{ "notes": "Episode 8/12. Orchestration only: nothing entered, deployed or submitted. Read goal.json, skill + reference, all 14 handed results (input digests match). No refusals, no wakes. DECISION: finish=true, nothing spawned, the four batches with an item still running are stopped. Items 77 of 160 used, 83 unspent. Artifact URL = https://api.imdnotdead.fun/artifacts/.\n\nLIMIT OF THIS EPISODE'S CHECKS: earlier episodes recomputed every paired statistic from the per-seed rows. This machine's task guard refused the command that decodes rows, and I did not work around it. For r1..r4 and c14 I used each item's own n, sum, sumsq, recomputed mean and se from them (they agree with what each reports), and checked hashes, gas and failure counters. Their seed ranges are as the items state them (worst5 seeds of r2, r3, r4 lie in range; r1 lists no seeds). WRITE-UP: recompute r1..r4 from rows where the machine allows it; if not, say reported sums were used for those 1024 seeds.\n\nCANDIDATE (frozen since ep5): u1-give copy-b = C0 + bounded-bitmath isArb and the odds rule (never a pin on a hit alone) + lookup + QPL1 u1 tables + constant rival pull .35. Artifact fd2f147e94f3523e4c4f91e43dc98b88e9ce8ef1060d2939367445711154a16a (batch e04-a-u1-give, item copy-b), code_zb64 source sha 99d031f41074ea872c78fa7dec5db33d9f20f3251e29bdbb4682c92791334b72, runtime 21055 B, sha b6f3c2c2a78f7f5676d16fa8f78ee9ea43fda4e16f957aa3e1eed2bfe15b1d05, 3521 B free, 6 slots, no assembly, validates. Gates (ep5): 11856/11856 vectors, closed loop 90802 callbacks max 4.58e-7 bps against the integer shadow, fees never on the rival's 30 bps. C0: artifact 8a6e303b662e1a5ea9bb47f31acedd3988ef65b3ddb66d074517aa59ad41ca40, source c68887cff61180e12ba2b1ceb333edf76a830f91f63b5d775a8806fb9ec08aca, runtime 20605 B, sha 79c8d6c305ec6dfc29770b27cfb15b6cbd57b1fb01a23309cf8c131ca5c70189.\n\nPRIMARY RESULT, as predeclared in ep7 (every complete valid item of c01..c16 and r1..r4, pooled by n, sum, sumsq, none dropped for its value): 16 items x 256 = 4096 fresh engine seeds, each arm alone against VanillaStrategy, amm-challenge 6b6921f8, unpatched wheel aedb6828..., setup.sh dc7fa6a1..., same source and runtime hashes in all 16. Items: c01..c09, c11, c12, c13 (ep7: n3072 sum 10226.61591195892 sumsq 37366.5336297763) + r1..r4 (n1024 mean 3.412632 se .031290 sum 3494.535637753835 sumsq 12951.16095700763). candidate - C0: n 4096, mean 3.34989051506659, se .016110325843681987, sum 13721.151549712753, sumsq 50317.69458678394; 95% interval 3.318..3.381. worst5 (d, seed), unchanged from ep7 since no r item goes below .31: -3.957 14005601; -3.153 14006041; -.160 14005461; .175 14007655; .261 14006578. Tails kept.\nr items (digest; n256 each): r1 41fef3ac6c13e589b53470704fc04e413d4ae94ffd9051aea126efbdc9eb3671 mean 3.433102 se .066086 sum 878.8741277051711 sumsq 3302.3683009728466, seeds 14008744..14008999; r2 dbc5f44ea18abd780024f9e166257e3a3e5e3216e04445b19a3d39c8e197e2f3 3.394910 se .060482 sum 869.0970753846137 sumsq 3189.3088249982584, 14009000..14009255; r3 8d4cd55e0b4ed75c0d25bd92785dd986f0e4910f67a34100eb7177d2d2094c89 3.379951 se .065064 sum 865.267571071347 sumsq 3200.91078348157, 14009256..14009511 (one unsaved C0 block rerun once, as the brief allowed); r4 5d74385cf880d54c355c13a891c2b6278185b427c6f34bbd7eacb015cb73ec6a 3.442566 se .058663 sum 881.2968635927033 sumsq 3258.573047554956, 14009512..14009767.\nGAS AND FAILURES: 0 OutOfGas, revert, halt, tx-error, bad-return in every arm of every item. Submission afterSwap peak over the 4096: candidate 209159 (c09), C0 209677 (r3); limit 245000, 35.8k free. Over every run of this source: 209315 (selection cohort). Mean per call 131k.\nPLANE SOURCE FLAGS (no reason given; hashes and figures consistent; not claimed cleared): c06 and r1. Without them: n3584 mean 3.344118 se .017143 sum 11985.317361640182 sumsq 43854.022492083066. Conclusion unchanged.\nNOT IN THE PRIMARY: c14 (cb21620a..., 14007976..14008231) valid but incomplete: 96 paired seeds 14007976..14008071 on a slow machine, mean 3.431324 se .078416 sum 329.40714435088034 sumsq 1186.3826633765639, peak 208002, 0 failures. c15 (297addf6...) blocked: compiling took the machine's time, no rows. c10, c16 blocked (ep7). SECONDARY, labelled as such: with c14's 96: n4192 mean 3.351755 se .015844. With the selection cohort (g1, g3..g8, n1792 mean 3.353575 se .024639; these seeds chose u1-give over u1): n5888 mean 3.351012 se .013483. Unflagged fresh + unflagged selection: n4864 mean 3.346006 se .014674. Every pool says the same.\n\nAGAINST THE BOARD (objective: 1st 528.42 = C0 + 3.48, 5th 528.10 = C0 + 3.16; tell README 2026-11-10 02:00Z: 528.42 528.40 528.26 528.21 528.10 526.78 525.38, this network 524.94): 524.94 + 3.350 = 528.290, interval 528.258..528.321. An estimate, not a rank: the goal enters nothing and board scores are on the board's own seeds. Above 5th by .190 (11.8 se), above 4th by .080 (5.0 se), above 3rd by .030 (1.9 se: level with it), under 2nd by .110 (6.8 se), under 1st by .130 (8.1 se). FIRST IS NOT REACHED. Path of the gap to C0: tell alone +3.19 (min-lookup, n1536), u1 tables +.097 se .009, pull +.087 se .007.\n\nTRACK C, last read (replica holdout 10000..12047; BASE = the candidate's policy on qm tables, +.0886 se .0071 over tell_qm):\n- quotient-on-base (88712dac...): router-split test on callbacks not read as arbitrage, rival set to the marginal-price candidate on a hit: +.0443 se .0039 over BASE (+.1329 se .0083 over tell_qm). The only positive lever left, under the objective's 0.2 bar. Mean 80, worst 189 emulated binary64 operations per tested callback.\n- e07-a-split-test copy-b (20c5ebb2...): Solidity isSplit matches quotient.py on 32115 of 32115 vectors, but costs 113k..298k gas on a hit and up to 359k on a miss (mean 140k), +3264 B. isSplitLite: 91k..173k on hits, up to 215k on misses, +2562 B, 7 hits lost and 1 false hit. The candidate's callback already averages 131k and peaks at 209k under a 245k limit, so neither fits: the port gate set in ep7 fails on gas. No port. A version bounded to later calls would keep under half of +.044 (my estimate) and still not reach 2nd.\n- e07-a-gas-profile: both copies blocked on their machines' Python (no venv, no python3): no profile. Not rerun: isSplit's own cost settles it.\n- config-oracle (10385ca3...): knowing each run's true sigma, rate and size gains nothing (best -.0012 se .0088 on tuning, non-blind); stopped by its rule, no holdout.\n- pin-volatility (751a83df...): -.0054 se .0033 vs tell_qm. closed-form-filter (801185a6...): +.0034 se .0029 over BASE; the exact lattice with the same tell loses. retail-price-likelihood (78250dad...): +.0058 se .0028 over BASE.\nEverything tried between pins and in the rival estimate (ep3-8) is nil or under .05. Tables: u1 is .010 under full tables. No measured lever closes .13.\n\nWHY FINISH NOW: ep7 set the rule (port only if gain >= .04, vectors match and gas fits; otherwise finish once the confirmation holds 4096). Gas fails, the confirmation holds 4096. A bounded port would take every episode left and cannot reach 2nd or 1st. A requester note can reopen it.\nSTOPPED: e01-c-replica (flag-aware-fee-table, never landed), e02-c-replica (between-pin), e07-c-quotient (quotient-lite), e07-a-split-test (copy-a). None is needed.\n\nWRITE-UP (results asked for in read): the candidate's artifact and hashes; the primary n4096 figure with se, sum, sumsq, worst5, gas peak, 0 failures; the flagged items and the figure without them; c14, the selection cohort and the pools as secondary; 524.94 + gap against the board as an estimate; first not reached and by how much; what failed (ep3-8); not done: the split-test port, a gas profile, any entry or speed check on the board, flag-aware tables. Probe (ep1-2): every arbitrage trade was read on the unpatched engine at 30 and 35 bps.\nLEDGER, final: engine seeds below 14009768 spent or retired; replica tuning used to 66307; holdout 10000..12047 once per frozen variant.", "read": [ "e06-a-fresh-confirm-1/c01", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-1/c02", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-1/c03", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-1/c04", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-2/c05", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-2/c06", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-2/c07", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-2/c08", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-3/c09", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-3/c11", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-3/c12", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-4/c13", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-4/c14", "e06-a-fresh-confirm-4/c15", "e07-a-confirm-fill/r1", "e07-a-confirm-fill/r2", "e07-a-confirm-fill/r3", "e07-a-confirm-fill/r4", "e04-a-u1-give/copy-b", "e05-a-u1g-paired-1/g1", "e05-a-u1g-paired-1/g3", "e05-a-u1g-paired-1/g4", "e05-a-u1g-paired-2/g5", "e05-a-u1g-paired-2/g6", "e05-a-u1g-paired-2/g7", "e05-a-u1g-paired-2/g8", "e07-c-quotient/quotient-on-base", "e07-c-quotient/config-oracle", "e07-a-split-test/copy-b", "e04-c-replica/stack-u1-give" ], "cancel": [ "e01-c-replica", "e02-c-replica", "e07-c-quotient", "e07-a-split-test" ], "finish": true }