 +0.2644 se 0.0163 (sum 270.718713, sumsq 348.203571; includes Q2's -0.038 compression), parity 2.8e-9 bps on 215,003 callbacks, validate pass, 0 reverts, 0 CODECOPY. pb-1 = PB (result sha 2ade1a24f75836479efeeaff574e452ff3ef5c23fd856c50bd2c1a4a10d78463, tar pb-1/, Strategy.sol inside): 21,915 runtime bytes (2,661 spare: XOR 0x40 on table bytes saved 2,526), pyrevm peak 167,214, mean 65,970. pb-2 (sha d63db308188f582d9ec3e0331369885705dca5c94ffd07ded20159c10738c576): 22,118 bytes, peak 172,801; spare. Expected PB on the engine: about +3.3 over IB, peak about 217k. (3) LATTICE IN THE CONTRACT IS CLOSED. a3-latt-swar: SWAR cut dt=1 peak 558k to 403k only, best accurate hybrid peaks 1.49M; an 8-word lane design is estimated, not measured, at 110-150k. The two-Gaussian mixture below gets within 0.07 of the lattice at Gaussian cost, so nothing more goes to this. (4) compress-sdlevels: with full rows and columns, sd levels {4, 20} bps alone cost -0.010 se 0.010 on the holdout ({4,20,34}: -0.006); one level costs -0.6 or worse. Q2 keeps 5 levels (0,4,12,20,34), so a later port can buy bytes by dropping to 2. TRACK B FINDINGS (holdout 10000..12047). mix2-1 (result sha f8a1a335228c7ce2b76273b5521a0857f7cd1b60e57aa3ec420eecc6446a64c7, mix.py, mix:MixPolicy quote=0 floor=0.00001): two Gaussians kept across steps (arb pin, cut retail prior), weights by silent-step mass, quote from the moment-matched Gaussian: +0.428 se 0.0125 vs ref/gauss_qm.json, -0.067 se 0.009 vs ref/lattice_qm.json; 3 extra slots, est. +20-60k gas on first trades (unmeasured). The pi^1.5 blend on top of it was worse (tuning +0.32 against +0.44): mix2 replaces the blend, it does not stack. fresh3-1 (sha 22819a1542e36a609ec3d02a160b4b7aaf345d26d7184ef6517abc35b85cfbfc, thrpol.py + numba fast_thr.py): COST-WEIGHTED CALL, arb called only when pi > 0.9 instead of 0.5, belief untouched: +0.323 se 0.0107 vs ref/lattice_qm.json (+4.586 vs HA), flat over 0.85..0.95, zero gas (one constant); misreads rise 16.2% to 28.9% while edge rises: the cost of each wrong call is the target, not the misread rate. blend-tune (lattice): g=2 plus blending the stored rival estimate +0.223 se 0.011 (rival blend alone +0.03 to +0.045); below 0.3. br-1 (blend + open branches): +0.118 se 0.011, 450k gas; dropped. Standing on the replica vs HA: gauss+qm +3.77; +blend +4.09; mix2 +4.20; lattice +4.26; lattice+thr +4.59; true flag +6.98. DECISIONS THIS EPISODE (18 items; A 10, B 8). A: a4-eng3-a and a4-eng3-b, 4 items each, 256 fresh engine seeds each on 12003072..12005119, THREE arms in the same item (IB, Q2, PB), 64-seed commands; result keys ib, q2, pb (n, sum, sumsq, rows), pb_minus_ib, q2_minus_ib, pb_minus_q2 (paired), gas, validate, valid. This takes Q2 to 4,096 paired seeds (the goal's 4,000-seed bar) and gives PB its first 2,048 against both. a4-port-mix2, 2 copies (mix-1, mix-2): mix.py ported from PB's code base (blend removed), THR a contract constant with parity at thr 0.5 and at 0.9, a bound on the silent-step loop if two components do not fit the gas, cost vs fresh gauss+qm on 60000..61023 (expect about +0.39; complete needs >= +0.25), pyrevm peak <= 195,000 incl. a forced worst case, full gate set. B: b4-thr, 3 items: the pi cut on gauss+qm (thr-gauss), on mix2 (thr-mix2) and on the Gaussian blend gb.py (thr-blend); each gives the tuned thr, holdout_vs_base, holdout_vs_gauss_qm, holdout_vs_lattice_qm. b4-cutfn (cutfn-1): the cut as a function of fill size, sd, dt, side, from measured per-bin costs of each wrong call, on the lattice vs the constant 0.9. b4-qm2h (qm2h-1): exact expected-value quote over the two readings using the solver's action values (needs the dp.py solve; has a must-pass check at pi 0 and 1 because idea-posterior lost 2.87). b4-flag-split (split-1): diagnostic on 60000..60511, the true flag given separately to belief pin, phase, rival update (8 combinations, at call cut 0.5 and 0.9) to say which part holds the +2.72 and how much a blind call can reach. b4-fresh4, 2 items: fresh ideas on top of lattice thr=0.9 with the full do-not-repeat list. SEED LEDGER. Engine: 12000000..12001023 used (IB, P2); 12001024..12003071 used (IB, Q2); 12003072..12005119 assigned now (IB, Q2, PB). Next free engine seed: 12005120. Replica: tuning 60000..60255, confirmation 60256..60511, port cost 60000..61023, diagnostics 60000..60511 and 61000..61255; holdout 10000..12047 once per idea. EPISODE 5 SHOULD: (1) Pool a4-eng3-a/-b. q2_minus_ib over these 2,048 seeds added to this episode's sum 6234.996342 and sumsq 23411.221253 (n 2048) gives Q2 on 4,096: at mean >= +2.7 Track A's bar is met and Q2 is the standing contract (code sha 988ef957e0f6633583384005936a94cee2816b8202feadbc2a633ee318e50c1c). pb_minus_q2 should be about +0.26 to +0.30; check PB's engine peak <= 245,000 and valid true. If PB is not at least +0.15 over Q2, spawn one trace item before trusting replica gains of the blend family. (2) Port: if a mix copy is complete:true, and thr-mix2 shows holdout_vs_base >= +0.15, spawn one small item that sets THR to the tuned value in that port, reruns parity and cost, and returns the contract; then run that contract (or the mix port at thr 0.5 if thr does not carry) on fresh seeds from 12005120 with IB and the best earlier port as arms, 8 items first (2,048 seeds), 8 more next episode. Expected: mix2 about +3.4 over IB, with thr up to +3.7 (about 525.7, 5th-7th). If both mix copies fail on gas, fall back to PB plus THR (thr-blend says what that is worth) as the next engine arm. (3) Track B: the route to first needs about +3 more than Q2, and only the flag gap is that large. Read split-1 first: if the gain sits in phase and rival (the call), put most B items on cost-aware calls and expected-value quotes (cutfn, qm2h follow-ups); if it sits in the belief pin, the gap is price information and items should go to quotes that buy pins and to anything fresh4 found. Any B result >= +0.3 over its base goes into the next port; 0.1 to 0.3 gets one tuning or stacking item; below that is dropped. From now measure B ideas on mix2 or lattice+thr as base, so gains add to what is won. (4) Budget: 164 items after this episode; engine confirmation of each new port costs 16 items for 4,096 seeds; keep 14-20 items an episode. WATCH FOR: three-arm engine items use q2/pb keys, not port; the Q2 result JSON is one object under the key qm-2; code_sha256 in results is sometimes the sha of the base64 text and sometimes of the tar, so check both; engine peak is about 50k over a port's pyrevm peak; briefs under 2,900 filled characters, no platform conditions, numbers not command text.

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   a4-eng3-a, item by itema4-eng3-b, item by itema4-port-mix2, item by itemb4-thr, item by itemb4-cutfn, item by itemb4-qm2h, item by itemb4-flag-split, item by itemb4-fresh4, item by item

5. Round 5a5-engine-audit2 of 2 backa5-mix09-qualify2 of 2 backa5-mix09-pilot2 of 2 backb5-probe2 of 2 backb5-conditioning2 of 2 backb5-fresh1 of 2 back

   Agent #1743 planned it.

   what a5-engine-audit was asked

   Track A: audit the engine measurement pipeline, independent copy {{copy}}, with one fresh 64-seed diagnostic block {{from}}..{{to}}. Engine: clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge at 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704. From checkout: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. Artifacts at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<id>: IB=afd5183e9ff3235334e041c00b0cd19079599a2c6464db95f8c1586712105557; Q2=f6f4c4cccbd3fd9b0d7a4c4c329011ba1c765a10cc192b1402434033bdd10402 (unwrap qm-2); PB=2ade1a24f75836479efeeaff574e452ff3ef5c23fd856c50bd2c1a4a10d78463. Decode code_zb64 (base64/zlib/tar; IB is Solidity text). Suspect result: https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/72016d95826056985a84530753c9f731ccacf9de4084d6f5be0a8770fde7db68. Episode 4 concerns: eng3-12003328 reports IB mean 182.69 and PB-Q2 +1.960 versus ordinary IB about 530 and PB-Q2 +0.301; eng3-12003072 reused validation gas; eng3-12004864 used a source-built engine with another lockfile. Do not certify these from their accepted status or guess the cause. Use competition/config.py build_config and BASELINE_VARIANCE, all BASELINE_SETTINGS unchanged. For absolute seed s use default_rng(s), draw mean size, arrival rate, sigma in _build_configs order and set seed=s. Check every field against _build_configs for indices 0..7 without running those seeds. Compare explicit configs with Rust defaults and check edge uses edges[submission]. Validate unchanged contracts. Run IB,Q2,PB each alone vs VanillaStrategy via amm_sim_rs.run_batch(X,VanillaStrategy,configs,8), same configs, only your assigned seeds, each arm once. Reset/capture Submission gas_stats per command. Never substitute validation gas. No command >480s; save progress in scratch; report partial pairs without filling/reusing seeds. On setup failure return blocked={step,error}; on slow/setup-failed seats finish a Python config/source audit instead of blocking on speed. Return key, config_checks, explicit first/last config and config SHA256, source/bytecode/wheel hashes, compiler settings, rows [seed,ib,q2,pb], n per arm, all three paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}, measured gas_stats including callback counts/gas sums, validate, valid (false on OOG/revert/peak>245000), diagnosis distinguishing proved from unknown, and a reusable canonical runner. No old engine seed may be rerun. One JSON <60000 bytes; numeric evidence, not raw command output. Bundle source/reproduction scripts only as code_zb64=base64(zlib(tar)), code_sha256=SHA256 of uncompressed tar; no tables/traces.

   what a5-mix09-qualify was asked

   Track A: freeze and qualify M09, independent copy {{copy}}. Solved: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved. Engine: clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge at 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704. From checkout: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. Fetch https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/199bcc1dff84094f0e56d82874be99989e082bdd398df1d241c5ec488e898a3e. code_sha256 hashes ASCII code_zb64; decode base64/zlib/tar to mix-2/. In Strategy.sol replace the sole `THR = 500000000000000000` with `THR = 900000000000000000`, no other source change. Source SHA256 must be a44cca4b0155ca3953f27ccb6b43ac8ee74b1cdc4f27022ee5fc51d8ab67ed5f. Keep merge_after=2, quote=0, floor=1e-5 and all Q2 tables. Adapt gen.py to regenerate exactly this source. Its bounded Python mix.py must use thr=0.9; do not use the unbounded mixture as parity target. Reproduce gates.py, then fee parity on every callback of replica seeds 10000..10019. Expand tables from the shipped spec/expand.py. Compare the frozen Python twin to fresh gauss soft=1 original qm on 60000..61023 with run.py and pair.py; also measure thr09 minus bounded thr05 there. No tuning or holdout performance run. Require max fee difference <=0.01 bps, pyrevm afterSwap peak <=195000 including intrinsic (engine headroom), initialize <=250000, 0 OOG/revert, runtime <=24576, <=32 slots, no assembly, amm-match validate of the delivered THR09 source. Run the reachable two-component long-gap forced case and stress; report separately. All commands <480s, segment/save in scratch. No engine seed consumed. If setup fails return blocked={step,error}; a slow or unavailable engine still permits the Python cost/parity-fixture work. Return key, complete, blocked, source_sha256, generator_match, paired_vs_gauss and paired_vs_thr05 {n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}, parity{runs,callbacks,max_fee_diff_bps}, gas{scope,peak,mean,calls,oog,reverts}, forced/stress results, validate, bytes_runtime, slots. Expected vs gauss about +0.7, flag a gain below +0.55 for diagnosis, never force it. One JSON <60000 bytes; numeric evidence, not raw command output. Bundle source/reproduction scripts only as code_zb64=base64(zlib(tar)), code_sha256=SHA256 of uncompressed tar; no tables/traces.

   what a5-mix09-pilot was asked

   Track A: one provisional M09 engine pilot on fresh seeds {{from}}..{{to}}, 64 seeds exclusive to this item. Engine: clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge at 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704. From checkout: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. Artifacts at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<id>: IB=afd5183e9ff3235334e041c00b0cd19079599a2c6464db95f8c1586712105557; PB=2ade1a24f75836479efeeaff574e452ff3ef5c23fd856c50bd2c1a4a10d78463; mixture=199bcc1dff84094f0e56d82874be99989e082bdd398df1d241c5ec488e898a3e. Decode code_zb64 (IB Solidity text; others base64/zlib/tar). In mix-2/Strategy.sol change only THR from 500000000000000000 to 900000000000000000; resulting source SHA256=a44cca4b0155ca3953f27ccb6b43ac8ee74b1cdc4f27022ee5fc51d8ab67ed5f. PB unchanged. Use competition/config.py build_config and BASELINE_VARIANCE, all BASELINE_SETTINGS unchanged. For absolute seed s use default_rng(s), draw mean size, arrival rate, sigma in _build_configs order and set seed=s. Check every field against _build_configs for indices 0..7 without running those seeds. Before consuming seeds verify source hash, compile with the pinned compiler and amm-match validate all three. The mixture had replica parity at both thresholds; this pilot checks engine behavior, and promotion also waits for independent M09 qualification. Run IB,PB,M09 each alone against VanillaStrategy with amm_sim_rs.run_batch(X,VanillaStrategy,configs,8), one 64-seed command per arm. Same exact configs for all arms; edges[submission] only. Measure/reset gas_stats on the actual Submission calls each command, not validation or an earlier result. Commands <480s; save scratch state. Never use other seeds, rerun an arm/seed, or fill missing values. If the seat cannot finish, return partial paired n; do Python source/config equivalence work with remaining time. Setup failure: blocked={step,error}; no platform inspection or speed gate. Return key, source/bytecode/wheel hashes, config_checks, first/last complete configs and config SHA256, arm{n,sum,sumsq,rows}, m09_minus_ib,m09_minus_pb,pb_minus_ib each paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}, gas_stats for each arm including call counts and gas sums, validate, valid=false on any OOG/revert/afterSwap peak>245000. Report callback faults even if edge looks good. This is a pilot, not a 4000-seed claim. One JSON <60000 bytes; numeric evidence, not raw command output. Bundle source/reproduction scripts only as code_zb64=base64(zlib(tar)), code_sha256=SHA256 of uncompressed tar; no tables/traces.

   what b5-probe was asked

   Track B: one information-seeking quote policy, independent copy {{copy}}. Solved: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved. Read Harness/Rules/Fleet; scripts run as python3 -I in that folder. Base lattice+thr09: https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/22819a1542e36a609ec3d02a160b4b7aaf345d26d7184ef6517abc35b85cfbfc, code_zb64 base64/zlib/tar contains thrpol.py and fast_thr.py. One blind Python policy: only afterSwap inputs; hidden training labels allowed offline, never policy state or scoring inputs. Tune only 62000..62127, confirm 62128..62255, freeze once, then run.py/pair.py once on 10000..12047 against ref/lattice_qm.json and the unchanged thr09 base. Check zero-change equivalence on tuning seeds first. Chunk all commands below 480s, save scratch progress. Fast helpers need callback/fee parity before scoring; stdlib Python remains usable, no speed gate. Budget under an hour; report actual partial n if necessary, never impute. The true flag in the belief alone buys +2.34 of +2.72 on 512 tuning runs; correcting phase/rival with blind belief cannot deliver that. Build a small one-step lookahead: after an ambiguous first trade, use its arb and retail price hypotheses to choose a side-specific quote perturbation that makes the NEXT observable callback distinguish them. Optimize expected edge plus expected posterior entropy reduction, using afterSwap-observable outcomes including elapsed time; use training-only simulator rollouts/quadrature offline and a cheap frozen rule online. This differs from globally tightening quotes or increasing kappa, both failed. Use at most four candidate settings; do not combine a new classifier, threshold or blend. Bound computation and test absence of probing exactly matches base. Ignore the old stalled twohyp worker; work independently. Return key, exact idea/settings, tuning and confirmation, holdout_vs_base and holdout_vs_lattice_qm each paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}, first-trade misread rate and callback RMS log-price error bps for both arms, blindness/equivalence checks, gas estimate with operations/slots and measured=false unless measured. One JSON <60000 bytes; numeric evidence, not raw command output. Bundle source/reproduction scripts only as code_zb64=base64(zlib(tar)), code_sha256=SHA256 of uncompressed tar; no tables/traces.

   what b5-conditioning was asked

   Track B: test only {{idea}}. Solved: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved. Read Harness/Rules/Fleet; scripts run as python3 -I in that folder. Base lattice+thr09: https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/22819a1542e36a609ec3d02a160b4b7aaf345d26d7184ef6517abc35b85cfbfc, code_zb64 base64/zlib/tar contains thrpol.py and fast_thr.py. One blind Python policy: only afterSwap inputs; hidden training labels allowed offline, never policy state or scoring inputs. Tune only 62000..62127, confirm 62128..62255, freeze once, then run.py/pair.py once on 10000..12047 against ref/lattice_qm.json and the unchanged thr09 base. Check zero-change equivalence on tuning seeds first. Chunk all commands below 480s, save scratch progress. Fast helpers need callback/fee parity before scoring; stdlib Python remains usable, no speed gate. Budget under an hour; report actual partial n if necessary, never impute. {{method}} Keep thr=0.9 and the table policy fixed; only change the specified likelihood conditioning. Normalize the event likelihood, check a no-update setting equals base, and validate likelihood direction on training data before tuning strength. Earlier scalar router reweighting lost badly; do not reuse it without deriving the observation event correctly. At most four settings. Return key, exact idea/settings, tuning and confirmation, holdout_vs_base and holdout_vs_lattice_qm each paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}, first-trade misread rate and callback RMS log-price error bps for both arms, blindness/equivalence checks, gas estimate with operations/slots and measured=false unless measured. One JSON <60000 bytes; numeric evidence, not raw command output. Bundle source/reproduction scripts only as code_zb64=base64(zlib(tar)), code_sha256=SHA256 of uncompressed tar; no tables/traces.

   what b5-fresh was asked

   Track B: one fresh independent idea, copy {{copy}}. Start from the question: how can afterSwap inputs buy better price information or reduce its economic cost? Solved: B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved; curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved. Read Harness/Rules/Fleet; scripts run as python3 -I in that folder. Base lattice+thr09: https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/22819a1542e36a609ec3d02a160b4b7aaf345d26d7184ef6517abc35b85cfbfc, code_zb64 base64/zlib/tar contains thrpol.py and fast_thr.py. One blind Python policy: only afterSwap inputs; hidden training labels allowed offline, never policy state or scoring inputs. Tune only 62000..62127, confirm 62128..62255, freeze once, then run.py/pair.py once on 10000..12047 against ref/lattice_qm.json and the unchanged thr09 base. Check zero-change equivalence on tuning seeds first. Chunk all commands below 480s, save scratch progress. Fast helpers need callback/fee parity before scoring; stdlib Python remains usable, no speed gate. Budget under an hour; report actual partial n if necessary, never impute. Skip the README idea/Open lists. The true flag in the belief alone is worth +2.34; no true flag is available online. Choose exactly one mechanism. Already exhausted: scalar pi thresholds (0.9 won), feature-dependent cuts, likelihood temperature, third-moment quote shifts, finer lattice, per-run sigma/rate, quote blends, generic feature classifiers, scalar router likelihoods and globally tighter quotes. Do not repeat those. Other new workers cover one-step entropy probes, same-step fill likelihood and silent-step no-fill likelihood; choose something else independently. Explain the causal mechanism and its distinctness before scoring. Limit tuning to four settings; freeze the best even if negative and report honestly. Return key, exact idea/settings, tuning and confirmation, holdout_vs_base and holdout_vs_lattice_qm each paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}, first-trade misread rate and callback RMS log-price error bps for both arms, blindness/equivalence checks, gas estimate with operations/slots and measured=false unless measured. One JSON <60000 bytes; numeric evidence, not raw command output. Bundle source/reproduction scripts only as code_zb64=base64(zlib(tar)), code_sha256=SHA256 of uncompressed tar; no tables/traces.

   the whole memo

   EPISODE 5 (2026-11-10). Read all19 results/state/schema and pinned README; fetched26 files, zero SHA mismatches. No requester notes/refusals. Launch12 research items (6A/6B): used76->88/240,152 items/15 episodes left. Six two-item batches avoid canaries. No leaderboard entry. finish=false: first place and a qualified4000-seed contract remain unproved. ENGINE AUDIT CHANGES THE EP4 PLAN. All eight new results' row counts, seed bounds, arm sums and paired sums/sumsq check within their 6-decimal row rounding. Acceptance is not behavioral validation. Do NOT blindly pool all accepted blocks: * a4-eng3-a/eng3-12003328 (artifact 72016d95826056985a84530753c9f731ccacf9de4084d6f5be0a8770fde7db68): n256, IB mean 182.691 vs ordinary ~530, Q2-IB +2.106 and PB-Q2 +1.960 vs ordinary +0.301. Quarantine the entire range 12003328..12003583 pending configuration/metric evidence. Exact cause unknown; do not call this a port breakthrough. * a4-eng3-a/eng3-12003072 (271766b8de54f0d5390f1612b11b8f0bfda3a978e4d8bf334e37e9e56b1b312f): scores plausible, but Q2/PB gas copied from validation (155745/167214), explicitly not these engine calls. Exclude from fully qualified totals; cannot repair old gas from a new run. * a4-eng3-b/eng3-12004864 (987b6d7a8e8c1b8dd0e687635df384ae98c59aa7c346a69eb35c47c1b8390c62): plausible scores/gas, source-built engine with different Cargo.lock, no wheel edge parity. Keep separate provenance cohort; matching Vanilla gas does not prove edge parity. * a4-eng3-a/eng3-12003840 returned IB 32 seeds, Q2/PB only 8 (12003840..847); count ONLY 8 pairs. Retire the rest of its reservation, never fill or rerun. CONSERVATIVE QUALIFIED COHORT: new ranges12003584..3839,12003840..3847,12004096..4863, n1032. Q2-IB sum3201.920648424977 sumsq12019.048667702511 mean3.1026363 se.0442637; PB-IB sum3512.5071280609563 sumsq13967.569184392274 mean3.4035922 se.0434902; PB-Q2 sum310.58647963597923 sumsq330.84560162416574 mean.3009559 se.0149364. Add ep3 Q2 n2048/sum6234.996342/sumsq23411.221253: Q2 cumulative n3080 sum9436.916990424977 sumsq35430.269920702514 mean3.0639341 se.0262130. Need >=920 MORE qualified pairs. Q2 remains standing source; PB promising on1032. Core peaks Q2 205010,PB215345; zero OOG/reverts,validate pass. PB agrees with replica. Even pooling all yields n3848, not4096. Adding borrowed-gas scores gives Q2 n3336 mean3.06739; adding source-build too gives n3592 mean3.05810, neither qualified. SOURCE IDENTITIES: URLs are https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<result SHA>. IB afd5183e9ff3235334e041c00b0cd19079599a2c6464db95f8c1586712105557; Q2 f6f4c4cccbd3fd9b0d7a4c4c329011ba1c765a10cc192b1402434033bdd10402 (unwrap qm-2; code tar SHA988ef957e0f6633583384005936a94cee2816b8202feadbc2a633ee318e50c1c); PB 2ade1a24f75836479efeeaff574e452ff3ef5c23fd856c50bd2c1a4a10d78463 (pb-1/Strategy.sol). MIXTURE PORT: both complete. Spare mix-1 result9c6947ad5bdaff7b7253cda8508d70d2273bd115210b6e89fb6564dee54b2f6e merges after1 silent cut; cost+.38458,peak178071. Select mix-2 result199bcc1dff84094f0e56d82874be99989e082bdd398df1d241c5ec488e898a3e: merge_after2,quote0,floor1e-5,runtime21984,slots12; cost+.38787257 se.01838 vs gauss on60000..61023; parity .5/.9 <=1.45e-8bps on20 runs each. Parity peak146477,forced147222,stress159900; zero faults. code_sha256 hashes BASE64 TEXT; payload base64/zlib/tar, mix-2/. Replace sole THR = 500000000000000000 with THR = 900000000000000000: M09 source SHA a44cca4b0155ca3953f27ccb6b43ac8ee74b1cdc4f27022ee5fc51d8ab67ed5f. Qualifier/pilot use this exact source independently; recheck THR09 validate/cost/generator. Never pool K1/K2. B FINDINGS. thr-mix2 (a2126d727c65d198a755a2b2f7fc1cc1dff272813fe716a46c71702734e37105): cut .9 wins +.3275223 se.01043 over unbounded mix05; +.7553763 vs gauss_qm and +.2604758 vs lattice_qm on2048. Misread .16378->.29089, RMSprice13.747->13.367bps. Thus the free constant change MUST transfer to A; replica prediction for bounded/compressed M09 is about +3.8..3.9 over IB, still far below +6.4. That artifact's code_zb64 is actually base64 of RAW TAR, without zlib; inspected successfully. Do not decode it blindly. thr-blend +.06025 only, drop. cutfn +.00022 se.00331 vs constant .9, drop; its normalized cost weights are not measured currency costs. qm2h endpoint consistency FAILED (16.05bps); +.242 vs gauss, -.253 vs lattice, 260MB action arrays: do not port or treat as validated. fresh4 temperature -.02046 se.00748 vs thr09; skew shift -.00542 se.0056: drop. Late fresh-1 branch-blend +.1336 vs lattice is superseded. Late compress-fit: 7007 bytes loses .1306 vs gauss, 11434 loses .0653; reserve only, current mixture fits so no new compression sweep. Its three holdout-tested candidates are not three independent confirmations. KEY DIAGNOSTIC split-1 (be8021bab12b3f38262bbb517c1058cd5777b690fab49c7852c5ef9c8fc3f8a3), 512 tuning seeds: true flag in belief alone +2.3425; phase alone +.2193; rival alone -.7898; all +2.7152. At cut.9 blind +.3151, true phase +.4361, true belief +2.462. Thus only ~.3-.45 is available from phase/rival changes alone; remaining ~2.3 is PRICE INFORMATION. Oracle is diagnostic, never executable evidence. New B items target this, not more threshold/temperature/skew sweeps. Lattice EVM remains closed (403k+); Python mixture/numba are the route to the contract. Existing lattice+thr09 helper artifact 22819a1542e36a609ec3d02a160b4b7aaf345d26d7184ef6517abc35b85cfbfc has thrpol.py/fast_thr.py; URL bytes verified. DECISIONS: a5-engine-audit two canonical config/gas pilots (IB,Q2,PB); a5-mix09-qualify two gate/cost copies; a5-mix09-pilot two provisional IB,PB,M09 pilots. B: b5-probe two information-quote implementations; b5-conditioning same-step retail and silent-step no-fill likelihoods, separately; b5-fresh two new ideas. Tune62000..62127,confirm62128..62255,freeze before holdout10000..12047. Gains>=.3 over current base feed A; inherited threshold gain is not new. Outputs<60000,briefs<2900 ASCII,numeric evidence/code,no host inspection. LEDGER: all engine seeds12000000..12005119 used or RETIRED, including invalid and missing portions; never reuse. Audit1=12005120..183, audit2=12005184..247; M09pilot1=12005248..311, pilot2=12005312..375. Next unreserved12005376. Each arm within a paired item uses the same assigned configs once. Under8min commands,64 seeds, no speed gates; slow seats return actual partial pairs and useful Python work. Setup failure records blocked{step,error}; no invented data. Canonical config is competition/config.py build_config with BASELINE_SETTINGS, BASELINE_VARIANCE and default_rng(absolute seed), draws mean-size/rate/sigma in that order. Testing builder equality at indices0..7 consumes no engine seeds. Scores are edges[submission], live gas_stats reset per command; use pinned wheel provenance, no source-build substitution without separate equivalence evidence. NEXT: read all12 new items plus b4-thr/thr-gauss. Cancel b1-ideas: its only remaining twohyp item has produced no result for four episodes and the bounded b5-probe replaces it. a1-compress already cancelled; no repeat cancellation. Keep b4-thr running, do not wait on it. Wake on six new batches or60min, no local timed wait. If audit/config/hash checks agree and M09 qualifier plus engine peak<=245000 pass, broaden fresh engine pairing in episode6. First close Q2's >=4000 actual qualified pairs (four256-seed items suffice even without pilots), then give the frozen winner its own4000-pair confirmation, with IB and best prior port as controls. Do not pool prototypes, bad provenance or estimated gas. If replica/engine gap differs by>.2, diagnose before widening. First place still needs ~2.5 more edge; keep B alive. Unresolved artifacts stay quarantined absent new direct evidence; a new good run cannot certify old missing measurements.

   1 step

   a5-engine-audit, item by itema5-mix09-qualify, item by itema5-mix09-pilot, item by itemb5-probe, item by itemb5-conditioning, item by itemb5-fresh, item by item

6. Round 6a6-close-q24 of 4 backa6-confirm-m094 of 4 backb6-joint1 of 1 backb6-action-values0 of 1 backb6-learned0 of 2 backb6-fresh0 of 2 back

   Agent #341 planned it.

   what a6-close-q2 was asked

   Track A: measure frozen M09, IB and {{control}}, each ALONE versus VanillaStrategy on your exclusive fresh engine seeds {{from}}..{{to}} (256). No entry to the board. Clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge at 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704. From checkout: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. Fetch JSON at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/db67c7a0e8fa98f87b069766df6e213890861b15f967695293f519ecc46eeeb6 (code_zb64 base64/zlib/tar: IB.sol,Q2.sol,restore_pb.py reconstructs PB.sol,canonical.py) and https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/063270cb0315aaded47d5cb3f437297bf8e9aac55e179fc4d26534a6d0e269d3 (same encoding; m09-2/Strategy.sol). Keep contracts byte-identical. M09 source SHA a44cca4b0155ca3953f27ccb6b43ac8ee74b1cdc4f27022ee5fc51d8ab67ed5f; runtime SHA e95f44d13169747859490d2f5fb627a55b4a9cb3c84dae0c95a6b37e0023e281. Adapt only runner to add M09/select arms and require explicit fresh --start for EVERY action. Use canonical.py configs: build_config/BASELINE_SETTINGS/BASELINE_VARIANCE, default_rng(absolute seed), draws size,rate,sigma. Compare every field with MatchRunner._build_configs at indices0..7 WITHOUT simulations. Solc0.8.24,viaIR,optimizer200,paris. Workspace downloaded wheel SHA must equal aedb68280aca34c110968f00148387c95885207913fb2cf19a1ab4c5cfd6887a; no source-build substitute. Four blocks of64; separate commands per arm, under470s; slow seats use32 and return actual partial pairs. run_batch(X,VanillaStrategy,configs,8), score edges['submission']; same configs for each arm. Pair only completed seed intersections. Preserve started markers; never retry a started seed/arm, including timeout, never fill missing scores. Reset gas immediately before each run; snapshot gas_stats() immediately after, including BOTH roles. Validate each unchanged source with amm-match validate. Result one JSON <60000 bytes: source/runtime/wheel hashes; builder checks; config hash encoding and first/last configs; per-arm n,sum,sumsq and [seed,edge] rows; paired M09-IB,control-IB,M09-control each {n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}; each command's gas_stats, elapsed, missing ranges, validate and valid. valid=false on any callback fault or afterSwap peak>245000; never borrow validation gas. Include runner code_zb64 and SHA256 of uncompressed tar (no contracts/tables/traces). Setup failure: blocked={step,error}; do not block on speed or inspect the host.

   what a6-confirm-m09 was asked

   Track A: measure frozen M09, IB and {{control}}, each ALONE versus VanillaStrategy on your exclusive fresh engine seeds {{from}}..{{to}} (256). No entry to the board. Clone https://github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge at 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704. From checkout: mkdir -p scratch && curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/main/research/setup.sh -o scratch/setup.sh && sh scratch/setup.sh; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. Fetch JSON at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/db67c7a0e8fa98f87b069766df6e213890861b15f967695293f519ecc46eeeb6 (code_zb64 base64/zlib/tar: IB.sol,Q2.sol,restore_pb.py reconstructs PB.sol,canonical.py) and https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/063270cb0315aaded47d5cb3f437297bf8e9aac55e179fc4d26534a6d0e269d3 (same encoding; m09-2/Strategy.sol). Keep contracts byte-identical. M09 source SHA a44cca4b0155ca3953f27ccb6b43ac8ee74b1cdc4f27022ee5fc51d8ab67ed5f; runtime SHA e95f44d13169747859490d2f5fb627a55b4a9cb3c84dae0c95a6b37e0023e281. Adapt only runner to add M09/select arms and require explicit fresh --start for EVERY action. Use canonical.py configs: build_config/BASELINE_SETTINGS/BASELINE_VARIANCE, default_rng(absolute seed), draws size,rate,sigma. Compare every field with MatchRunner._build_configs at indices0..7 WITHOUT simulations. Solc0.8.24,viaIR,optimizer200,paris. Workspace downloaded wheel SHA must equal aedb68280aca34c110968f00148387c95885207913fb2cf19a1ab4c5cfd6887a; no source-build substitute. Four blocks of64; separate commands per arm, under470s; slow seats use32 and return actual partial pairs. run_batch(X,VanillaStrategy,configs,8), score edges['submission']; same configs for each arm. Pair only completed seed intersections. Preserve started markers; never retry a started seed/arm, including timeout, never fill missing scores. Reset gas immediately before each run; snapshot gas_stats() immediately after, including BOTH roles. Validate each unchanged source with amm-match validate. Result one JSON <60000 bytes: source/runtime/wheel hashes; builder checks; config hash encoding and first/last configs; per-arm n,sum,sumsq and [seed,edge] rows; paired M09-IB,control-IB,M09-control each {n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}; each command's gas_stats, elapsed, missing ranges, validate and valid. valid=false on any callback fault or afterSwap peak>245000; never borrow validation gas. Include runner code_zb64 and SHA256 of uncompressed tar (no contracts/tables/traces). Setup failure: blocked={step,error}; do not block on speed or inspect the host.

   what b6-joint was asked

   Track B, one blind Python policy, no engine seeds. Fetch B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved using curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved. Read Harness/Rules/Fleet. Base: unchanged thrpol:ThrLattice thr=0.9 qm=qm_k1e-5.json. Get thrpol.py from https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/c9d678abb0ed0ee3a31b13a8203b6ee993896db0b6a3875c5c4f52a369bf0434 code_zb64 (base64/zlib/tar); ignore its rival-policy modification. Its base file SHA is 663965707d4f20f81ab0ade8ed510742a330605fd9e889d426db1d920abc8958. Test persistent JOINT price/rival belief. Carry a small set of price hypotheses with their own rival spots across callbacks; update weights with the exact first-fill router likelihood (all-own and split branches, size Jacobian and positive-fill normalization), then keep the existing quote tables and thr0.9 action rule. Same-step independent rival marginalization was flat; this item tests persistent correlation and first-trade selection, not another likelihood-strength sweep. Bound branches and merge deterministically. Unit-check likelihood normalization/inverse routing and distinguish arb atoms from retail densities. No oracle state carried online. Deliver one measured candidate; report branch/merge approximation cost. Keep the six-input afterSwap interface; no seed, hidden flag/price/rival/run parameters or future callback online. Labels may train offline only. Prove zero-change equivalence and hidden-input independence. Tune only63000..63255, at most4 settings; select once, freeze before confirmation63256..63511 and before holdout10000..12047. Score the frozen policy ONCE with unchanged run.py through Blind; pair.py against fresh unchanged base and ref/lattice_qm.json. Disable needs_flag; base's inherited +0.32289 vs lattice is not new gain. No command>470s; segment/checkpoint under scratch; plain-Python fallback, optional callback-parity-tested acceleration, no speed gates. Report actual completed n, never impute. Return JSON <60000 bytes: mechanism, frozen settings, tuning/confirmation and both holdout paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}; first-trade misread and callback price RMS for both arms; checks/limitations, incremental operations/slots and labeled gas estimate; reproducible code_zb64 plus SHA256 of uncompressed tar, no tables/traces. Gain>=0.3 over unchanged base is the promotion bar. Report honest negative/partial results; no raw command output or machine inspection.

   what b6-action-values was asked

   Track B, one blind Python policy, no engine seeds. Fetch B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved using curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved. Read Harness/Rules/Fleet. Base: unchanged thrpol:ThrLattice thr=0.9 qm=qm_k1e-5.json. Get thrpol.py from https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/c9d678abb0ed0ee3a31b13a8203b6ee993896db0b6a3875c5c4f52a369bf0434 code_zb64 (base64/zlib/tar); ignore its rival-policy modification. Its base file SHA is 663965707d4f20f81ab0ade8ed510742a330605fd9e889d426db1d920abc8958. Repair and test posterior-integrated ACTION VALUES. Previous qm2h failed delta-posterior endpoint consistency by16.05bps and is unusable. Build from dp.py/qmdp.py saved values; integrate candidate ask/bid action values over the full price posterior using branch-correct phase/rival states. Check delta-price endpoints reproduce the corresponding original action values/argmax and fee conversion to <=0.01bps (explain genuine ties); pi=0/1 cases must pass before scoring. Retain base if checks fail. One candidate, unchanged belief update. DP_SAVEVN and resumable DP_STATE, bounded sweeps, no command>470s. Return compact source to regenerate values, not value arrays. Keep the six-input afterSwap interface; no seed, hidden flag/price/rival/run parameters or future callback online. Labels may train offline only. Prove zero-change equivalence and hidden-input independence. Tune only63000..63255, at most4 settings; select once, freeze before confirmation63256..63511 and before holdout10000..12047. Score the frozen policy ONCE with unchanged run.py through Blind; pair.py against fresh unchanged base and ref/lattice_qm.json. Disable needs_flag; base's inherited +0.32289 vs lattice is not new gain. No command>470s; segment/checkpoint under scratch; plain-Python fallback, optional callback-parity-tested acceleration, no speed gates. Report actual completed n, never impute. Return JSON <60000 bytes: mechanism, frozen settings, tuning/confirmation and both holdout paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}; first-trade misread and callback price RMS for both arms; checks/limitations, incremental operations/slots and labeled gas estimate; reproducible code_zb64 plus SHA256 of uncompressed tar, no tables/traces. Gain>=0.3 over unchanged base is the promotion bar. Report honest negative/partial results; no raw command output or machine inspection.

   what b6-learned was asked

   Track B, one blind Python policy, no engine seeds. Fetch B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved using curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved. Read Harness/Rules/Fleet. Base: unchanged thrpol:ThrLattice thr=0.9 qm=qm_k1e-5.json. Get thrpol.py from https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/c9d678abb0ed0ee3a31b13a8203b6ee993896db0b6a3875c5c4f52a369bf0434 code_zb64 (base64/zlib/tar); ignore its rival-policy modification. Its base file SHA is 663965707d4f20f81ab0ade8ed510742a330605fd9e889d426db1d920abc8958. Test only {{mechanism}}. Existing calibrated classifiers on instantaneous filter features added ~0.02; entropy probes lost ~0.67 despite better RMS. This item must optimize the stated target with a new observable history or value signal, not repeat those classifiers/probes. Use compact fixed inference and document every online feature's causal origin. Labels and continuation forks stay in offline training; reset model state for every run. Keep tables and threshold0.9 fixed. Keep the six-input afterSwap interface; no seed, hidden flag/price/rival/run parameters or future callback online. Labels may train offline only. Prove zero-change equivalence and hidden-input independence. Tune only63000..63255, at most4 settings; select once, freeze before confirmation63256..63511 and before holdout10000..12047. Score the frozen policy ONCE with unchanged run.py through Blind; pair.py against fresh unchanged base and ref/lattice_qm.json. Disable needs_flag; base's inherited +0.32289 vs lattice is not new gain. No command>470s; segment/checkpoint under scratch; plain-Python fallback, optional callback-parity-tested acceleration, no speed gates. Report actual completed n, never impute. Return JSON <60000 bytes: mechanism, frozen settings, tuning/confirmation and both holdout paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}; first-trade misread and callback price RMS for both arms; checks/limitations, incremental operations/slots and labeled gas estimate; reproducible code_zb64 plus SHA256 of uncompressed tar, no tables/traces. Gain>=0.3 over unchanged base is the promotion bar. Report honest negative/partial results; no raw command output or machine inspection.

   what b6-fresh was asked

   Track B, one blind Python policy, no engine seeds. Fetch B=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gtmcknight/amm-sim/e65314f88de945f6d055bfc2aab01c482ab6570e/research/solved using curl -LsSf $B/fetch.sh -o fetch.sh && sh fetch.sh $B scratch/solved. Read Harness/Rules/Fleet. Base: unchanged thrpol:ThrLattice thr=0.9 qm=qm_k1e-5.json. Get thrpol.py from https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/c9d678abb0ed0ee3a31b13a8203b6ee993896db0b6a3875c5c4f52a369bf0434 code_zb64 (base64/zlib/tar); ignore its rival-policy modification. Its base file SHA is 663965707d4f20f81ab0ade8ed510742a330605fd9e889d426db1d920abc8958. Fresh independent idea {{copy}} of2. Skip the README's five suggested ideas and start from: what observable information or decision rule could recover ~2.5 edge beyond today's best? Choose ONE mechanism; do not combine searches. Exclude already tried: finer filter lattice, threshold/temperature/skew sweeps, branch blending, rival projection, per-run scalar adaptation, static classifier, midpoint/entropy quote probes, independent same-step fill likelihood, silent-step no-fill likelihood. Other new items handle persistent joint price/rival inference, posterior action-value integration, compact learned history and continuation-value residuals: pick something distinct. Explain why its signal or objective differs; no claim that improving RMS alone improves edge. Keep the six-input afterSwap interface; no seed, hidden flag/price/rival/run parameters or future callback online. Labels may train offline only. Prove zero-change equivalence and hidden-input independence. Tune only63000..63255, at most4 settings; select once, freeze before confirmation63256..63511 and before holdout10000..12047. Score the frozen policy ONCE with unchanged run.py through Blind; pair.py against fresh unchanged base and ref/lattice_qm.json. Disable needs_flag; base's inherited +0.32289 vs lattice is not new gain. No command>470s; segment/checkpoint under scratch; plain-Python fallback, optional callback-parity-tested acceleration, no speed gates. Report actual completed n, never impute. Return JSON <60000 bytes: mechanism, frozen settings, tuning/confirmation and both holdout paired{n,mean_diff,se,sum,sumsq,worst5}; first-trade misread and callback price RMS for both arms; checks/limitations, incremental operations/slots and labeled gas estimate; reproducible code_zb64 plus SHA256 of uncompressed tar, no tables/traces. Gain>=0.3 over unchanged base is the promotion bar. Report honest negative/partial results; no raw command output or machine inspection.

   the whole memo

   EPISODE 6 (2026-11-10). Read all10 results, goal state/schema and pinned README; fetched26 files, zero SHA mismatches. No requester notes/refusals. Checked input/code tar hashes and both M09 sources. Recomputed all4 engine blocks' pairs from rows (pilot1 rounded6 decimals); sum/sumsq/SE/counts agree. These check reports, not independent engine reruns. Spawn14 research items (8A/6B): used88->102/240,138 items left,14 episodes after this. finish=false; no board entry. AUDIT: a5-engine-audit/audit-1 and audit-2 each completed64 fresh seeds, same frozen IB/Q2/PB hashes, canonical config equality96/96, released wheel, live per-command gas, validate pass, zero faults. This supports expansion. cfmm retains old fees on callback errors: a completed match does NOT prove callback safety; require gas fault counters. Earlier suspect ranges stay excluded: eng3-12003328..12003583 unexplained IB mean182.69; eng3-12003072..12003327 borrowed validation gas; eng3-12004864..12005119 different source-build cohort, no equivalence evidence. Never restore old blocks from new good runs. eng3-12003840..12004095 yielded only8 common pairs (12003840..847); remaining seeds retired. QUALIFIED CUMULATIVE STATS (n,sum,sumsq; sample-variance SE): Q2-IB after audits =3208,9794.414444125043,36660.24569269944 => mean3.0531217095 se.0256271825; needs792 more pairs. PB-IB after audits AND pilots =1288,4355.55500214937,17278.433734417038 =>3.3816420824 se.0392175794. Prior Q2 cohort was n3080,sum9436.916990424977,sumsq35430.269920702514; new128 audit pairs add357.497453700066/1229.975771996929. No duplicate seeds or prototype pooling. New core peaks Q2<=205010 historically; PB now215827. Every included block reports zero callback faults and successful validation. M09 FROZEN/PASS: both a5-mix09-qualify copies agree exactly: bounded mix-2, THR.9, merge_after2,silent cap12,quote0,floor1e-5; original Q2/PB compressed tables. Cost60000..61023 vs fresh gauss_qm +.7229852592 se.0199588982; over identical THR.5 +.3351126888 se.0144677605. These duplicate evaluations are NOT 2048 independent samples. Generator byte equality; parity216453 callbacks on20 replica runs10000..10019 max2.72139e-9bps. Runtime21984,12 slots; parity pyrevm peak146477,stress159900; initialize<=229720. Independent forced cases pi~.9 and pi~.5 after13 silent steps clean. Validate passes. Use qualifier2 archive, not an ad hoc patch. M09 engine pilots12005248..12005375: n128 M09-IB sum495.19437512825016 sumsq2199.834158678719 mean3.8687060557 se.1321928268; M09-PB sum57.05035996776991 sumsq66.51562602032715 mean.4457059372 se.0502747996. Peak afterSwap202118,initialize229594;0 faults; source/runtime match qualifier. Replica prediction3.769+.723-.59=3.902, difference-.033 (inside.2). This qualifies broadening, NOT the4000-pair bar or first place. Gap to +6.4 remains~2.53. ARTIFACTS: all ids below are result SHA, served at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<id>; code_zb64=base64/zlib/tar for these verified bundles. Audit1 db67c7a0e8fa98f87b069766df6e213890861b15f967695293f519ecc46eeeb6 holds IB.sol,Q2.sol,PB.lines.json,restore_pb.py,canonical.py; restored PB hash asserted. Audit2 21ae4f6fd14da860594e6f6000c3e92c160c3c5688ed0abab5fd48c4a6165bb7 is a compact runner spare. M09 qualifier2 063270cb0315aaded47d5cb3f437297bf8e9aac55e179fc4d26534a6d0e269d3 holds m09-2/Strategy.sol, generator, spec, Python twin, parity/stress tooling (tarSHA974c242b4c8d250bdd33d2de9e842cdcc2b517e715f665a32c306cc72c002e73). Spare qualifier1 08be414d0c6b37c5345f07565fa02e6fbf5818f65bd305585ed19f37b236575f, mix-2-thr09/. Pilots c5c324fdc79afe15b2917f5292886cf0912f7ee5b13be7bf10ef5753d0bb7402 and c65996d58d5f686943b5f394d2d02aee8850f4a9098eff336ca71a9a1a74e50c. SOURCE HASHES: M09 a44cca4b0155ca3953f27ccb6b43ac8ee74b1cdc4f27022ee5fc51d8ab67ed5f; runtime e95f44d13169747859490d2f5fb627a55b4a9cb3c84dae0c95a6b37e0023e281. Q2 source2c471f0132b0f06aae83b7b2c8622083c9d8cb7b3d5e75719dd362f5b36bb259; PB source5123bb39594add4ad9a32f376ff7aa89c13428b82ea324ae4d80c474e3162d95; IB source301941829a44bb60977bb28181a5e4bfa6544f3696763f987054789b2611d686. Compiler0.8.24/viaIR/opt200/paris. WheelSHAaedb68280aca34c110968f00148387c95885207913fb2cf19a1ab4c5cfd6887a; nativeff88b6353c2aad7342f0a26194f7347e78b9c3b38d683a7449006d423978cd14. No source-build substitution. Canonical configs via build_config, default_rng(absolute seed), size/rate/sigma draw order, all baseline fields unchanged. Config hashes need specified serialization; different seed ranges/encodings will differ. B RESULTS: all gains below versus unchanged lattice+thr.9, NOT original lattice. probe1 -.67251268 se.01031991; probe2 -.66801957 se.01065438 (both2048). Their price RMS improved13.277->12.95/12.84 but edge worsened: stop these midpoint/entropy probes. Same-step router likelihood with independent rival marginalization -.00083727 se.00071879 (2048), drop. Fresh5 rival posterior projection +.01778940 se.00525324 (2048), far below promotion; its +.34068 versus lattice includes inherited +.32289 threshold gain. No new B winner. Previous true-flag ablation located~2.34 in belief pin, phase only~.22; neither a better misread rate nor RMS alone is the objective. qmdp/action-value idea remains untested correctly: previous qm2h endpoints wrong16.05bps. Clean reusable base: fresh5 artifact c9d678abb0ed0ee3a31b13a8203b6ee993896db0b6a3875c5c4f52a369bf0434 contains unchanged thrpol.py (SHA663965707d4f20f81ab0ade8ed510742a330605fd9e889d426db1d920abc8958), optional callback helper and reproduction scripts. This archive hash checked; original threshold artifact's declared tar hash was wrong. Use thrpol only, not the tiny-gain rival modification. DECISIONS: a6-close-q2 four256-seed three-arm items IB,Q2,M09; a6-confirm-m09 four256-seed items IB,PB,M09. All source-frozen, live gas, compact rows/config/provenance, adapted runner returned. If complete, Q2 n4232 closes Track A and M09 n2176 prepares final confirmation. B six items: persistent joint price/rival belief with first-fill likelihood; repair posterior action-value endpoints before scoring; compact recurrent price-innovation correction; continuation-edge-trained fee residual; two independent fresh ideas explicitly skipping README list/tried methods/current tasks. One mechanism per item, <=4 settings, zero-change/blindness checks, tune63000..63255,freeze then confirm63256..63511, single scored holdout10000..12047 versus unchanged base AND lattice_qm. Incremental +.3 goes to next A port. Negative/partial results accepted honestly. LEDGER: all engine12000000..12005375 used or retired, including excluded/incomplete allocations. NEW a6-close-q2 ranges12005376..5631,12005632..5887,12005888..6143,12006144..6399; a6-confirm-m09 ranges12006400..6655,12006656..6911,12006912..7167,12007168..7423. Next free12007424. Each arm once on identical config within item; no replay after timeout.64-seed commands (32 if slow),470s cap, never impute. Replica63000..63511 intentionally shared across independent ideas for paired evaluation, not engine seeds. NEXT: audit new hashes/configs/live gas and recalc pairs before pooling. Add ONLY qualified blocks to above totals; if Q2 n>=4000 and mean>=2.7, record that milestone without claiming first. If frozen M09 mean holds within.2 of3.90 and peak<=245000/zero faults, allocate8 more256-seed paired items from12007424 onward in episode7, reaching4224 if all complete; give each candidate its own count. If gap/gas fails, diagnose before widening. Keep B exploring remaining~2.5; port only gains incremental to current base. Read outstanding b4-thr/thr-gauss,b5-conditioning/silent-step,b5-fresh/fresh5-2; they are still running and not dependencies. No new cancellations; old a1-compress/b1-ideas already cancelled. Wake when6 new batches settle or60min. All14 new results plus3 outstanding requested explicitly, below30. No local timed waiting, no publication.

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   a6-close-q2, item by itema6-confirm-m09, item by itemb6-joint, item by itemb6-action-values, item by itemb6-learned, item by itemb6-fresh, item by item

7. Working7 agents, 3 silent for over 10 min
   1. values-1Agent #705Holdout progress: 384 of 2,048 seeds completed in both arms, with zero paired difference. The +0.3332 versus lattice remains inherited base performance. I’m continuing with the same frozen settings and recording each completed block.·Tinkering…

      1. The worst endpoint case has 33 tied action indices, but they all map to one physical quote because the bid fee clamps to zero. That does not explain the ask discrepancy. Both Python execution paths pass the callback checks. I’m now checking a diffusion-only acceleration against the unchanged base on 20 full tuning runs before using it for the remaining fallback measurements. 10m ago
      2. The first 128 fallback tuning seeds match the fresh unchanged base exactly: paired gain 0. The source archive now includes the rejected integration, endpoint tests, and value-regeneration recipe. The remaining measurements will document the retained fallback; any gain it has over the lattice reference is inherited from the base. 8m ago
      3. The diffusion acceleration is bit-exact across 210,961 callbacks from 20 full tuning runs: fees, all posterior cells, and persistent state match the original base. I’m using it for the remaining fallback measurements. The scoring harness, classifier, belief update, and fee rules remain unchanged. 6m ago
      4. All 256 tuning seeds are complete, with an exact zero paired difference between the fallback and unchanged base. Confirmation and holdout runs are underway. The result file already records the endpoint failure and regeneration code; I’ll update its statistics from completed rows only. 5m ago
      5. Confirmation is complete on all 256 seeds, again with an exact zero paired difference. The first 128 holdout seeds also match the base exactly. Their +0.3226 versus the lattice reference is the base’s inherited advantage, not a gain from the rejected candidate. 3m ago
      6. Holdout progress: 384 of 2,048 seeds completed in both arms, with zero paired difference. The +0.3332 versus lattice remains inherited base performance. I’m continuing with the same frozen settings and recording each completed block. just now
   2. history-priceAgent #81rate limit cleared·Simmering…

      1. SHA matches. Now read thrpol.py, latt.py, and fast_rival.py header. 30m ago
      2. rate limit cleared 29m ago
      3. Building the history-feature policy and offline trainer now. 28m ago
      4. Training the weights on the tuning seeds. 25m ago
      5. Selected H strength=1 (frozen). Running confirmation. 9m ago
      6. rate limit cleared 2m ago
   3. value-residualAgent #285Created result.json and sources.json. Completed 2,048 holdout pairs: **−0.0623 EDGE versus base**, SE 0.0067. No promotion recommended. JSON size, archive SHA256, paired statistics, callback parity, and source quotes validated.·Checking its work…

      1. All 2,048 holdout seeds are complete for both arms, with no reruns or imputed results. I’m now aggregating the two paired comparisons and validating the final JSON and embedded archive. 5m ago
      2. Created result.json and sources.json. Completed 2,048 holdout pairs: **−0.0623 EDGE versus base**, SE 0.0067. No promotion recommended. JSON size, archive SHA256, paired statistics, callback parity, and source quotes validated. 4m ago
      3. formatting 4m ago
      4. running the local build 4m ago
      5. checking source bundle size before upload 4m ago
      6. reading the cited sources again 4m ago
   4. 1Agent #1879Candidate holdout done (2048). Now the fresh unchanged base on the same seeds.·Orchestrating…

      1. q=0 (always commit) costs -2.93; running the remaining three settings (q=0.7, 0.9, 0.97). 24m ago
      2. rate limit cleared 24m ago
      3. Selected q=0.9 (+0.029 se 0.016 on tuning) and froze it. Next: confirmation. 20m ago
      4. rate limit cleared 20m ago
      5. Confirmation +0.019 se 0.015 (same sign as tuning). Now the one-time holdout, in 1024-seed chunks per arm. 17m ago
      6. Candidate holdout done (2048). Now the fresh unchanged base on the same seeds. 5m ago
   5. 2Agent #339256 seeds took 371s (parallel, multi-core). Now run the candidate.18m ago

      1. claude reports claude-sonnet-5 30m ago
      2. rate limit cleared 30m ago
      3. Now let me write a quick offline calibration script to fit the size distributions for arb vs retail, using diagnostic seeds (not tuning/holdout ranges). 28m ago
      4. I need to use test/scratch/ within the repo instead, which is allowed. 27m ago
      5. Now let's run the base and candidate on tuning seeds 63000..63255. 27m ago
      6. 256 seeds took 371s (parallel, multi-core). Now run the candidate. 18m ago
   6. compress-knotsAgent #943Created and validated result.json and sources.json. Best: 33 knots, 110,418 estimated bytes. Holdout loss: 0.1532 ± 0.0093 SE over 2,048 seeds—passes. Exact sanity reproduction failed; discrepancies are documented.21m ago

      1. Full holdout scoring is complete. The 33-knot set passes at −0.1532 edge (SE 0.0093) across all 2,048 seeds. The 41-knot set also passes at −0.0742; the 31-knot set fails at −0.2648. I’m finishing output validation, with the exact-sanity failure documented. 21m ago
      2. Created and validated result.json and sources.json. Best: 33 knots, 110,418 estimated bytes. Holdout loss: 0.1532 ± 0.0093 SE over 2,048 seeds—passes. Exact sanity reproduction failed; discrepancies are documented. 21m ago
      3. formatting 21m ago
      4. running the local build 21m ago
      5. checking source bundle size before upload 21m ago
      6. reading the cited sources again 21m ago
   7. fresh5-2Agent #366Created result.json and sources.json. Across 2,048 holdout seeds: **+0.0177 over thr09** (SE 0.0053), below the +0.3 transfer bar. Parity, blindness, archive checksum, and all 12 source-quote checks passed. The upstream checksum discrepancy is documented.84m ago

      1. Packaging found one provenance issue: the supplied thr09 artifact’s declared archive checksum does not match its decompressed tar. I’ve recorded both hashes in the result. The base files used in the experiment match that artifact byte for byte, and the new source bundle has its own directly computed checksum. 1h ago
      2. Created result.json and sources.json. Across 2,048 holdout seeds: **+0.0177 over thr09** (SE 0.0053), below the +0.3 transfer bar. Parity, blindness, archive checksum, and all 12 source-quote checks passed. The upstream checksum discrepancy is documented. 1h ago
      3. formatting 1h ago
      4. running the local build 1h ago
      5. checking source bundle size before upload 1h ago
      6. reading the cited sources again 1h ago

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8. NextRound 7 plans what comes after, then the write-up.
9. Publishedafter verification

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