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CB-WP-0041 done: ADR-0020 refuses the port, and T02 is why
T02 — all chance derives from one root seed. Three chance points, all
reading it: the setup deck shuffle, the setup Lead draw, and the reshuffle
permutation. The Problems deal is not chance at all. So in extensive-form
terms the tree has a single chance node at the root.

That test was wrong first, and the mutation caught it. It compared state
hashes — and GroundState carries `seed` as a field, so "different seeds
differ" was true by construction. Mutating the shuffle away left it green.
It now compares the dealt configuration, and the same mutation fails it: a
wrong-subject error inside the control written for T02.

The reshuffle is a pure function of (seed, round) because K5 requires
deterministic replay, where a real table reshuffles independently. That is
a modelling restriction, not a defect, and it is now pinned.

T03 — commit/reveal checked in both directions: before Reveal each seat
sees its own selection and no other; after Reveal the information sets
merge, because an encoding that hides forever is not commit/reveal either.

T04 — ADR-0020 refuses the EFG port, and the blocker is T02 rather than
T01, which inverts what the workplan expected. Perfect recall looked like
the risk and is a constraint with a known answer: key on observation
histories. Making chance explicit is the expensive one — the reshuffle
would become a real chance node and break the K5 purity that every
recording, replay bundle and trial-note hash depends on. A port would
trade the property this project is built on for one it has never needed.

Track B's first move is therefore a question, not a build: take "is
exploitability meaningful for a co-operative game with a shared threshold"
to OpenSpiel on a toy model, where answering it costs nothing. D4 states
what being wrong looks like — OpenSpiel settling on a toy what three
rounds of policy sweeps could not — and makes watching for it the next
action.

Taxonomy §4.1 records the EFG correspondence with the test that checks
each row, so a later pass starts from a specification rather than a memory.

Chaos window 4 at three declarations. Window 3's verdict is now two
windows behind and should be evaluated rather than restated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 15:35:03 +02:00

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Chaos roll — window records

One entry per chaos window. Split out of InnerLoopReference.md when that file crossed the loadability limit: this is a log that grows, and a log inside a reference eventually crowds out the reference.

The rule itself lives in InnerLoop.md §Loop tiers; the current window's terms are there. This is the history the verdicts rest on.

Window 1 (d4, closed 2026-08-02): 12 declarations, 2 overrides, one each way, and both changed the outcome. The mechanism was kept and the rate dropped d4 → d8 (CB-EV-0015 §5, CB-EV-0016 §4).

Window 2 (d8, 2026-08-03 → 2026-08-07): 12 declarations, of which 11 rolled at d8 — declaration 1 (CB-WP-0018) opened the window and rolled at the old d4. Expected 8s: 1.375. Observed: 1.

decl pass roll effect
1 CB-WP-0018 d4 = 3 opened the window at the old rate
2 CB-WP-0019 d8 = 5
3 CB-WP-0020 d8 = 8 override — drew S over a structural S: changed nothing
4 CB-WP-0021 d8 = 7
59 CB-WP-0022…0026 d8 = 6 ×5
10 CB-WP-0027 d8 = 7
11 CB-WP-0028 d8 = 1
12 CB-WP-0029 d8 = 4

Verdict (ADR-0017): the rate is behaving as designed. One override against 1.375 expected is not a shortage of evidence.

Why the retirement condition changed. "An override changes nothing twice running" requires a consecutive pair, each with P = 1/3, so ~12 overrides are expected before one occurs — at ~1.4 overrides per window, ~9 windows or roughly 100 declarations. A gate that cannot cash out on any realistic horizon is decoration (ADR-0006 D3). It is now evaluated per window, needing two consecutive qualifying windows: ~24 declarations rather than ~100.

Four evidence files claimed window 2 produced zero overrides. They were wrong, and each cited the one before rather than counting. See F23 — the failure is a claim with no source, asserted once and repeated, which no gate here detects.

A post-hoc observation, deliberately not acted on. Declarations 59 rolled six five times running (~1 in 370 for some run of five in eleven rolls). shuf was tested over 200 rapid successive calls and looks uniform, longest run three. Recorded so a future window can check whether it recurs; not evidence of anything on its own.


Window 3 — opened 2026-08-07 at d8, running to 12 declarations

# pass roll override
1 CB-WP-0030 d8 = 7
2 CB-WP-0031 d8 = 2
3 CB-WP-0032 d8 = 6
4 CB-WP-0033 d8 = 7
5 CB-WP-0034 d8 = 4
6 CB-WP-0035 d8 = 4
7 CB-WP-0036 (first declaration) d8 = 7
8 CB-WP-0036 (re-declared L→M) d8 = 7
9 CB-WP-0037 d8 = 1
10 CB-WP-0038 d8 = 8 yes — redraw L, structural was L, so it changed nothing
11 CB-WP-0039 d8 = 2
12 CB-WP-0040 d8 = 5

The window's first 8, at declaration 10. Expectation over ten rolls at d8 is 1.25; one is exactly on rate.

The override changed nothing, which is the observation ADR-0017 D2's retirement condition is built from — it needs a full window whose overrides all change nothing, in two consecutive windows. This window now had one qualifying override, and it changed nothing.

Window 3 is closed at 12 declarations. Its verdict is due and is not written here — recording it is a change to how the loop constrains its own operation, which is a tier-M trigger in its own right, and window 2's verdict was delayed the same way. One override in twelve, changing nothing, is the second consecutive window to produce no override that changed an outcome; ADR-0017 D2's retirement condition asks for exactly that in two consecutive windows and should now be evaluated rather than restated.

Declaration 8 is a re-declaration of the same workplan, counted separately because it was a materially different pass: CB-WP-0036 was re-scoped from L to M after the maintainer moved the animation work out of the repo, and a changed declaration is a new declaration or the roll is not binding on what was actually built.


Window 4 — opened 2026-08-08 at d8

# pass roll override
1 CB-WP-0041 d8 = 5
2 CB-WP-0042 d8 = 4
3 ADR-0020 d8 = 7

Window 3's verdict remains owed and is now two windows behind. One override in twelve, changing nothing, is the second consecutive window meeting ADR-0017 D2's retirement condition — "a full window's overrides all change nothing" — and the condition asks for two consecutive such windows. It should be evaluated, not restated again.