Two instrument defects, both of the class the harness was built to prevent —
a probe that could not look reporting a value that reads like a result:
- environment() read mlx.__version__, which does not exist (only
mlx.core.__version__). Every run record would have said mlx_version
"unknown" for an installed, versioned package, losing the one field that
makes trial 03 comparable to trial 02. It is MLX 0.31.2, identical.
- git_revision() returns null whenever the harness runs outside its repo,
which is always — it must run on the machine holding the model. The prompt
and input were hashed; the instrument itself was not. Now self-hashed.
The pre-registration addendum is committed BEFORE the run produced output, so
the ordering is checkable rather than asserted. It records: the 'unruled'
premise expiring at REVIEWED-86 (12:13, 32 min after the pre-registration was
written) and why the ordering favours the ground truth; the contamination that
CANNOT be removed, since the amended doctrine is in the executor's auto-loaded
context and I am therefore not a blind grader; the (a)/anti-echo collision
resolved against my own convenience before output existed; and the seed.
Ground truth (a)-(e) is unrevised and will not be revised.
The Fool experiment was not reproducible. Trials 01-02 were run ad hoc: no
script, and of the run conditions only the model ID, MLX version, hardware and
enable_thinking survive. The prompt exists as paraphrase with quoted fragments;
temperature, top_p, max_tokens and seed were never recorded anywhere. Trial 03
could not have been run under trial 02's conditions.
The same failure destroyed the v1 Chamber's GPT-side protocol, discovered today:
it lived as configuration inside a hosted product, was updated in place, and is
gone. The Claude-side prompt from the same morning survives because it was a file
in a repository. A protocol that is not a file is not a protocol.
fool/run_trial.py makes every run a file — prompt hashed into the record, every
sampling parameter recorded including defaults, reasoning trace separated but
never suppressed, and an empty answer marked `degraded` rather than passing as a
finding of silence (trial 02's error, now structurally impossible). Trial 03's
prompt is reconstructed from the surviving fragments and says so in its own
PROVENANCE file: trial 03 is NOT a strict one-variable step from trial 02, and
the chain is clean only from here forward.
ADDENDUM-1 files the measurement the ESCALATE doctrine package states it lacks
("no such measurement exists"). The 2025 Chamber archive, read at steward
direction, shows mutual divergence in 3 of 3 pairs where the instruction was
comparable. Its value is that its parties were of matched capability, so their
divergence cannot be a capability-gap artifact — the arm these trials
structurally cannot produce. Scope held tight: this measures formation
independence between two commercial models. It does NOT answer Q3, the
jurist-executor pair, and the executor's lean there remains none.
Carried as disconfirming evidence: all five interpretive corrections today came
from the steward, not from the executor's own checking, and every one was a
census failure rather than a reading failure. A differently-formed reader of a
document is not positioned to catch those. Formation diversity addresses reading,
not scope.
Nothing applied. The parent package is unmodified; no ratified document edited.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WuMjg3ipEVa3n8CoSzoyvc
David F Glidden