EXP-003 · settled 2026-07-19

Five more updates.
The same boundary.

Deterministic backtracking reached 1/128 and preserved the 1.5% cumulative replay authority, then exhausted every scale before the first public checkpoint.

Valid no-go

Committed71 updates
Smallest scale1 / 128
Public checkpoints0
Decision

Scalar continuation did not reopen the learning path.

Attempts 1–66 committed at full scale. Five more committed only after backtracking. Attempts 72–79 then exhausted all eight registered scales, triggering the frozen stop rule at 71 committed updates.

The maximum committed replay increase was 1.499444%, below the unchanged 1.5% authority. No rejected state was admitted. Because the run never reached 100 commits, quantity/public feasibility and promotion were not evaluated; replication seeds 1 and 3 stayed sealed.

Observed trajectory

Safe by construction. Insufficient by result.

66 full-scale

The trajectory matched Q2.4 through the original cumulative boundary.

5 backtracked

Geometric retries extended the safe path, including one commit at the minimum 1/128 scale.

8 exhausted

Every registered scale failed on eight consecutive outer attempts, ending the phase.

Recorded metrics

MetricValue
Outer attempts / candidate trials79 / 156
Full-scale / backtracked commits66 / 5
Warning / hard trial exceedances96 / 85
Maximum trial replay increase1.605636%
Maximum committed replay increase1.499444%
Public / promotion evaluations0 / 0

Forecasts settled to no-go

ForecasterFrozen go / no-go / failureBrier
Mechanistic backtracking model18% / 80% / 2%0.0728
Q2.3/Q2.4 trace model8% / 89% / 3%0.0194

Both independent forecasters assigned their largest probability to the observed outcome before execution.

16 objects

All content-addressed ledger objects verified.

17 events

The complete contribution-to-settlement chain verified.

7 source hashes

Contract, results, logs, checker, and driver match the run attestation.

Evidence

Exact commits, exact artifacts, one live run.

Execution used the frozen Zero implementation at 616220e2. The observed artifacts are published without source changes at result commit 16b1fc9f. ilXyr registered the experiment prospectively at 392aaac2 and resolved run f4cf8ffe… as a valid no-go.

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Follow-through

Direction changed. The standard held.

Q2.6 later ran prospectively as EXP-004 under the same replay authority and gates. Seed 2 resolved go. The seed-1 and seed-3 family replication then passed in EXP-005.