{
 "tm": "1RB0RA_1RC1RF_1LD0LC_1RA1LE_1RA0LC_---0RD",
 "bucket_reason": "Med confidence after the funded deepen stage: every regime is mapped and safe in tests, but three events have only set-valued macro rules, so proof work needs a call.",
 "question": "Spend one more stage deriving exact block rules for the sweep, the glider absorption and the MS overflow before proof.md, start proof.md now, or park?",
 "options": [
  {
   "id": "exact_rules",
   "label": "One stage (2 h): exact rules for the sweep, the absorption and the overflow",
   "consequence": "Enumerate short MS words and throttle states with two-sided context. Fit each of the three events as a finite rule (a signal sweeping a block word), plus the pause-mode counter as a per-trip rule, and validate each on random instances. Then proof.md, case-splitting on ordinary vs one glider, with K' in {K, K-1} and K = -1 fixed. Stop rule: if one event still has no exact rule after 2 h, write proof.md with it as a validated lemma and flag the gap."
  },
  {
   "id": "proof_now",
   "label": "Start proof.md now",
   "consequence": "Write the informal proof around the validated macro rules and work out the exact rules inside it. This is faster if they turn out simple, but proof.md starts with three lemmas that are only validated, not derived."
  },
  {
   "id": "park",
   "label": "Park",
   "consequence": "No spend. It leaves a machine with a full regime map and 2,863 constructed runs without a halt."
  }
 ],
 "recommended": "exact_rules",
 "rationale": [
  "Every regime is mapped and each tested ending keeps K >= -1 (K = -1 fixed), so the trigger does not matter.",
  "The sweep, absorption and MS overflow have only set-valued macro rules; a proof needs them exact.",
  "Each is a signal sweeping a short block word, so small exhaustive enumeration should settle them."
 ],
 "evidence": [
  {
   "kind": "figure",
   "text": "Fig 3: the m=14 creep. The thin front is the glider that the ending sweep leaves behind.",
   "href": "img/creep_special_1.487e8.png"
  },
  {
   "kind": "fact",
   "text": "Ending sweep on 1,700 random MS words: 0 halts, all with a clean middle after; every creep was a single glider.",
   "href": "deepen.json"
  },
  {
   "kind": "fact",
   "text": "Absorption over all 363 throttle states with K = 0..4: K stays in 307, drops by one in 56, never drops for K <= 1.",
   "href": "data/funded/absorbgrid_K4.jsonl"
  },
  {
   "kind": "fact",
   "text": "Pause rules PI/PM: 23,495/23,495 trips on random starts. MS-overflow probes for the m ~ 236 regime: 256 runs, 0 halts.",
   "href": "notes.md"
  }
 ],
 "effort_if_yes": "One stage of at most 2 h, with light compute (each constructed run is a few million steps in the C runner). If it passes, proof.md is the next stage, then a TM31-style formalization over several stages.",
 "updated": "2026-10-10",
 "answer": {
  "option": "exact_rules",
  "note": "auto-applied: Claude's recommendation, under Dennis's standing instruction 'do your recommendations and continuously orchestrate' (2026-10-10, while he was at lunch). Override any time.",
  "date": "2026-10-10"
 }
}