Asked to catalogue 300 to 400 provenance-verified candidate instruments and feed screened batches to the admission lab. 32 firings delivered 108 catalogued and 68 fed before the operator stopped it at roughly a third of target.
| Quantity | Value | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Catalogue coverage | 108 of a 300 target | 192 entries short |
| Instruments fed to the lab | 68 across 6 batches | |
| Screened-pass entries | 75 | cleared the paper gates |
| STABLE boundary | 46 verified of a 100 minimum | the campaign's own declared first priority |
| Cross-cutting boundary | 5 verified of 20, 0 fed | the only boundary never fed |
| Firing | What it did |
|---|---|
| 01-02 | Family-1 invariance harvest, 11 entries; the arXiv channel recovered |
| 04 | First feed batch handed to the admission lab |
| 06 | Rulebook frozen at merge, May attic imported, 50 entries |
| 27 | Sixth batch published โ every status boundary has now been fed |
| 32 | Three more entries, then operator stop; schedule cancelled, queue preserved |
192 catalogue entries short of the declared 300, with the STABLE boundary โ its own stated first priority โ at 46 of a 100 minimum. The resume queue is preserved and ordered. Needs the OPERATOR choosing among the three options the campaign itself names: resume, convert to slow-refill cadence, or close. Standing item: the self-hosted crawl host is down with 5 revisits parked. Worth flagging honestly โ its consumer lab is itself parked with an 11-item backlog, so resuming is not urgent even though it is unfinished.
Stopped mid-scope at roughly a third of target by an explicit operator directive, with a named ordered resume queue and a named decider.
'STOPPED BY OPERATOR 2026-07-09 (iter 32; resume via LOOP-PROMPT.md โ queue preserved).' (manifest.json status)
Lifecycle status is process state, not a judgement of the findings. Results are stated as numbers with their uncertainty.
THIS LOOP (laptop, paper-only) ADMISSION LOOP (bigblack, compute) harvest leads from 20 method families consumes FRONTIER-FEED batches as โ verify provenance (journal DOI / arXiv) Tier-2 refills โ runs the real-data โ check FOSS implementation exists gates M2โM5 on actual market bars โ dedup vs certified stack + boneyard โ sole authority for ADMIT / EXCLUDE โ tag ONE status boundary โ screen M0/M1 โ batch โฅ10 passers per boundary โโโโโโโโโโโบ FRONTIER-FEED.md (the only interface)
| Status boundary | Minimum | Verified entries | Screened-pass | Fed | Starvation (min − verified) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STABLE ceiling (first priority) | 100 | 46 | 30 | 23 (B-01+B-03) | 54 |
| FRAGILE ↔ CONDITIONAL split | 60 | 14 | 12 | 12 (B-04) | 46 |
| CONDITIONAL regime-scoping | 40 | 14 | 12 | 12 (B-06) | 26 |
| FAIL line | 40 | 13 | 10 | 10 (B-02) | 27 |
| EXPIRY / live decay | 40 | 16 | 11 | 11 (B-05) | 24 |
| Cross-cutting (nulls under dependence) | 20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Total | 300 | 108 | 75 | 68 | 192 |
| # | Report | In plain words | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Family-1 invariance harvest: 6 new STABLE entries | Bootstrapped the campaign (worktree, dashboard twin, PR) and verified six invariance-testing instruments end-to-end โ journal DOI + open-source check on every one | HARVESTED 6 ยท CHECKPOINT |
| 2 | PMLR leads recovered + the ε-frontier anchor: 5 new STABLE entries | The arXiv channel recovered; the three held-back candidates entered with verified papers, plus an instrument-validity test and the 2025 intractability proof that anchors the ε-approximate-invariance framing. Seed-counter off-by-one corrected on the record. | HARVESTED 5 ยท FAMILY 1 NEAR-SWEPT |
| 3 | First M0/M1 screen batch: 10 pass, 6 out | Every STABLE instrument faced the two paper-gates; ten earned their place with named trust anchors, six went out with reasons on record. The first handoff batch to the admission lab is now due. | 10 PASS ยท 6 OUT ยท FEED TRIGGERED |
| 4 | Feed batch B-01 published: first handoff to the admission lab | The ten vetted STABLE instruments were packaged cheapest-kill-first and placed on the admission lab's intake shelf โ the campaign's first deliverable. The interrupted prior firing was completed honestly on the record; the operator's relaunch directives (20m cadence, brute-force sweep, web-search re-probe โ still filter-blocked) were ledger-recorded. | B-01 FED ยท 10 ENTRIES TERMINAL |
| 5 | Predecessor-import batch I-01: 12 rows, 8 dedup kills | Twelve instruments from the May catalog re-earned their place under today's rules โ fresh provenance, fresh code checks, four-way dedup. STABLE deepened (+4 causal-discovery machines), the FAIL and FRAGILEโCONDITIONAL boundaries opened their first entries, and eight attic items were rejected at the door with reasons on record. The hosted web-search channel answered a query for the first time in four days โ eight new leads parked in the taxonomy. | 12 IMPORTED ยท 8 KILLS ยท WEBSEARCH CONDITIONAL |
| 6 | H0 frozen at merge ยท branch rebased ยท import complete: 50 entries | The operator merged the scaffold PR โ squash 68596b5a is now the rulebook's permanent fingerprint โ and the campaign branch was rebased onto it with every record byte-verified. The dashboard-wipe race was root-caused and fixed by the merge itself. The May attic emptied: twelve more instruments entered (two immediately screened out for having no code anywhere โ the rule is merciless). Every boundary now has at least one verified instrument. | H0 FROZEN ยท 12 IMPORTED ยท 50/300 |
| 7 | Family 2 swept: nine anytime-valid monitors, 59 total | The anytime-valid school entered: provable-false-alarm change detectors, forever-honest monitoring bands, regularity-free tests, sequential independence and homogeneity tests, fat-tail-native quantile trackers. Two theory papers refused as padding, on the record. The FAIL boundary's first interrogation cohort is ready. | 9 HARVESTED ยท FAMILY 2 SWEPT ยท 59/300 |
| 8 | FAIL screen batch S-02: 10 pass, 1 duplicate out | The redundancy instruments faced the gates โ harsher this time, since an incumbent gauge already holds the slot: each passer named dependence the incumbent cannot see. One conditional-independence test went out at the door (slot already occupied; a boneyarded predecessor died there). Second handoff batch due next firing. | 10 PASS ยท 1 OUT ยท B-02 TRIGGERED |
| 9 | Feed batch B-02: the FAIL boundary's handoff | Ten redundancy instruments delivered cheapest-kill-first, with flagged borderline anchors and a four-cousins group note so the lab can kill efficiently. FAIL is the second boundary to complete the full harvest-screen-feed cycle; twenty entries now sit on the lab's shelf. | B-02 FED ยท FAIL CYCLE COMPLETE |
| 10 | DRO diagnostics + the anchor triad: 8 STABLE entries | Robustness instruments that put a number on how much shift a relationship survives, plus three econometric classics that guard the guards (anchor validity, strength, weak-anchor-robust inference). One raw-score entry pre-flagged; one near-duplicate refused. Families 12 and 20 swept. | 8 HARVESTED ยท FAMILIES 12+20 SWEPT ยท 67/300 |
| 11 | STABLE screen S-03: 13 pass, Neural Granger out on principle | Thirteen passed round two โ causal-structure machines, stopping-safe tests, robustness margins, the anchor triad. Neural Granger went out with a principle attached: an instrument whose answers change between training runs cannot be caught lying, while its deterministic sibling passed for exactly that reason. Third handoff fires next. | 13 PASS ยท 1 OUT ยท B-03 TRIGGERED |
| 12 | Feed batch B-03: STABLE's second handoff โ 33 fed | Thirteen more STABLE instruments delivered cheapest-kill-first with every screening flag traveling along โ exact-guarantee tests first, the anchor toolkit as a unit, known-risk entries last with risks in writing. Three batches, thirty-three instruments, every screened queue empty. | B-03 FED ยท 33 TOTAL ยท QUEUES EMPTY |
| 13 | EXPIRY screen S-04: 5 pass, honest shortfall | The live-decay monitors faced the gates: five passed (four with paper-native guarantees), the framework root went out on principle, and four scaffold-era entries were unscreenable โ the no-hearsay rule bites the campaign's own early rows. Five is below the handoff threshold; padding forbidden, shortfall reported with the refill path named. | 5 PASS ยท NO FEED ยท HONEST SHORTFALL |
| 14 | First FRAGILEโCONDITIONAL harvest: 5 entries, MRP resolved | Selection-stability measures (with the correlated-features fix), top-weighted ranking overlap answering the incumbent's design bar, region-resolved dependence, and the web-search MRP lead resolved to a real JPM 2025 paper. arXiv was down all firing โ three candidates wait rather than enter unverified. | 5 HARVESTED ยท 72/300 ยท OUTAGE HONORED |
| 15 | arXiv recovered: distance cousins complete + null backbone | The archive paid its debts โ kernel, transport, and regime-switching tests entered; three distribution-distance cousins now ship with a grouped-attack note. The stationary bootstrap landed as the citable, implemented backbone for the block-null every entry invokes. | 4 HARVESTED ยท NULL BACKBONE ยท 76/300 |
| 16 | FRAGILEโCOND screen S-05: 12 pass on the per-feature bar | The lucky-vs-conditional cohort was interrogated under a sharp principle: evidence must be about a feature, not the panel. Twelve cleared it; two elegant classics (shrinkage intensity, whole-matrix similarity) went out on exactly that principle, retained as context. Fourth handoff fires next โ into the lab's hungriest slot. | 12 PASS ยท 2 OUT ยท B-04 TRIGGERED |
| 17 | Feed batch B-04: into the lab's most-starved boundary | Twelve vetted lucky-vs-conditional instruments delivered to the slot the lab's own table marks hungriest (one trusted instrument today). Grouped-cousins notes, constructed-anchor flags, and two explicit beat-the-incumbent warnings travel with the batch. Forty-five instruments across four batches. | B-04 FED ยท 45 TOTAL ยท HUNGRIEST SLOT SERVED |
| 18 | Provenance debt cleared + null-machinery top-up | Four instruments unscreenable since day one got their citations resolved, unlocking EXPIRY's handoff path. The dependence-correction machinery every entry invokes (HAC, multiplier bootstrap) entered with sources and implementations, plus the offline changepoint segmenter. A wrong-identifier attempt and its recovery both on the ledger. | 4 RESOLVED ยท 3 ROWS ยท 79/300 |
| 19 | EXPIRY screen S-06: the debt-cleared cohort dies at the gate | Three of the four finally-cited instruments died at dedup โ stack duplicate, weaker sibling of a passed variant, self-predicted collision โ and the ensemble proved to be an adaptation system, not an instrument. Only the offline segmenter passed. Two honesty mechanisms composing as designed; the refill bar is now precise. | 1 PASS ยท 4 OUT ยท KILLS ARE WINS |
| 20 | EXPIRY refill under the native-guarantee bar: five mechanisms | Only mechanisms with printed guarantees or stack-absent machinery entered: ADWIN (false-alarm bounds as theorems), the 1954 CUSUM root, density-ratio detection, spectral subspace, matrix-profile segmentation. The always-valid p-value line refused as an ancestor of catalogued machinery. | 5 HARVESTED ยท 84/300 ยท S-07 โ B-05 NEXT |
| 21 | EXPIRY screen S-07: 5/5 pass โ the bar vindicated | Two firings ago this boundary went one-for-five; the massacre wrote the shopping list, the refill shopped against it, and all five passed. Lesson on the record: the screen's kills are the next harvest's specification. B-05 fires next. | 5/5 PASS ยท B-05 TRIGGERED |
| 22 | Feed batch B-05: the decay-watchers ship โ 56 fed | Eleven decay-watchers delivered with a baseline job description, M2-confirm flags, and a coordinate-don't-duplicate note on the lab's own designed-but-unbuilt monitor. Five batches, fifty-six instruments across the interface; regime-scoping is the last boundary never harvested for directly. | B-05 FED ยท 56 TOTAL ยท ONE BOUNDARY COLD |
| 23 | COND-scoping's first harvest: the last cold boundary warms | Seven regime-characterizing instruments entered โ tail-dependence limits, the extremogram (built for dependent extremes), crash-vs-rally extremal graphs, exceedance correlation. Two excellent ideas exited NO-IMPL with revisit notes. Sixteen of twenty families now swept; the four holdouts are named. | 7 ROWS ยท 91/300 ยท 16/20 SWEPT |
| 24 | COND-scoping screen S-08: 8/8 pass, gap of two | Second consecutive perfect screen โ boundary-scoped harvests kill weak candidates at harvest time. Two squads passed: the declaration layer (FWER/FDR) and the characterization layer (tail structure). Eight is two short of a handoff; the rulebook doesn't round up, and the refill is named. | 8/8 PASS ยท GAP OF 2 |
| 25 | Family 14 falls: all 20 families touched | The forecast-comparison classics entered, built for dependent errors from day one โ including the GiacominiโWhite conditional test, the regime-scoping question in native statistical form, and the set-valued Model Confidence Set. No blank continents left on the map. | 4 HARVESTED ยท ALL 20 TOUCHED ยท 95/300 |
| 26 | S-09: 4/4 pass, B-06 triggered | Third consecutive perfect screen from a boundary-scoped harvest โ and the first cohort with zero hand-built anchors. Twelve regime-scoping passers; the sixth handoff fires next, completing feed coverage of the whole status machine. | 4/4 PASS ยท B-06 TRIGGERED |
| 27 | B-06 published: every boundary has fed โ the milestone | The structural goal reached: 68 vetted instruments across six batches cover every boundary of the status machine, each with its verified paper, checked code, and honest flags. The declaration-layer front half is the first with zero hand-built anchors. The map is drawn; the depth phase begins. | B-06 FED ยท 68 TOTAL ยท MILESTONE |
| 28 | Catalog crosses 100 โ the code-gap finding | Entry #100 landed with a warning as the real product: three of five depth entries have no code anywhere. The finding is on the record โ paper frontier โซ implemented frontier โ and the strategy inverts to implemented-first discovery. Andrews' tests entered with the boneyard fence explicitly drawn. | 100/300 ยท CODE-GAP FINDING |
| 29 | Implemented-first works: 3/3 clean | The code-gap finding became method and paid for itself in one firing: the refutation battery (flagship library, updated yesterday), the E-value confounding-sensitivity measure, and J-PCMCI+ completing the causal-discovery quartet. Zero casualties; STABLE at 41 of 100. | 3/3 CLEAN ยท 103/300 |
| 30 | The sensitivity pair completes; firecrawl unreachable | Quantified hidden-confounder skepticism now covered in both regression and epidemiology units plus the empirical probe; the implication enumerator turns one grand claim into many falsifiable ones. The crawler failed its first live test โ five parked instruments wait, honestly recorded. | 2/2 CLEAN ยท 105/300 ยท CRAWLER DOWN |
| 31 | STABLE screen S-10: 7/7 โ the fourth perfect screen | The depth cohort passed intact; the refutation battery proved anchor-native by design and the implication enumerator now plugs into the in-house FDR layer โ instruments interlocking. Three passers short of the third STABLE handoff. | 7/7 PASS ยท B-07 THREE AWAY |
| 32 | Final harvest + operator stop: the loop parks at 108/300 | Three more STABLE instruments (implemented-first closes 8/8), then the stop directive โ recorded verbatim, schedule cancelled, firing shipped whole. Six batches and 68 instruments delivered across every boundary; the resume queue is preserved on the ledger. | 3/3 CLEAN ยท STOPPED CLEANLY |