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 "notes": "EP6: woke on requester note 5 (T03 is the best file; confirm it on two blocks from 8700000; make it the main baton). Handed 30 results, 25 old. New: j5-c/j11, our first trained joint leg (below); j03 (6 CPUs, 198 markets/s, 49 generations, no gain, real engine unfinished); j09 (92 markets/s, no search: J5 vs IB +0.562 se 0.030, n 1,024); j17 (seat could not reach api.imd.fun); gj03 (+0.263 over IB). 16 j5 and 4 ig-joint legs still run EP5's brief from J5/IG, not cancelled (cancel frees nothing once items run).\n\nFACTS (plain fields read; ids = sha256 of the served bytes, checked; nothing unpacked or run).\n- T03 = 2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336, code sha256 cb6d9455...: code_zb64, params (W1, b1, W2, b2, constants = 41 names each ONE frozen value, scaling), notes. Real vs IB on 8588000..8589023: +0.819 se 0.060 (seed 8588481 +55.7; without it +0.765 se 0.026); afterSwap 235,575, 0 OOG. NO port_zb64: its port = port_zb64 of IG's file ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (IA's port, sha256 b29cd2a0...) with the three anchor literals read from W[NW..NW+2] and TH passed in with W (the j5 legs built it from J5's notes; gate A 0.00015 bps). Search: sigma0 1.0 capped 0.5^(min/30), ended at sigma 0.27 still rising after 1,598 generations.\n- J11 = cd8559ed66c20cec062b6edf56ccd990c7c8638a70c457a8315bda6b61fdebce (best own leg, from J5): code ea4047d3..., has port_zb64 and port_usage; params.constants = name: [IA value, J11 value]. 492 generations in 62 min (8 CPUs, 1,100 markets/s); sigma at the cap from 10 min, monitor flat after 40 min (cap too fast). Holdout 41010000..+8191: +0.612 se 0.011 over IB, +0.065 se 0.005 over J5; real 8078848..+511: +0.595 se 0.039 over IB, +0.091 se 0.018 over J5; afterSwap 237,673.\n- The real engine, not the search, breaks slow seats (6 CPUs: 128 markets over 460 s; gate A as one command timed out): hence the template's chunked gate A, 64-seed real chunks, IB and frozen arms only, 256 real seeds and a 45-minute reserve under 300 markets/s.\n- j5-diet was refused (a brief must never ask for a command's printed output); the diet/wide line stays parked.\n\nDECIDED (25 items; 111 of 200 used at most). Every brief carries note 3's sentence word for word.\n- confirm-t03 (2: t03-block-a/b): T03 vs IB on 8700000..8701023 and 8701024..8702047, no search, no port; per-seed diffs, worst/best five, quartiles, gas. At pooled >= +0.3 tell the requester T03 is confirmed with n, mean, se.\n- t3-a..t3-d (5 each, kNN-sSS-hHH-pPP): TEMPLATE legs from T03; sigma0 0.SS (0.3..0.7), cap halving every HH minutes (30..90), population PP.\n- j11-a (3: jc01..jc03): TEMPLATE from J11 (vars: PORT = its own port_zb64; gate B = START minus IB on seeds 8078848..8079359 within 0.15 of +0.595; cval ' as [IA, START]: use the second'), the second line.\n- All legs: holdout 41030000..41038191 (fresh and shared); monitor = ES mean every 5 minutes on 30000000..30002047; M = 512 at S >= 300 else 256.\nREAD: all 25 new items. Wake: the six batches or 150 minutes.\n\nLEDGER, never reuse. Real engine, 1,024-seed blocks (a leg uses 512 or 256 from the block start; a confirmation the whole block): below 8097280 taken; kNN 8097280+1024(NN-1), NN 01..20; jc01..03 8117760, 8118784, 8119808; confirm-t03 8700000..8702047; T03's own 8588000..8589023; next free 8120832. Replica train, 4,000,000-seed blocks: kNN 1216000000+4000000(NN-1); jc0i 1296000000+4000000(i-1); next free 1308000000 (stay below the sister goal's 1400000000). Holdout: round 3 41050000..+8191, then +20000 a round. ES seeds used: up to 20261323.\n\nNEXT EPISODE.\n1. Per result: blocked, speed, cpus, M, generations, minutes. A result's id is the SHA-256 the task text gives, served at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<id>; fetch once before briefing with it.\n2. Pool confirm-t03's blocks (sum, sumsq) with T03's own 1,024: n 3,072; report it in the notes.\n3. Rank legs by holdout frozen_vs_IB (se about 0.011, same seeds); check real frozen_vs_IB (se about 0.04) agrees, valid true, peak <= 245,000.\n4. Round 3 (about 25 legs in batches of 5): the TEMPLATE with START = the best leg's URL; port var 'START's own `port_zb64`'; cval ''; gateb 'START minus IB on the replica, seeds <the leg's real seeds>, within 0.15 of the real <its frozen_vs_IB>'; holdout 41050000..+8191; sigma0 near the leg's final sigma; cap half-life 45..90. 3..5 legs to the second-best. Same episode: confirm the best leg vs IB on two fresh 1,024-seed blocks (the confirm-t03 brief with CAND = the leg's URL and code sha256).\n5. Budget: about 89 items after this round, episodes 7..10: round 3 about 28 in EP7, round 4 about 25 plus confirmations in EP8, the final 2,048-seed confirmation of the best file in EP9, finish in EP10. When nothing new has landed, keep the running batches and set the wake; never spawn a round twice. Filled briefs are 2,964 characters: a longer var breaks the 3,000 limit.\n6. Write-up: the final file's URL, code and sha256, paired real gain over IB {n, mean_diff, se, worst5, best5} on fresh seeds, quartiles, volume deltas (no retail/arb edge split exists), gas, the curve by round (IB 0, J5 +0.55, J11 +0.60, T03 +0.77..0.82), what was not checked.\n\nTEMPLATE (leg; vars start, cval, port, gateb, esseed, pop, sigma, half, train, real; T03 vars: cval '', port '`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/<IG id> (sha256 b29cd2a0...)', gateb 'START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)'):\nOne relay leg; the next starts from your result. Follow the goal's objective exactly and the requester's rule: '<NOTE3>'\n\nFILES (check sha256s). START = https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/{{start}}: `code_zb64` (Solidity), `params` (W1, b1, W2, b2, 41 `constants`{{cval}}). PORT = {{port}}: IA's port with its three anchor literals read from W[NW..NW+2] and TH passed in with W, so the 41 constants are arguments (per START's notes). Replica: `replica_source` at the IB file's `hashes.artifact_urls.rep`; IB in its own port.\n\n1. SETUP; fetch and check the files.\n2. Gate A: PORT with START's values vs START's Solidity, 50 x 2,000 callbacks in commands of 10 sequences, < 0.01 bps. Gate B: {{gateb}}. S = steady-state replica markets/s on the search's warmed pool. A failed gate: no search, blocked={step,error}. S < 100: only step 6, IB and START, {{real}}..+1023.\n3. CMA-ES (pycma) over 219 z (178 weights, 41 constants), z = 0 at START: weight = start + 0.03 rms(its block) z; constant = start 2^(0.02 z) (exponent clipped to [-1,1]; decays via 1-d; integers rounded). ES seed {{esseed}}, population {{pop}}, sigma0 {{sigma}} capped at sigma0 x 0.5^(minutes/{{half}}). Each generation: all proposals on the same M fresh markets (512 if S >= 300, else 256), seeds from {{train}} up, never reused; fitness = mean edge. Every 5 minutes score the ES mean vs START on monitor seeds 30000000..30002047; keep the best. Stop 30 minutes before your time ends (45 if S < 300).\n4. Freeze the best point into START's Solidity (weights 1e-6, constants WAD, integers), changing only those literals. Gate C, < 0.1 bps.\n5. Holdout, once: frozen, START, IB on seeds 41030000..41038191, paired.\n6. REAL ENGINE, once: IB and frozen, each alone, seeds {{real}}..+511 (+255 if S < 300), 64-seed chunks each its own command, saved under scratch/; START's arm only if time remains.\n\nRESULT, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes with START's keys (the next leg's START): blocked; gates; speed{markets_per_s,cpus}; search{generations,minutes,M,curve [minutes, gain over START, se, sigma]}; params (frozen; constants as name: value); code_zb64, code_sha256; port_zb64, port_sha256; holdout and real: frozen_vs_start, frozen_vs_IB, start_vs_IB as n, mean_diff, se (real also sum, sumsq, worst5, retail/arb volume deltas, by_quartile of IB's retail volume); gas{afterSwap_peak per arm, oog}; valid (false on any OOG or peak over 245,000); notes. If nothing beat START, return START's values and say so.",
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   "brief": "One relay leg; the next starts from your result. Follow the goal's objective exactly and the requester's rule: 'This overrides the objective's 300 markets/s rule: search at any replica speed of at least 100 markets/s, with 256-market blocks below 300 markets/s, for the full time; only below 100 markets/s skip the search and do confirmations or kit work.'\n\nFILES (check sha256s). START = https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/{{start}}: `code_zb64` (Solidity), `params` (W1, b1, W2, b2, 41 `constants`{{cval}}). PORT = {{port}}: IA's port with its three anchor literals read from W[NW..NW+2] and TH passed in with W, so the 41 constants are arguments (per START's notes). Replica: `replica_source` at the IB file's `hashes.artifact_urls.rep`; IB in its own port.\n\n1. SETUP; fetch and check the files.\n2. Gate A: PORT with START's values vs START's Solidity, 50 x 2,000 callbacks in commands of 10 sequences, < 0.01 bps. Gate B: {{gateb}}. S = steady-state replica markets/s on the search's warmed pool. A failed gate: no search, blocked={step,error}. S < 100: only step 6, IB and START, {{real}}..+1023.\n3. CMA-ES (pycma) over 219 z (178 weights, 41 constants), z = 0 at START: weight = start + 0.03 rms(its block) z; constant = start 2^(0.02 z) (exponent clipped to [-1,1]; decays via 1-d; integers rounded). ES seed {{esseed}}, population {{pop}}, sigma0 {{sigma}} capped at sigma0 x 0.5^(minutes/{{half}}). Each generation: all proposals on the same M fresh markets (512 if S >= 300, else 256), seeds from {{train}} up, never reused; fitness = mean edge. Every 5 minutes score the ES mean vs START on monitor seeds 30000000..30002047; keep the best. Stop 30 minutes before your time ends (45 if S < 300).\n4. Freeze the best point into START's Solidity (weights 1e-6, constants WAD, integers), changing only those literals. Gate C, < 0.1 bps.\n5. Holdout, once: frozen, START, IB on seeds 41030000..41038191, paired.\n6. REAL ENGINE, once: IB and frozen, each alone, seeds {{real}}..+511 (+255 if S < 300), 64-seed chunks each its own command, saved under scratch/; START's arm only if time remains.\n\nRESULT, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes with START's keys (the next leg's START): blocked; gates; speed{markets_per_s,cpus}; search{generations,minutes,M,curve [minutes, gain over START, se, sigma]}; params (frozen; constants as name: value); code_zb64, code_sha256; port_zb64, port_sha256; holdout and real: frozen_vs_start, frozen_vs_IB, start_vs_IB as n, mean_diff, se (real also sum, sumsq, worst5, retail/arb volume deltas, by_quartile of IB's retail volume); gas{afterSwap_peak per arm, oog}; valid (false on any OOG or peak over 245,000); notes. If nothing beat START, return START's values and say so.",
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     "key": "k01-s05-h45-p16",
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      "cval": "",
      "port": "`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (sha256 b29cd2a0...)",
      "gateb": "START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)",
      "esseed": "20261301",
      "pop": "16",
      "sigma": "0.5",
      "half": "45",
      "train": "1216000000",
      "real": "8097280"
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     "key": "k02-s03-h45-p16",
     "vars": {
      "start": "2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336",
      "cval": "",
      "port": "`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (sha256 b29cd2a0...)",
      "gateb": "START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)",
      "esseed": "20261302",
      "pop": "16",
      "sigma": "0.3",
      "half": "45",
      "train": "1220000000",
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    {
     "key": "k03-s05-h90-p16",
     "vars": {
      "start": "2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336",
      "cval": "",
      "port": "`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (sha256 b29cd2a0...)",
      "gateb": "START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)",
      "esseed": "20261303",
      "pop": "16",
      "sigma": "0.5",
      "half": "90",
      "train": "1224000000",
      "real": "8099328"
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    },
    {
     "key": "k04-s03-h90-p16",
     "vars": {
      "start": "2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336",
      "cval": "",
      "port": "`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (sha256 b29cd2a0...)",
      "gateb": "START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)",
      "esseed": "20261304",
      "pop": "16",
      "sigma": "0.3",
      "half": "90",
      "train": "1228000000",
      "real": "8100352"
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    },
    {
     "key": "k05-s05-h45-p24",
     "vars": {
      "start": "2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336",
      "cval": "",
      "port": "`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (sha256 b29cd2a0...)",
      "gateb": "START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)",
      "esseed": "20261305",
      "pop": "24",
      "sigma": "0.5",
      "half": "45",
      "train": "1232000000",
      "real": "8101376"
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   "output": {
    "format": "json",
    "maxBytes": 64000
   },
   "merge": {
    "groupSize": 25,
    "brief": "Keep every item's result as it is, one entry per key: do not merge figures. List per item: blocked, speed, generations, holdout frozen_vs_IB and frozen_vs_start, real frozen_vs_IB, afterSwap peak, valid, code_sha256."
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  {
   "name": "t3-b",
   "brief": "One relay leg; the next starts from your result. Follow the goal's objective exactly and the requester's rule: 'This overrides the objective's 300 markets/s rule: search at any replica speed of at least 100 markets/s, with 256-market blocks below 300 markets/s, for the full time; only below 100 markets/s skip the search and do confirmations or kit work.'\n\nFILES (check sha256s). START = https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/{{start}}: `code_zb64` (Solidity), `params` (W1, b1, W2, b2, 41 `constants`{{cval}}). PORT = {{port}}: IA's port with its three anchor literals read from W[NW..NW+2] and TH passed in with W, so the 41 constants are arguments (per START's notes). Replica: `replica_source` at the IB file's `hashes.artifact_urls.rep`; IB in its own port.\n\n1. SETUP; fetch and check the files.\n2. Gate A: PORT with START's values vs START's Solidity, 50 x 2,000 callbacks in commands of 10 sequences, < 0.01 bps. Gate B: {{gateb}}. S = steady-state replica markets/s on the search's warmed pool. A failed gate: no search, blocked={step,error}. S < 100: only step 6, IB and START, {{real}}..+1023.\n3. CMA-ES (pycma) over 219 z (178 weights, 41 constants), z = 0 at START: weight = start + 0.03 rms(its block) z; constant = start 2^(0.02 z) (exponent clipped to [-1,1]; decays via 1-d; integers rounded). ES seed {{esseed}}, population {{pop}}, sigma0 {{sigma}} capped at sigma0 x 0.5^(minutes/{{half}}). Each generation: all proposals on the same M fresh markets (512 if S >= 300, else 256), seeds from {{train}} up, never reused; fitness = mean edge. Every 5 minutes score the ES mean vs START on monitor seeds 30000000..30002047; keep the best. Stop 30 minutes before your time ends (45 if S < 300).\n4. Freeze the best point into START's Solidity (weights 1e-6, constants WAD, integers), changing only those literals. Gate C, < 0.1 bps.\n5. Holdout, once: frozen, START, IB on seeds 41030000..41038191, paired.\n6. REAL ENGINE, once: IB and frozen, each alone, seeds {{real}}..+511 (+255 if S < 300), 64-seed chunks each its own command, saved under scratch/; START's arm only if time remains.\n\nRESULT, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes with START's keys (the next leg's START): blocked; gates; speed{markets_per_s,cpus}; search{generations,minutes,M,curve [minutes, gain over START, se, sigma]}; params (frozen; constants as name: value); code_zb64, code_sha256; port_zb64, port_sha256; holdout and real: frozen_vs_start, frozen_vs_IB, start_vs_IB as n, mean_diff, se (real also sum, sumsq, worst5, retail/arb volume deltas, by_quartile of IB's retail volume); gas{afterSwap_peak per arm, oog}; valid (false on any OOG or peak over 245,000); notes. If nothing beat START, return START's values and say so.",
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    {
     "key": "k06-s04-h60-p16",
     "vars": {
      "start": "2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336",
      "cval": "",
      "port": "`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (sha256 b29cd2a0...)",
      "gateb": "START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)",
      "esseed": "20261306",
      "pop": "16",
      "sigma": "0.4",
      "half": "60",
      "train": "1236000000",
      "real": "8102400"
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    },
    {
     "key": "k07-s03-h60-p16",
     "vars": {
      "start": "2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336",
      "cval": "",
      "port": "`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (sha256 b29cd2a0...)",
      "gateb": "START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)",
      "esseed": "20261307",
      "pop": "16",
      "sigma": "0.3",
      "half": "60",
      "train": "1240000000",
      "real": "8103424"
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    },
    {
     "key": "k08-s05-h60-p24",
     "vars": {
      "start": "2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336",
      "cval": "",
      "port": "`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (sha256 b29cd2a0...)",
      "gateb": "START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)",
      "esseed": "20261308",
      "pop": "24",
      "sigma": "0.5",
      "half": "60",
      "train": "1244000000",
      "real": "8104448"
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    {
     "key": "k09-s07-h45-p16",
     "vars": {
      "start": "2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336",
      "cval": "",
      "port": "`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (sha256 b29cd2a0...)",
      "gateb": "START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)",
      "esseed": "20261309",
      "pop": "16",
      "sigma": "0.7",
      "half": "45",
      "train": "1248000000",
      "real": "8105472"
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    },
    {
     "key": "k10-s04-h45-p16",
     "vars": {
      "start": "2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336",
      "cval": "",
      "port": "`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (sha256 b29cd2a0...)",
      "gateb": "START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)",
      "esseed": "20261310",
      "pop": "16",
      "sigma": "0.4",
      "half": "45",
      "train": "1252000000",
      "real": "8106496"
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    }
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   "output": {
    "format": "json",
    "maxBytes": 64000
   },
   "merge": {
    "groupSize": 25,
    "brief": "Keep every item's result as it is, one entry per key: do not merge figures. List per item: blocked, speed, generations, holdout frozen_vs_IB and frozen_vs_start, real frozen_vs_IB, afterSwap peak, valid, code_sha256."
   }
  },
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   "name": "t3-c",
   "brief": "One relay leg; the next starts from your result. Follow the goal's objective exactly and the requester's rule: 'This overrides the objective's 300 markets/s rule: search at any replica speed of at least 100 markets/s, with 256-market blocks below 300 markets/s, for the full time; only below 100 markets/s skip the search and do confirmations or kit work.'\n\nFILES (check sha256s). START = https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/{{start}}: `code_zb64` (Solidity), `params` (W1, b1, W2, b2, 41 `constants`{{cval}}). PORT = {{port}}: IA's port with its three anchor literals read from W[NW..NW+2] and TH passed in with W, so the 41 constants are arguments (per START's notes). Replica: `replica_source` at the IB file's `hashes.artifact_urls.rep`; IB in its own port.\n\n1. SETUP; fetch and check the files.\n2. Gate A: PORT with START's values vs START's Solidity, 50 x 2,000 callbacks in commands of 10 sequences, < 0.01 bps. Gate B: {{gateb}}. S = steady-state replica markets/s on the search's warmed pool. A failed gate: no search, blocked={step,error}. S < 100: only step 6, IB and START, {{real}}..+1023.\n3. CMA-ES (pycma) over 219 z (178 weights, 41 constants), z = 0 at START: weight = start + 0.03 rms(its block) z; constant = start 2^(0.02 z) (exponent clipped to [-1,1]; decays via 1-d; integers rounded). ES seed {{esseed}}, population {{pop}}, sigma0 {{sigma}} capped at sigma0 x 0.5^(minutes/{{half}}). Each generation: all proposals on the same M fresh markets (512 if S >= 300, else 256), seeds from {{train}} up, never reused; fitness = mean edge. Every 5 minutes score the ES mean vs START on monitor seeds 30000000..30002047; keep the best. Stop 30 minutes before your time ends (45 if S < 300).\n4. Freeze the best point into START's Solidity (weights 1e-6, constants WAD, integers), changing only those literals. Gate C, < 0.1 bps.\n5. Holdout, once: frozen, START, IB on seeds 41030000..41038191, paired.\n6. REAL ENGINE, once: IB and frozen, each alone, seeds {{real}}..+511 (+255 if S < 300), 64-seed chunks each its own command, saved under scratch/; START's arm only if time remains.\n\nRESULT, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes with START's keys (the next leg's START): blocked; gates; speed{markets_per_s,cpus}; search{generations,minutes,M,curve [minutes, gain over START, se, sigma]}; params (frozen; constants as name: value); code_zb64, code_sha256; port_zb64, port_sha256; holdout and real: frozen_vs_start, frozen_vs_IB, start_vs_IB as n, mean_diff, se (real also sum, sumsq, worst5, retail/arb volume deltas, by_quartile of IB's retail volume); gas{afterSwap_peak per arm, oog}; valid (false on any OOG or peak over 245,000); notes. If nothing beat START, return START's values and say so.",
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     "key": "k13-s05-h90-p16",
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     "key": "k14-s05-h60-p16",
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     "key": "k15-s04-h90-p24",
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      "start": "2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336",
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      "port": "`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (sha256 b29cd2a0...)",
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   "name": "t3-d",
   "brief": "One relay leg; the next starts from your result. Follow the goal's objective exactly and the requester's rule: 'This overrides the objective's 300 markets/s rule: search at any replica speed of at least 100 markets/s, with 256-market blocks below 300 markets/s, for the full time; only below 100 markets/s skip the search and do confirmations or kit work.'\n\nFILES (check sha256s). START = https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/{{start}}: `code_zb64` (Solidity), `params` (W1, b1, W2, b2, 41 `constants`{{cval}}). PORT = {{port}}: IA's port with its three anchor literals read from W[NW..NW+2] and TH passed in with W, so the 41 constants are arguments (per START's notes). Replica: `replica_source` at the IB file's `hashes.artifact_urls.rep`; IB in its own port.\n\n1. SETUP; fetch and check the files.\n2. Gate A: PORT with START's values vs START's Solidity, 50 x 2,000 callbacks in commands of 10 sequences, < 0.01 bps. Gate B: {{gateb}}. S = steady-state replica markets/s on the search's warmed pool. A failed gate: no search, blocked={step,error}. S < 100: only step 6, IB and START, {{real}}..+1023.\n3. CMA-ES (pycma) over 219 z (178 weights, 41 constants), z = 0 at START: weight = start + 0.03 rms(its block) z; constant = start 2^(0.02 z) (exponent clipped to [-1,1]; decays via 1-d; integers rounded). ES seed {{esseed}}, population {{pop}}, sigma0 {{sigma}} capped at sigma0 x 0.5^(minutes/{{half}}). Each generation: all proposals on the same M fresh markets (512 if S >= 300, else 256), seeds from {{train}} up, never reused; fitness = mean edge. Every 5 minutes score the ES mean vs START on monitor seeds 30000000..30002047; keep the best. Stop 30 minutes before your time ends (45 if S < 300).\n4. Freeze the best point into START's Solidity (weights 1e-6, constants WAD, integers), changing only those literals. Gate C, < 0.1 bps.\n5. Holdout, once: frozen, START, IB on seeds 41030000..41038191, paired.\n6. REAL ENGINE, once: IB and frozen, each alone, seeds {{real}}..+511 (+255 if S < 300), 64-seed chunks each its own command, saved under scratch/; START's arm only if time remains.\n\nRESULT, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes with START's keys (the next leg's START): blocked; gates; speed{markets_per_s,cpus}; search{generations,minutes,M,curve [minutes, gain over START, se, sigma]}; params (frozen; constants as name: value); code_zb64, code_sha256; port_zb64, port_sha256; holdout and real: frozen_vs_start, frozen_vs_IB, start_vs_IB as n, mean_diff, se (real also sum, sumsq, worst5, retail/arb volume deltas, by_quartile of IB's retail volume); gas{afterSwap_peak per arm, oog}; valid (false on any OOG or peak over 245,000); notes. If nothing beat START, return START's values and say so.",
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      "gateb": "START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)",
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     "key": "k18-s05-h30-p24",
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      "start": "2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336",
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     "key": "k19-s06-h60-p16",
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     "key": "k20-s04-h60-p16",
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      "start": "2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336",
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      "port": "`port_zb64` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/ebbd90c663c396598965b23341aea97a4501b4c971db183a8fe94a880f399979 (sha256 b29cd2a0...)",
      "gateb": "START minus IB on the replica, seeds 8588000..8589023, within 0.15 of the real +0.819 (or +0.765 without seed 8588481)",
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   "brief": "One relay leg; the next starts from your result. Follow the goal's objective exactly and the requester's rule: 'This overrides the objective's 300 markets/s rule: search at any replica speed of at least 100 markets/s, with 256-market blocks below 300 markets/s, for the full time; only below 100 markets/s skip the search and do confirmations or kit work.'\n\nFILES (check sha256s). START = https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/{{start}}: `code_zb64` (Solidity), `params` (W1, b1, W2, b2, 41 `constants`{{cval}}). PORT = {{port}}: IA's port with its three anchor literals read from W[NW..NW+2] and TH passed in with W, so the 41 constants are arguments (per START's notes). Replica: `replica_source` at the IB file's `hashes.artifact_urls.rep`; IB in its own port.\n\n1. SETUP; fetch and check the files.\n2. Gate A: PORT with START's values vs START's Solidity, 50 x 2,000 callbacks in commands of 10 sequences, < 0.01 bps. Gate B: {{gateb}}. S = steady-state replica markets/s on the search's warmed pool. A failed gate: no search, blocked={step,error}. S < 100: only step 6, IB and START, {{real}}..+1023.\n3. CMA-ES (pycma) over 219 z (178 weights, 41 constants), z = 0 at START: weight = start + 0.03 rms(its block) z; constant = start 2^(0.02 z) (exponent clipped to [-1,1]; decays via 1-d; integers rounded). ES seed {{esseed}}, population {{pop}}, sigma0 {{sigma}} capped at sigma0 x 0.5^(minutes/{{half}}). Each generation: all proposals on the same M fresh markets (512 if S >= 300, else 256), seeds from {{train}} up, never reused; fitness = mean edge. Every 5 minutes score the ES mean vs START on monitor seeds 30000000..30002047; keep the best. Stop 30 minutes before your time ends (45 if S < 300).\n4. Freeze the best point into START's Solidity (weights 1e-6, constants WAD, integers), changing only those literals. Gate C, < 0.1 bps.\n5. Holdout, once: frozen, START, IB on seeds 41030000..41038191, paired.\n6. REAL ENGINE, once: IB and frozen, each alone, seeds {{real}}..+511 (+255 if S < 300), 64-seed chunks each its own command, saved under scratch/; START's arm only if time remains.\n\nRESULT, one JSON object under 60,000 bytes with START's keys (the next leg's START): blocked; gates; speed{markets_per_s,cpus}; search{generations,minutes,M,curve [minutes, gain over START, se, sigma]}; params (frozen; constants as name: value); code_zb64, code_sha256; port_zb64, port_sha256; holdout and real: frozen_vs_start, frozen_vs_IB, start_vs_IB as n, mean_diff, se (real also sum, sumsq, worst5, retail/arb volume deltas, by_quartile of IB's retail volume); gas{afterSwap_peak per arm, oog}; valid (false on any OOG or peak over 245,000); notes. If nothing beat START, return START's values and say so.",
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     "key": "jc01-s03-h45-p16",
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      "start": "cd8559ed66c20cec062b6edf56ccd990c7c8638a70c457a8315bda6b61fdebce",
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     "key": "jc03-s03-h60-p24",
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      "start": "cd8559ed66c20cec062b6edf56ccd990c7c8638a70c457a8315bda6b61fdebce",
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   "brief": "Confirm one candidate against IB on the real engine: no search, no port. Follow the goal's objective exactly (SETUP, REAL ENGINE), and the requester's rule: 'This overrides the objective's 300 markets/s rule: search at any replica speed of at least 100 markets/s, with 256-market blocks below 300 markets/s, for the full time; only below 100 markets/s skip the search and do confirmations or kit work.'\n\nFILES (`_zb64` = base64 of zlib; check sha256s). CAND = T03 = https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/2333ecf28d4356bd232b85c1e55842e94e1ada05e1cd067830b5625dfdbc5336: `code_zb64` (Solidity, sha256 cb6d945511e1e10af78baa64c2a6cb25806f0998403ce6440654bfc3c70092d9), `params`. IB = the goal's IB file: `code_zb64` (sha256 301941829a44bb60977bb28181a5e4bfa6544f3696763f987054789b2611d686).\n\n1. SETUP; fetch and check the files; decode both Solidity files, check their sha256s, and pass each through `amm-match validate`.\n2. REAL ENGINE, once: IB's Solidity and CAND's, each alone against the 30 bps VanillaStrategy, seeds {{real}}..+1023 (every seed used once, none outside this block), in 64-seed chunks, each chunk its own command (under 8 minutes) with its results saved under scratch/ before the next; gas_stats reset before and read after every chunk, aggregated per arm (sum of counts, max of peaks).\n\nRESULT: one JSON object under 60,000 bytes: seeds; paired_vs_IB (CAND minus IB, per seed): n, mean_diff, se, sum, sumsq, median, share_positive, worst5 and best5 as [seed, diff]; diffs: the 1,024 paired differences in seed order, rounded to 1e-4; by_quartile of IB's retail volume (q1 quietest: n, mean_diff, se); retail and arb volume deltas (mean per market, se); mean_edge per arm; gas{afterSwap_peak and afterInitialize_peak per arm, oog, other failures, calls}; valid (false on any OOG or a peak over 245,000); code_sha256 of each Solidity as run; notes (what ran, what did not). Report only what you measured; no leaderboard claim.",
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