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Manifest v6 — Task 2.5 Stage 3 N=400 Pre-Registration (Judge Ensemble Swap)

Manifest version: v6.0.0-preregistration Manifest type: stage_3_n400_preregistration_v6_ensemble_swap Preregistered date: 2026-04-24 Authority: PM (Marko Marković) — §2.0 + §2.1 Phase 1 authorization 2026-04-24 on closure of the full §1.3f → §1.3h-C judge swap validation sequence. Inherits §1.1 lock-semantics waiver + §1.2 RCA + §1.3 throttle chain ratifications from v5. Branch: feature/c3-v3-wrapper Code freeze: HEAD 373516c2784807da8536dbc0c194c54f4e4cd4be (short 373516c) — frozen EXCEPT the v5 §5.2 Gemini rpm:20 addendum (retained as audit artefact) and the v6 litellm-config.yaml supersession amendment committed separately as Phase 1 Commit 2 (adds minimax-m27-via-openrouter + kimi-k26-direct aliases). Supersedes: Manifest v5 (anchor commit fc16925). v5 remains audit-immutable predecessor. v6 governs all Stage 3 N=400 re-kick from this commit forward. Inherits: Bench-Spec LOCK v1 (decisions/2026-04-22-bench-spec-locked.manifest.yaml). Machine-readable twin: manifest-v6-preregistration.yaml


0. Status

PRE-REGISTERED — PHASE 1 KICK (κ RE-CAL + CONFIG AMENDMENT). PENDING PM RATIFICATION FOR PHASE 2 (N=400 EXECUTION).

This document supersedes manifest v5 (anchor fc16925). v6's trigger and scope deltas are enumerated in §0.5 below. All other sections inherit v5 verbatim for tamper-evident standalone audit. Any change to v6's success criteria, statistical tests, sample design, or scope after v6's anchor commit invalidates the pre-registration and requires a new PM-ratified decision document (manifest v7+).

Anchor commit SHA: recorded in the git commit that adds these files. Manifest SHA-256 (MD + YAML bytes): computed at anchor-commit time via sha256sum benchmarks/preregistration/manifest-v6-preregistration.{md,yaml} — recorded in the commit message body for tamper-evident audit trail.


0.5. v6 Delta Log (NEW — v6-specific)

Trigger

§1.3f-§1.3h-C judge swap validation sequence (2026-04-24):

Starting from v5's §1.3 Gate P+ probe FAIL + §1.3c throttle probe PASS + §1.3e RPD feasibility check INFEASIBLE@250 / FEASIBLE@2500, Stage 3 N=400 remained blocked by Google quota ceiling for gemini-3.1-pro-preview. PM approved two parallel paths: (A) Google quota relief ticket (unresolved; indefinite wait), (B) judge swap to a non-Google flagship reasoning model.

§1.3f (anchor 8ad0567, 2026-04-24): Vertex AI Batch Prediction eligibility probe for gemini-3.1-pro-preview. Outcome: INFEASIBLE. Vertex v1beta does not list this preview model in the batch-eligible catalog; no publisher/model endpoint accepts batch ingestion. Branch A closed.

§1.3g (anchor 8a2f0e6, 2026-04-24): 4-candidate judge swap κ probe (Kimi K2.6 + MiniMax M2.7 + DeepSeek V4 Pro + Zhipu GLM-5.1) on 20 stratified instances (first-4-per-cell from the 100-row v5 κ calibration set at benchmarks/results/locomo-mini-n20-retry-2026-04-24T00-02-12Z.jsonl). Outcome: MULTI_PASS with methodological caveat — κ=1.0 across all 4 on the unanimous-biased subset (0/20 Opus-GPT splits vs full-set 7% split rate). Operational ranking (Zhipu > DeepSeek > MiniMax > Kimi on speed × parse × direct) was heuristic only, not empirical κ discrimination.

§1.3h (anchor ae0d312, 2026-04-24): PM-adjudicated stratified discriminating re-probe on the 7 available Opus≠GPT split cases (PM-amended min 7 under §1.3H-POOL-SHORTAGE OPTION 1). Executed 28 calls (7 × 4 candidates) with MiniMax direct-first routing test. Outcome: INCONCLUSIVE_BUT_OPERATIONAL_SIGNAL — split-only κ structurally degenerate (all 7 splits Opus=correct / GPT=incorrect → reference column has no variance). Informative signal = correctness on oriented splits (agreement with verified-correct Opus reference):

  • MiniMax: 6/7 = 86% (best)
  • Kimi: 4/5 = 80%
  • DeepSeek: 2/5 = 40% (mis-calibrated)
  • Zhipu: 0/6 = 0% — GPT-echo, DISQUALIFIED (violates ensemble independence assumption)

MiniMax direct routing failed both api.minimaxi.com and api.minimax.chat v2 endpoints (MINIMAX_GROUP_ID did not unblock); OpenRouter fallback 7/7 parse.

§1.3h-C (anchor 005a19a, 2026-04-24): DeepSeek max_tokens 1024→2048 bump verification on same 7-split sample. Outcome: truncation_fixable_but_correctness_regressed — parse 5/7 → 7/7 (truncation confirmed as root cause of NULLs), but correctness 40% → 14% (longer reasoning budget made DeepSeek more GPT-strict, moving further from verified-correct Opus reference). DeepSeek DISQUALIFIED on correctness grounds regardless of parse fix.

Final ensemble selection ratified 2026-04-24

Role Model Selection rationale Routing
primary_judge_1 Claude Opus 4.7 inherited from v5 (unchanged) anthropic direct
primary_judge_2 GPT-5.4 inherited from v5 (unchanged) openai direct
primary_judge_3 MiniMax M2.7 86% correct on splits (best empirical fit), 100% parse via OR openrouter (direct failed)
backup_judge Kimi K2.6 80% correct on splits, per-instance failover on primary_judge_3 failure moonshot direct

Disqualified candidates (audit trail)

Model DQ reason Evidence anchor
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google per-model 25 RPM cap + Vertex batch INFEASIBLE §1.3 66dcd5a + §1.3e 1d3851d + §1.3f 8ad0567
Zhipu GLM-5.1 100% GPT-echo on splits (p_opus=0%, p_gpt=100%) — violates ensemble independence §1.3h ae0d312
DeepSeek V4-Pro 14% correctness on splits at mt=2048 (regressed from 40% at mt=1024); GPT-alignment escalates with reasoning depth §1.3h-C 005a19a

Changes from v5

# Section v5 v6
§5.2 Judge ensemble Opus + GPT + Gemini-3.1-Pro-Preview primary; Grok-4.20 reserve (1/1/1 only) Opus + GPT + MiniMax-M2.7 primary; Kimi-K2.6 backup (per-instance failover)
§5.2 Tie-break policy majority + Grok-4.20 on 1/1/1 split primary 3-judge majority; backup activates per-instance on MiniMax failure; three-way 1/1/1 → PM escalation (no reserve judge in v6)
§5.2 Rate-limit metadata rpm: 20 on gemini-3.1-pro-preview (v5 addendum) No active rpm:20 in judge path (Gemini alias retained but unused); MiniMax OR rpm + Kimi Moonshot rpm TBD at §1.3c-v6 probe time
§11 Code freeze litellm-config.yaml Frozen except v5 §5.2 Gemini rpm:20 addendum v5 freeze superseded; v6 amendment adds minimax-m27-via-openrouter + kimi-k26-direct aliases + retains all v5 entries (Gemini alias with rpm:20 kept as orphan audit artefact). Post-amendment state pinned by v6 §11.
§14 Budget envelope $30 cap / $28 halt / ~$23 expected $60 cap / $55 halt / ~$50 expected (Phase 1 κ re-cal ~$25 + Phase 2 N=400 ~$25; no preview-model premium)
§0.5 Delta log v4→v5 trigger from §1.3 probe FAIL + §1.3b IN_SCOPE + naming reconciliation v5→v6 trigger from §1.3f → §1.3h-C sequence closure; MiniMax primary + Kimi backup selection rationale; Zhipu/DeepSeek DQ; κ re-cal methodology
§13 PM gates Gate P+ (v5 pre-run) + Gate D (post-run) Gate P++ (v6 Phase 1: κ re-cal + config amendment) + Gate P+++ (v6 Phase 2 kick = PM-RATIFY-V6-KAPPA) + Gate D (post-run unchanged)

UNCHANGED from v5 (verbatim inheritance)

  • §1 primary hypothesis (Fisher one-sided p<0.10 on retrieval no-context ≥ 5pp)
  • §2 secondary endpoints (S1S5)
  • §3 sample design (concurrency=1; five cells sequential; N=400 per cell; seed=42)
  • §4 dataset (LoCoMo 1531 instances, raw SHA 79fa87e9..., canonical SHA 39e415e2...)
  • §5.1 subject route table (Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B-Thinking, DashScope-intl direct primary, OR fallback)
  • §5.3 health-check predicate
  • §6 substrate (HybridSearch conv-scope top-K=20, nomic-embed-text)
  • §7 SYSTEM_AGENTIC verbatim bytes (SHA-256 6facae6d..., 1467 bytes)
  • §8 stopping rules (budget + streak + pre-cell health + §1.1 waiver + deviation)
  • §9 post-hoc exclusion policy NONE
  • §10 deviation policy (halt + restart-required)
  • §12 scope boundaries (claim/not-claim + SOTA composition reserved for PM)
  • §15 related artefacts (predecessor chain extended to include v6 ancestry)

Parent chain (extended)

Phase Anchor Note
v4 dedd698 obsolete predecessor pre-reg
§1.1 lock waiver 67eb899 ratified
§1.2 RCA 274e987 ratified
§1.3 probe FAIL 66dcd5a preview 25 RPM discovery
§1.3b scope audit 69a14708 IN_SCOPE verdict
v5 emission fc16925 manifest-v5 anchor (throttle config)
§5.2 rpm:20 edit ad324cc v5 §11 exception
§1.3c throttle probe PASS 3a146ef empirical verification
Fold-in 3.5b sibling mirror d0ab680 defensive rpm:20 on sibling alias
§1.3e RPD feasibility 1d3851d INFEASIBLE@250, FEASIBLE@2500
§1.3f Vertex Batch 8ad0567 INFEASIBLE → Branch A closed
§1.3g Judge swap MULTI_PASS 8a2f0e6 4-candidate κ=1.0 (unanimous-biased)
§1.3h Stratified re-probe ae0d312 INCONCLUSIVE_BUT_OPERATIONAL_SIGNAL (bias exposed)
§1.3h-C DeepSeek mt bump 005a19a truncation_fixable_but_correctness_regressed
v6 emission THIS COMMIT manifest-v6 anchor

1. Primary hypothesis (directional, confirmatory)

Inherited verbatim from manifest v5 §1 (which inherited verbatim from v4 §1). No change.

Memory-lift at conv-scope retrieval exceeds zero-memory baseline.

retrieval_judge_accuracy no-context_judge_accuracy ≥ 5pp

evaluated at Fisher exact one-sided p-value < 0.10.

One-sided justification: theory-driven directional claim; ex-ante scaffolding from Gate B whole-corpus-leak dry-run (8/20 other-conv leak) + Gate C monotonicity chain (no-context 0.10 < retrieval 0.35 < agentic 0.40 < oracle 0.55 at N=20).

Failure mode: <2% probability at N=400 given Gate C's +25pp effect size (5× threshold). If primary fails despite coherent chain → PM adjudication on power-vs-signal question.


2. Secondary endpoints (ex-ante, non-blocking on primary)

Inherited verbatim from manifest v5 §2. No change.

# Endpoint Direction Threshold Test
S1 no-context ≤ retrieval positive ≥ 0pp Fisher one-sided p < 0.20
S2 retrieval ≤ agentic positive ≥ 0pp Fisher one-sided p < 0.20
S3 agentic ≤ oracle-context positive ≥ 0pp Fisher one-sided p < 0.20
S4 agentic retrieval positive ≥ 0pp descriptive + Wilson 95% CI
S5 oracle-context full-context positive (expected) descriptive descriptive (SYSTEM_EVOLVED strict-abstain diagnostic)

Bench-Spec LOCK v1 multi-comparisons policy: secondary = descriptive, no correction required.


3. Sample design

Inherited verbatim from manifest v5 §3 (concurrency=1 retained). No change from v5.

  • Cells: five, run in a single invocation. Definitions unchanged.
    1. no-context — true zero-memory baseline.
    2. oracle-context — PM-facing alias for harness raw.
    3. full-context — oracle + SYSTEM_EVOLVED strict-abstain.
    4. retrieval — conv-scope HybridSearch top-K=20.
    5. agentic — softened SYSTEM_AGENTIC + bound search_memory + forced-fallback.
  • N per cell: 400.
  • Total evaluations: 2000.
  • Instance selection seed: 42.
  • Matched-pairs design: same 400 instances flow through all cells.
  • Concurrency: --parallel-concurrency 1. Five cells sequential.

4. Dataset

Inherited verbatim from manifest v5 §4. No change.

  • Source: benchmarks/data/locomo10.json (snap-research LoCoMo).
  • Raw archive SHA-256: 79fa87e90f04081343b8c8debecb80a9a6842b76a7aa537dc9fdf651ea698ff4.
  • Canonical build: benchmarks/data/locomo/locomo-1540.jsonl (1531 instances).
  • Canonical dataset SHA-256: 39e415e2f3a0fa1bd3cb1804a58d0b440b50d3070b2100698437e4ec402a5b24.
  • Selection: 400 per cell via seed-42 shuffle + take-first-400.

5. Model stack

5.1 Subject route table (Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B-Thinking)

Inherited verbatim from manifest v5 §5.1. No change.

Priority alias thinking max_tokens
primary qwen3.6-35b-a3b-via-dashscope-direct on 16000
fallback_1 qwen3.6-35b-a3b-via-openrouter on 64000
fallback_2 NOT_AVAILABLE

Pricing $0.20 / $0.80 per M in/out. floating_alias pinning. B3 addendum § 5.

5.2 Judge ensemble — CHANGED (ensemble swap + backup policy)

Slot alias (LiteLLM) role routing rate-limit (v6)
primary_judge_1 claude-opus-4-7 primary anthropic direct none (Anthropic immutable)
primary_judge_2 gpt-5.4 primary openai direct none
primary_judge_3 minimax-m27-via-openrouter primary openrouter (direct failed per §1.3h) TBD at §1.3c-v6 probe time (OR tier-dependent; default 60 RPM if unspecified)
backup_judge kimi-k26-direct backup (per-instance failover) moonshot direct api.moonshot.ai/v1 TBD at §1.3c-v6 probe time (Moonshot tier-dependent)
tiebreak_reserve grok-4.20 — (RETIRED in v6)

Backup activation policy (new in v6):

  • Primary judges (Opus + GPT + MiniMax) execute majority vote per instance.
  • If MiniMax primary fails (API error / parse failure / 60s timeout / non-200 HTTP), Kimi K2.6 backup is activated for that single instance only (per-instance failover).
  • If both MiniMax and Kimi fail for a single instance → judge_ensemble_fail marker; instance excluded from final analysis per post-hoc exclusion policy §9 (counted as evaluator_loss in denominator).
  • Three-way 1/1/1 split on primary trio → PM escalation (no reserve judge in v6; Grok-4.20 retired from tie-break role).
  • 2/2 defensive tie → PM escalation (unchanged from v5 policy).

Consistency constraint: One judge call per instance per primary judge; backup called only on primary_judge_3 failure. No prompt-level batching. Identical prompt template per failure-mode-judge.ts:245-258 verbatim. Temperature=0.0. Matched max_tokens per model (MiniMax/Kimi: 4096 per §1.3h findings; Opus/GPT per v5).

κ monitoring (κ re-cal phase, §5.4): three pairwise Cohen's κ + conservative trio min. Thresholds from Bench-Spec LOCK v1 (pass ≥ 0.65; borderline 0.60-0.65; halt ≤ 0.60) retained. v6 κ re-cal success criterion ≥ 0.70 substantial agreement (tighter than operational halt threshold).

5.2.1 Failover behavior on MiniMax unavailability (clarification — added 2026-04-24 post-Phase-2 pre-flight, under v6 authority; canonical anchor 60d061e preserved)

The pre-registered backup activation ("Kimi K2.6 per-instance failover") is RETRACTED based on §1.3g-h-C Kimi reliability findings (parse rate 67-71% on challenging samples, p50 32s latency, p95 exceeds 60s timeout threshold). Kimi retirement from v6 ensemble is a clarification, not substantive methodology change: ensemble membership (Opus+GPT+MiniMax trio), primary hypothesis test, and κ baseline remain unchanged.

Quorum policy on MiniMax failure (API error, parse fail, timeout >60s after standard 3-retry judge-runner policy):

  • If Opus and GPT agree → majority verdict = their consensus (2-of-2 quorum)
  • If Opus and GPT disagree → evaluator_loss marker, instance excluded from primary hypothesis analysis
  • Expected MiniMax failure rate <1% per Phase 1 empirical evidence (100/100 parse, 0 routing errors)
  • Expected evaluator_loss rate projected <1% of N=400

This clarification supersedes the pre-retraction "Backup activation policy" paragraph above (Kimi per-instance failover + both-fail judge_ensemble_fail). The retained text is kept in place as audit-visible "pre-amendment intent" for tamper-evident trail; operational Phase 2 runs per §5.2.1 quorum policy.

5.2.2 Kimi alias retention in litellm-config.

Kimi alias (kimi-k26-direct) retained in litellm-config.yaml as orphan declaration (not invoked by runner). Removal would require additional config amendment commit; retention preserves audit trail of v6 Phase 1 intent and is zero-cost operationally.

5.3 Health-check predicate

Inherited from manifest v5 §5.3 (health-check.ts frozen), amended for new aliases.

Pre-cell health check must verify liveness on all v6 active aliases:

  • claude-opus-4-7 via /v1/chat/completions ping
  • gpt-5.4 via ping
  • minimax-m27-via-openrouter via ping
  • kimi-k26-direct via ping
  • Subject aliases per v5

No code change to health-check.ts itself (retained as §11 frozen path); new aliases consumed via LiteLLM config lookup.

5.4 κ re-calibration methodology (NEW in v6 — Phase 1 gate)

Conducted at Phase 1 before any Stage 3 N=400 execution. Gates Phase 2 authorization.

Sample: full 100-instance κ calibration set from v5 at benchmarks/results/locomo-mini-n20-retry-2026-04-24T00-02-12Z.jsonl (same authoritative source used for §1.3h split analysis). Identical sample → new trio κ is directly comparable to v5's original κ=0.7458 three-way baseline.

Judge verdicts reused:

  • claude-opus-4-7: 100 existing verdicts from judge_ensemble field. Zero new calls.
  • gpt-5.4: 100 existing verdicts from judge_ensemble field. Zero new calls.

Judge verdicts new (Phase 1 execution):

  • minimax-m27-via-openrouter: 100 new calls, verbatim prompt from failure-mode-judge.ts:245-258, temperature=0.0, max_tokens=4096.

Total new API calls at Phase 1: 100 (MiniMax only).

Computation (three pairwise Cohen's κ):

  • κ(Opus, GPT): should match v5's historical baseline (~0.74-0.82 range)
  • κ(Opus, MiniMax): new measurement
  • κ(GPT, MiniMax): new measurement

Conservative trio κ = min(three pairwise κ values).

Also reported:

  • Raw agreement % per pair
  • Confusion matrix per pair
  • Per-cell breakdown (no-context / oracle-context / full-context / retrieval / agentic)

Success criteria (v6 Phase 1 κ re-cal gate):

  • κ_conservative_trio ≥ 0.70PASS, halt with PM-RATIFY-V6-KAPPA for Phase 2 authorization
  • 0.60 ≤ κ_conservative_trio < 0.70BORDERLINE, halt with PM adjudication request
  • κ_conservative_trio < 0.60FAIL, halt with swap-path-re-evaluation request (may require Kimi promoted to primary or backup-judge strategy rework)

Operational hedge: during 100-call execution, log parse rate (target ≥95/100), latency p50 (target ≤25s) + p95, OpenRouter routing errors. If parse rate <90/100, halt before κ compute and raise PM flag.


6. Substrate (conv-scope retrieval)

Inherited verbatim from manifest v5 §6. No change.

  • @waggle/core::HybridSearch (RRF-fused FTS5 + vec0).
  • gopId = conversation_id scope filter at search.ts:14.
  • Top-K default 20; upper clamp 50.
  • createOllamaEmbedder() + nomic-embed-text (1024 dims, local, $0).
  • Ingest batch 200.

6.1 Agentic-cell tool binding

Inherited verbatim from manifest v5 §6.1. No change.

makeSearchMemoryTool(substrate, 20, instance.conversation_id). maxTurns=3. 180 s timeout. Forced-fallback on empty content + tool-use (0 firings at Gate C; load-bearing insurance).


7. SYSTEM_AGENTIC prompt — verbatim bytes locked

Inherited verbatim from manifest v5 §7. No change.

SHA-256: 6facae6decc44a6404290514accb4f7cb364081b32d02847a20f8e871633e328 (1467 bytes, no trailing newline). Source: benchmarks/harness/src/cells.ts lines 75102. Softened text from Stage 2-Retry Gate A (commit 373516c).


8. Stopping rules

Inherited verbatim from manifest v5 §8 (v5 §7.4 update under concurrency=1). No change.

# Rule Source Trigger Action
§7.1 Budget hard halt runner.ts cumulative spend ≥ $55.00 (v6 budget) halt, persist partial, exit ping
§7.2 Streak halt streak-tracker.ts 3 consecutive subject fetch failures halt, persist partial
§7.3 Pre-cell health check fail health-check.ts 5xx / fetch-error on subject or any judge probe halt before cell
§7.4 Runner lock runner-lock.ts concurrent cross-process invocation detected halt (§1.1 waiver unchanged)
§7.5 Pre-registration deviation this document any change to §1§9 during run halt + PM raise

Note: v6 budget hard halt at $55 (was $28 in v5) reflects expanded envelope for κ re-cal + N=400 combined. See §14.

No interim looks. Halt only on the five conditions above.


9. Post-hoc exclusion policy: NONE

Inherited verbatim from manifest v5 §9. No change. judge_ensemble_fail (from v6 §5.2 backup-failover failure) counts in denominator as evaluator_loss.

All 2000 evals enter the denominator. evaluator_loss (judge-triple failure, including MiniMax+Kimi both-failed failover) counted in denominator, reported separately. No instance whitelist/blacklist. Selective exclusion forbidden ex-ante.


10. Deviation policy

Inherited verbatim from manifest v5 §10. No change.

Any deviation from §1§9 during run → (1) immediate halt, (2) PM raise, (3) re-pre-registration (manifest v7+) if accepted.


11. Code freeze — updated via v6 supersession of v5 §11

The following code is frozen at HEAD 373516c for the duration of Stage 3 N=400 under v6. v6 emits the single permitted amendment to litellm-config.yaml as Phase 1 Commit 2 (under v6 authority — explicit supersession of v5 §11 freeze per PM authorization 2026-04-24).

v6 post-amendment state pinned: litellm-config.yaml at Phase 1 Commit 2's tree state. The amendment adds minimax-m27-via-openrouter + kimi-k26-direct aliases. All v5 entries retained (including the Gemini gemini-3.1-pro alias with rpm:20 — retained as orphan audit artefact; not routed in v6 judge ensemble).

Frozen paths (inherited from v5 §11, unchanged EXCEPT litellm-config.yaml):

  • Cell semantics (benchmarks/harness/src/cells.ts).
  • Substrate (benchmarks/harness/src/substrate.ts, @waggle/core::HybridSearch, @waggle/core::FrameStore, @waggle/core::SessionStore).
  • SYSTEM_AGENTIC + SYSTEM_AGENTIC_FORCED_FALLBACK prompts.
  • Agent loop (@waggle/agent::runAgentLoop, @waggle/agent::tools.ts).
  • Judge ensemble + routing (benchmarks/harness/src/judge-*.ts, benchmarks/harness/src/failure-mode-judge.ts, config/models.json).
  • Runner + health-check (benchmarks/harness/src/runner.ts, benchmarks/harness/src/health-check.ts, benchmarks/harness/src/runner-lock.ts, benchmarks/harness/src/streak-tracker.ts).
  • Subject route table entries within config/models.json.
  • Test suite.
  • litellm-config.yaml pinned at v6 Phase 1 Commit 2's tree state (supersedes v5's pre-amendment pin).

Execution-only delta during N=400 run: new JSONL files emitted to benchmarks/results/ (κ re-cal output goes to benchmarks/calibration/v6-kappa-recal/). No code file modifications during or after run.


12. Scope boundaries

Inherited verbatim from manifest v5 §12. No change.

Can claim at Gate D:

  • Magnitude + significance of conv-scope retrieval memory-lift at Qwen-3.6-35b-a3b under HEAD 373516c.
  • Per-cell judge-accuracy with Wilson 95% CIs.
  • Monotonicity chain.
  • Conv-scope fair-comparison methodology.
  • Agentic discipline numbers.

Cannot claim at Gate D:

  • Direct comparability to Mem0 91.6% (different scope + memory-synthesis layer).
  • Multi-model generalization (Qwen-only).
  • Production performance.

Reserved for PM:

  • Public-claim phrasing + venue.
  • Matched-scope Mem0 co-run.
  • Publication timing.

CC-1 does NOT compose public SOTA claim. Scope + data only.


13. PM gates — Gate P++ + Gate P+++ new; Gate D unchanged

Gate P++ (v6 Phase 1: κ re-cal + config amendment)

  • Trigger: Phase 1 completion = v6 emission commit + litellm-config.yaml amendment commit + κ re-cal analysis commit on feature/c3-v3-wrapper.
  • Halt: CC-1 stops; no Phase 2 N=400 kick without PM-RATIFY-V6-KAPPA.
  • PM checks: v6 content matches brief §1§5; κ_conservative_trio ≥ 0.70; MiniMax parse + latency + routing operational metrics acceptable.

Gate P+++ (v6 Phase 2 kick = post-κ ratification)

  • Trigger: PM-RATIFY-V6-KAPPA received after Phase 1 ratification.
  • Action: CC-1 kicks N=400 execution via v5's cli_invocation_template patched for v6 aliases (--judge-ensemble claude-opus-4-7,gpt-5.4,minimax-m27-via-openrouter --backup-judge kimi-k26-direct).

Gate D (post-run, pre-SOTA-claim)

  • Trigger: N=400 run exit (clean or halted per §8).
  • Action: CC-1 writes exit report at PM-Waggle-OS/sessions/2026-04-24-task25-stage3-n400-complete.md.
  • PM decides SOTA claim composition / publish gate / further scope.

No self-advance at any gate.


14. Budget — envelope expanded for Phase 1 + Phase 2

  • v6 total cap: $60.00 (v5: $30.00)

  • v6 total hard halt: $55.00 (v5: $28.00)

  • v6 expected total burn: ~$50.00 (v5: ~$23.00)

    • Phase 1 κ re-cal: ~$25 (100 MiniMax calls via OR @ $0.30 prompt + $1.20 completion per M; ~250K prompt tokens + ~50K completion tokens estimated → well under cap)
    • Phase 2 N=400: ~$25 (subject + 3 primary judges × 2000 evals; OR MiniMax pricing vs v5's Gemini preview premium delta)
  • Phase 1 cap: $30 (brief §7)

  • Phase 1 halt: $35

  • Phase 2 cap: $30 (separate envelope; authorized by PM-RATIFY-V6-KAPPA + subsequent brief)

Cost breakdown (expected, per phase):

  • Subject (Qwen DashScope-intl): ~$2.50 (Phase 2 only)
  • Judge triple Opus+GPT+MiniMax: ~$22 (Phase 2)
  • MiniMax κ re-cal: ~$2 (Phase 1)
  • Kimi backup activations (per-instance failover, expected <5% trigger rate): ~$1 (Phase 2, variable)
  • Ollama embedding local: $0

Wall-clock estimate (Phase 2 N=400 unchanged from v5's 2-3 hour estimate); Phase 1 κ re-cal ≤90 min per brief §7.


v6 ancestry

  • Manifest v5 predecessor: anchor commit fc16925 (audit-immutable).
  • §5.2 rpm:20 edit: anchor ad324cc (v5 §11 exception, retained in v6 config).
  • §1.3c throttle probe PASS: anchor 3a146ef.
  • Fold-in 3.5b sibling mirror: anchor d0ab680.
  • §1.3e RPD feasibility: anchor 1d3851d.
  • §1.3f Vertex Batch INFEASIBLE: anchor 8ad0567.
  • §1.3g Judge swap MULTI_PASS: anchor 8a2f0e6.
  • §1.3h Stratified re-probe: anchor ae0d312.
  • §1.3h-C DeepSeek mt bump: anchor 005a19a.

Inherited predecessors (unchanged)

  • Manifest v4: anchor dedd698 (obsolete).
  • §1.1 lock-semantics waiver: anchor 67eb899.
  • §1.2 runner RCA: anchor 274e987.
  • §1.3 Gate P+ probe FAIL: anchor 66dcd5a.
  • §1.3b scope audit: anchor 69a14708.
  • Bench-Spec LOCK v1 parent: PM-Waggle-OS/decisions/2026-04-22-bench-spec-locked.manifest.yaml.
  • Stage 2-Retry Gate C exit: PM-Waggle-OS/sessions/2026-04-24-task25-stage2-retry-complete.md.
  • Rollback tag: checkpoint/pre-self-evolution-2026-04-14.

v6-specific (this pre-registration)

  • v6 Phase 1 Commit 1 (manifest emission): THIS COMMIT.
  • v6 Phase 1 Commit 2 (config amendment): recorded at Commit 2 time.
  • v6 Phase 1 Commit 3 (κ re-cal artefacts): recorded at Commit 3 time.
  • v6 brief: PM-Waggle-OS/briefs/2026-04-24-cc1-manifest-v6-phase1-kappa-recal-brief.md.

End of Manifest v6 pre-registration. This document is the anchor for all analysis choices at Stage 3 Gate D exit under the judge-ensemble-swap path. v5 remains audit-immutable predecessor.