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CB-WP-0038: variant selection, H1 implemented, and H1 measured ground-game packages hypotheses as selectable rules variants — a catalog, a rules_delta.yaml, and prose — and their note is explicit that CSV text alone is not executable here. So the kernel gains a Variant in game state: in the state, therefore in the hash, therefore in the recording, because a scenario replayed under a different variant would diverge silently. Baseline is bit-for-bit what it was, asserted across seat counts and seeds. A variant system that perturbs the baseline invalidates every measurement this repo has. H1-A and H1-B implemented from rules_delta.yaml and mutation-proven on their own defects: "unclaimed" misread as face-up-and-unsolved, and the attacker's Stress read after the attack's effects. Their `unchanged:` list is asserted rather than trusted — that list is their claim about their own experiment. Measured, and three of their four criteria fail. DARVO arm rate is still 0 under greedy; ATTACK selection does not rise and falls for the rank-75 policy; group success collapses from 165/190/200 to 0 at 3/4/6 seats. The mechanism is not the assumed one: greedy answers the pressure by regulating, Stress plateaus at 3, so it never reaches the gate at 4 or the arm at 5 — H1-A acts as a solve-rate tax and H1-B is unreachable under competent play. A harness defect was caught before the claim: sweep discarded refused games silently and never reported its count, so "nobody won" and "nothing played" printed identically. Reporting H1 as unwinnable on that basis would have been the ADR-0018 family aimed at another repo's design. All 200 games ran in every cell; the zeros are real. Chaos d8 = 8 — the window's first override, redrew L against a structural L, so it changed nothing. Window 3 recorded in ChaosRollHistory. NOT REVIEWED: tier L owes a separate-agent adversarial review, and no H1 result may reach ground-game until it has run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 00:50:08 +02:00
# Experiment H1 — problem pressure + high-stress ATTACK self-soothe
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CB-WP-0047: all four boards, and every mode named on the page The modes were already implemented; nothing had ever COMPARED them. The scenarios were not implemented at all: edition::deal has taken a scenario_id since it was written and the only caller passed the literal "SCN_01", so 15 of 20 Problem cards had never been dealt by anything. The seam was the whole mechanism and it sat unused, with nothing red because nothing asked. Scenario is now state (serde default SCN_01, so all 26 recordings replay unchanged), selected by preset `scn-03-4p` with `standard-Np` still meaning SCN_01, and by --scenario/SCENARIO= accepting ids, numbers or titles, validated against the edition rather than a pattern. The threshold now comes off the Scenario card, closing F25's hardcoded 5/7/9. The first version of that control was worthless and mutation said so: all four scenarios print 5/7/9, so reverting to the bands left it green. Split threshold_from() so it can be handed a card that disagrees. The header read `scoring CommonProblem` where the Mode card is titled COMMON PROBLEM, PERSONAL EDGE -- the defect CB-WP-0034 deleted from the move buttons, still standing on the line that says what winning means. The coverage probe was matching that Debug output and went red when it was fixed: third instance (CB-WP-0024, CB-WP-0034). Page now carries the premise, the mode's rules text, and the tiebreak. scenario-panel plays 4x3x3. Findings: SCN_01 and SCN_02 are the same board (identical cells, pinned by a characterisation test); SCN_04 is the hard board at 2p (52% vs 67/73%, the only deck needing two Repair); and group success is EXACTLY equal across all three modes in all 36 cells, because greedy never reads state.mode -- filed F27, the two competitive modes are scoring lenses over cooperative play. F28: SHARED GROUND's mastery subtracts penalties from the claimed COUNT where the mode card's shared score is claimed VALUE. Raised, not fixed; scoring is ground-game's to rule on. Also fixes design.py reporting a backticked path as no reproduction. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 20:51:46 +02:00
| **variant_id** | `h1-problem-stress` (**legacy** — prefer profile `h1` = `problem_stress.flat_any_open` + `attack_relief.self_soothe_ge4`) |
| **modules** | flat problem stress + attack self-soothe (see `editions/modules/`) |
CB-WP-0038: variant selection, H1 implemented, and H1 measured ground-game packages hypotheses as selectable rules variants — a catalog, a rules_delta.yaml, and prose — and their note is explicit that CSV text alone is not executable here. So the kernel gains a Variant in game state: in the state, therefore in the hash, therefore in the recording, because a scenario replayed under a different variant would diverge silently. Baseline is bit-for-bit what it was, asserted across seat counts and seeds. A variant system that perturbs the baseline invalidates every measurement this repo has. H1-A and H1-B implemented from rules_delta.yaml and mutation-proven on their own defects: "unclaimed" misread as face-up-and-unsolved, and the attacker's Stress read after the attack's effects. Their `unchanged:` list is asserted rather than trusted — that list is their claim about their own experiment. Measured, and three of their four criteria fail. DARVO arm rate is still 0 under greedy; ATTACK selection does not rise and falls for the rank-75 policy; group success collapses from 165/190/200 to 0 at 3/4/6 seats. The mechanism is not the assumed one: greedy answers the pressure by regulating, Stress plateaus at 3, so it never reaches the gate at 4 or the arm at 5 — H1-A acts as a solve-rate tax and H1-B is unreachable under competent play. A harness defect was caught before the claim: sweep discarded refused games silently and never reported its count, so "nobody won" and "nothing played" printed identically. Reporting H1 as unwinnable on that basis would have been the ADR-0018 family aimed at another repo's design. All 200 games ran in every cell; the zeros are real. Chaos d8 = 8 — the window's first override, redrew L against a structural L, so it changed nothing. Window 3 recorded in ChaosRollHistory. NOT REVIEWED: tier L owes a separate-agent adversarial review, and no H1 result may reach ground-game until it has run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 00:50:08 +02:00
| **base** | `ground-darvo-r0` |
Re-vendor after ground-game acted on the H1 report edition-check's freshness comparison — newly covering the sibling packages after CB-REV-0003 #3 — caught catalog.yaml and VARIANT.md moving upstream within hours of the H1 report landing. ground-game marked the variant status: measured, added a measurement_ref to their own report of it, and rewrote the baseline summary around our finding that ATTACK is the sole inbound pressure. The check earned itself on its first real use: before round 3 those two files were recorded and never compared, so this would have gone unnoticed and our vendored catalog would have quietly disagreed with theirs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 11:43:13 +02:00
| **status** | measured — reject as baseline (2026-08-08); keep for A/B |
| **measurement** | [`../../../reports/260808-clay-borg-h1-measured.md`](../../../reports/260808-clay-borg-h1-measured.md) |
CB-WP-0038: variant selection, H1 implemented, and H1 measured ground-game packages hypotheses as selectable rules variants — a catalog, a rules_delta.yaml, and prose — and their note is explicit that CSV text alone is not executable here. So the kernel gains a Variant in game state: in the state, therefore in the hash, therefore in the recording, because a scenario replayed under a different variant would diverge silently. Baseline is bit-for-bit what it was, asserted across seat counts and seeds. A variant system that perturbs the baseline invalidates every measurement this repo has. H1-A and H1-B implemented from rules_delta.yaml and mutation-proven on their own defects: "unclaimed" misread as face-up-and-unsolved, and the attacker's Stress read after the attack's effects. Their `unchanged:` list is asserted rather than trusted — that list is their claim about their own experiment. Measured, and three of their four criteria fail. DARVO arm rate is still 0 under greedy; ATTACK selection does not rise and falls for the rank-75 policy; group success collapses from 165/190/200 to 0 at 3/4/6 seats. The mechanism is not the assumed one: greedy answers the pressure by regulating, Stress plateaus at 3, so it never reaches the gate at 4 or the arm at 5 — H1-A acts as a solve-rate tax and H1-B is unreachable under competent play. A harness defect was caught before the claim: sweep discarded refused games silently and never reported its count, so "nobody won" and "nothing played" printed identically. Reporting H1 as unwinnable on that basis would have been the ADR-0018 family aimed at another repo's design. All 200 games ran in every cell; the zeros are real. Chaos d8 = 8 — the window's first override, redrew L against a structural L, so it changed nothing. Window 3 recorded in ChaosRollHistory. NOT REVIEWED: tier L owes a separate-agent adversarial review, and no H1 result may reach ground-game until it has run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 00:50:08 +02:00
| **catalog** | [`../../catalog.yaml`](../../catalog.yaml) |
| **design note** | [`../../../history/260807-attack-darvo-stress-design.md`](../../../history/260807-attack-darvo-stress-design.md) |
| **workplan** | [`../../../workplans/GROUND-WP-0006-h1-problem-stress-experiment.md`](../../../workplans/GROUND-WP-0006-h1-problem-stress-experiment.md) |
## Hypothesis
If unsolved shared Problems raise Stress, and high-Stress ATTACK returns a small self-relief, then competent play will sometimes arm DARVO and sometimes select ATTACK, without making always-ATTACK optimal.
## Deltas (only)
### H1-A — Problem pressure
At **Round End**, before the Stress clamp that arms DARVO:
- If **any** Problem still in play is **unclaimed** (face-up unsolved, hidden, or Denied), **each player +1 Stress**.
- Then clamp 0–5, arm DARVO at 5 as in baseline, rotate Lead, advance Round.
### H1-B — High-stress ATTACK self-soothe
When an Attack resolves and is **not cancelled**, if the attacker’s Stress was **≥ 4 before that Attack’s effects**, the attacker takes **−1 Stress** (then clamp). Target and relation effects unchanged.
## Table play
Use baseline components for everything except:
1. Read End step and Stress/Attack wording from this package’s `Rules_Text.csv` / `Actions.csv` (or this file).
2. Do not mix with baseline r0 wording mid-game.
## Simulation (clay-borg)
1. Select `variant_id: h1-problem-stress` via catalog.
2. Inherit base edition data for Problems/Solutions/Modes/Tokens.
3. Implement `rules_delta.yaml` in the kernel (H1-A, H1-B). CSV text is provenance for the table, not a substitute for kernel changes.
## Decision criteria
See design note §3.2. Catalog `utility_estimate` / `decision` update only after measurement — not when packaging.
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