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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

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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`](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** |
**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
has one qualifying override and two declarations left to run.
**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.