iteration 05 · sibling-demotion · forex · sweep · 2026-07-03T00:07:16Z
sibling-demotion WATCH
In plain terms
The operator ruled that candidates duplicating each other cannot be labeled clean. Three previously-clean candidates are therefore moved to the watch list: two skewness measures that are 99.7% the same signal as each other, and one graph-pattern measure that sits in a family of four near-identical turning-point measures. None are deleted — each duplicate family still holds one promotable idea, and the operator picks which member carries it. The final scoreboard is now 10 clean, 15 watch, 3 banned.
The operator ruled that candidates duplicating each other cannot be labeled clean. Three previously-clean candidates are therefore moved to the watch list: two skewness measures that are 99.7% the same signal as each other, and one graph-pattern measure that sits in a family of four near-identical turning-point measures. None are deleted — each duplicate family still holds one promotable idea, and the operator picks which member carries it. The final scoreboard is now 10 clean, 15 watch, 3 banned.
Grounded this iteration
Operator mandate 2026-07-03: sibling-redundant candidates may not carry PASS. Deterministic demotion rule applied to candidates_status.json verdict field (prior value preserved in verdict_pre_sibling, stage=sibling-demoted): the 3 xi-PASS members of pairwise duplicate groups / LOO-R2 DUP grade demoted to WATCH. WATCH (not BAN) because each duplicate group retains exactly one promotable representative, operator-chosen; BAN stays reserved for candidate-vs-production terminality. Final board table + verdict.md carry the final layer; machine-transcribed xi §B tables are immutable history.
demotedkelly_decile_skewness, groeneveld_meeden_b3_skewness, hvg_tetradic_motif_profile_entropy (PASS -> WATCH)
rulexi-PASS AND (duplicate-group member OR LOO-R2 DUP) -> WATCH (sibling-redundant)
final_tally10 PASS / 15 WATCH / 3 BAN (was 13/12/3)
provenanceverdict_pre_sibling preserved per candidate; xi tables untouched (historical transcription)