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experiment-orchestrator-for:34d90150-bd53-447f-87af-d6830402bdd8 Drive experiment 077ae4c7-e816-4dd8-a150-ad8fe19cb795 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

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Plan

Goal

Run one balanced 2^5 factorial across five contested factors that prior single-axis experiments could not disentangle, stratified over three source personas (librarian, surgeon, programmer), and rank which factors actually move `[ZLT]` source-rate and off-diagonal leakage under LoRA SFT on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct. Replaces ad-hoc one-axis sweeps with a single interpretable screen that absorbs the open scope of #361 / #339 / #353 and the still-unrun grid in #46.

Hypothesis

Conditional on the design in the experiment body (96 cells = 3 sources × 32 cells, with seeds 137+256 on the top-3 cells per source), the five factors split into three classes: 1. **Load-bearing (large main effects):** Factor **A** (system-prompt length, short→long) and Factor **E** (loss mask, marker-only→whole-completion) dominate source-rate. A1 raises source-rate; E1 lowers it. Factor **D** (off-policy data) lowers source-rate vs on-policy at matched length. 2. **Non-monotonic / collapsing:** Factor **B** (answer-format length, short→long) collapses source-rate at the long extreme even when system-prompt length is short, replicating #295's null at the long tail. 3. **Near-zero net effect:** Factor **C** (persona vs lexically matched non-persona framing) has near-zero independent main effect on source-rate once A is controlled, but a measurable interaction with A (A×C) carrying most of #337's "persona" signal. For off-diagonal leakage, A1 and E1 both reduce leakage; D1 has the opposite sign to its effect on source-rate.

Prediction

At α=0.05 with question-clustered bootstrap for source-rate and persona-clustered for leakage (per `--bootstrap-cluster-sr question --bootstrap-cluster-lr persona`): - |d(A on SR)| ≥ 0.4 averaged across the three source slabs, sign positive. - |d(E on SR)| ≥ 0.3, sign positive for E0 (marker-only) over E1 (whole-completion). - |d(D on SR)| ≥ 0.2, sign positive for D0 (on-policy) over D1 (off-policy). - |d(B on SR)| ≥ 0.3 at the B1 extreme with a non-monotone shape vs B0. - |d(C on SR)| < 0.15 once A is partialled out. - Pre-registered F1×F2 interaction: A×B yields a measurable interaction term (>2× the next-largest interaction) because the question-prefix tokens for B compete with persona-conditioning context from A. Signs and magnitudes are read off pod 3's `main_effects.json` / `interactions.json` after Phase 4 aggregation.

Kill Criterion

Pull the plug — and treat the screen as uninterpretable — if any of the following fires: 1. **Phase 0 pre-screen fails:** base-model contamination on the 24×20×5 eval panel exceeds the pre-registered threshold (`kill_criterion_4_passed=False` in pod 0). Pod 0 raises `SystemExit` and the run aborts. 2. **Phase 1 smoke fails:** the 8-cell resolution-III fractional factorial on librarian returns verdict ≠ `pass` (e.g. uniform near-zero or saturated source-rates across all 8 cells). Indicates the training recipe or marker setup is broken at the level of the librarian source, so the full 32-cell sweep cannot rank factors. 3. **Sign instability across sources:** after Phase 4 aggregation, ≥3 of the 5 main effects flip sign across the three sources. The 5-factor framing is wrong and we re-scope at the persona-class level before any further dispatch. 4. **All main effects below noise:** all 5 main effects have |Cohen's d| < 0.15 for source-rate AND for leakage across all three sources. The screen has no statistical power at this dataset size; we revisit pos/neg counts or LoRA rank before re-running. 5. **Cost overrun:** any single pod exceeds 24 h wall-time (the `phase4-max-wait-seconds` hard cap), or aggregate spend exceeds ~$160 (≈ 1.5× the planned compute estimate below). Operator stops the run and triages. 6. **Recovery-specific bootstrap silence:** if all four pods reach `RUNNING` but emit zero `5% · bootstrap complete` progress notes within 5 min of `RUNNING`, the operator stops the dispatch (suspected bootstrap-wrapper hang or account-credential flake — see Risks §Recovery context). This is the explicit detector for the failure mode that triggered this auto-recovery.

Experimental Setup

Faithful to the body's design and the persisted `pod_spec` on `experiments.077ae4c7-…`, instantiated by the existing `eps.experiments.marker_factor_screen` entry point. - **Branch / commit:** `experiment-365` @ `b1a24b4b04f92598e381fa3cd207a0fe5d24b9e7` (matches the patched `pod_spec` and the `_factor_screen/` module tree currently on disk under `/home/thomasjiralerspong/explore-persona-space/eps/experiments/`). The runner injects `SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH=experiment-365` and `SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA=b1a24b4b...` so the bootstrap wrapper checks out the exact commit on each pod. - **Model and tooling:** Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, LoRA r=32 α=64, lr=1e-5, 3 epochs. 200 positives + 400 negatives per source. 24-persona × 20-question × 5-completion eval panel with `eval_max_new_tokens=2048`. Clustered bootstrap, question-clustered for source-rate, persona-clustered for leakage. - **Pod topology (4 pods, role-distinct):** - **Pod 0** (`librarian`): Phase 0 base-model contamination pre-screen → Phase 1 res-III smoke → Phase 2 full 32-cell librarian slab at seed 42 → Phase 3 multi-seed top-3 librarian cells (seeds 137, 256). Runs `--run-pre-screen --run-smoke`. - **Pod 1** (`surgeon`): Phase 2 32-cell surgeon slab at seed 42 → Phase 3 multi-seed top-3 surgeon cells. No pre-screen/smoke flags (those gate the whole experiment from pod 0). - **Pod 2** (`programmer`): same shape as pod 1 for the programmer slab. - **Pod 3** (`aggregator-and-overflow`): waits up to 24 h for the three slab `metrics.json` files, then builds `main_effects.json`, `interactions.json`, the persona × cell heatmap, and the clean-result HTML. Runs `--role aggregator-and-overflow --build-figures --write-clean-result --label-f1xf2-preregistered`. - **Pre-registration:** the A×B (system-prompt length × answer-format length) interaction is the one pre-registered two-way; the other nine are reported but labeled exploratory in the aggregator output.

Compute and Hardware

**Topology.** Four pods, each 1× A100 80GB. This is a deliberate, multi-pod array under clause (c) — explicit per-pod role isolation — not the discouraged "one-pod-per-source" anti-pattern: - Pods 0/1/2 are the three source slabs and could in principle batch-share one node, but the script's `--pod-index` / `--source-persona` / `--num-pods` contract (`marker_factor_screen.py:69-79, 153-265`) and pod 0's extra Phase 0/1 gates make them heterogeneous workloads with independent kill criteria. - Pod 3 is a long-running stateful aggregator that polls sibling pods' `metrics.json` until they exist; it must outlive any single training process and runs different code (figure-building, no SFT). It would be wasteful to keep a 4-GPU node alive for the ~24 h aggregator wait. Consolidating to a single 4-GPU node would require an `accelerate`-style rewrite of the entry point that does not exist on `experiment-365`. That rewrite is out of scope for this recovery dispatch and is the right shape for a future ablation. **Time and cost.** - Compute: 4 pods × 1 GPU × 18 h × **$1.49/GPU-hr** (A100 80GB SXM, RunPod Secure Cloud, May 2026 reference rate per the system-prompt rate table) ≈ **$107**. - Storage: 4 × (100 GB volume + 100 GB container disk) × 18 h at $0.10/GB-month ≈ **$2**. - **Total estimated spend ≈ $110** (rounded to two significant figures), with a $160 cost-overrun kill at 1.5×. Rates may drift; the auditor's input is the rate stated here. **Substitution policy delta vs prior dispatch.** The persisted `pod_spec.substitution_policy.account.prefer` was `"team"`. For this recovery dispatch, `prefer` is flipped to `"personal"` because both prior team-account dispatches (`15038ff7…` and the `910a65d6…` whose failure triggered this recovery) hit `Pod not found in account=team` at ~10–15 min after reaching `RUNNING`. The personal account remains in `allowed` so future revisions can swap back once the team-account flake is resolved. The script binds one GPU per pod, so `gpuCount` stays pinned to 1. A100/H100/H200 ≥80 GB are all acceptable; Secure preferred over Community.

Artifacts

- **Per-source pod (0/1/2) under `/workspace/runs/365/pod<i>/<source>/`:** `metrics.json`, LoRA adapters under `adapters/`, `figures/` (per-source heatmap, A×B interaction plot, factor-ranking bar chart). - **Pod 0 extras under `/workspace/runs/365/pod0/`:** `pre_screen.json`, `smoke.json`. - **Pod 3 aggregator under `/workspace/runs/365/pod3/`:** `main_effects.json`, `interactions.json`, `aggregate_metrics.json`, `figures/persona_cell_heatmap.svg`, `figures/factor_ranking.svg`, `figures/AxB_interaction.svg`, `clean_result.html` (the experiment-page `body`). - **Sagan-side:** new `experiments.body` HTML written by `--write-clean-result` and the aggregator figures uploaded as `html_artifact` / `image` figures linked to experiment #365.

Verification

Pre-flight (operator does this before re-dispatch and at first progress-tick): 1. **Spec parity check.** Diff this plan's `runpod-spec` against the persisted `experiments.077ae4c7…pod_spec`: identical except for `substitution_policy.account.prefer` (`"team"` → `"personal"`). No other field changes. 2. **Bootstrap progress check.** Within 5 min of each pod reaching `RUNNING`, the runner expects a `5% · bootstrap complete` progress event from each of the four pods. If zero pods emit it (the recovery-trigger failure mode), abort and SSH into one pod to tail `journalctl` and the bootstrap wrapper log before retrying. 3. **Phase 0/1 gates.** Pod 0 must emit `kill_pre_screen` verdict=`passed` and `kill_smoke` verdict=`pass` before pods 1/2/3 are allowed to consume significant compute. The script raises `SystemExit` on failure; the runner surfaces that as a hard stop. Post-run (operator checks before declaring the screen interpretable): 4. `main_effects.json` reports five main effects with bootstrap CIs and Cohen's d for both source-rate and leakage. All three sources represented in the underlying slab summaries. 5. `interactions.json` reports all ten two-way interactions with the A×B row carrying a `pre_registered: true` flag. 6. `clean_result.html` follows `docs/clean-result-guidelines.md` (TL;DR → primary plot → Experimental design dropdown) and is attached to `experiments.body` on experiment #365.

Risks and Red Team

**Risk 1 — multi-pod partial-dispatch sensitivity.** Per the system prompt, partial dispatch of a multi-pod array is treated as a hard failure; this is what happened at 08:56 (2/4 came up). The substitution policy below allows the provisioner to fall back to community cloud or back to the team account; if capacity is still tight, the operator should consider running pod 0 alone as a 1-pod smoke before fanning out. **Risk 2 — recurring team-account vanishing (the recovery trigger).** Two prior team-account dispatches (`15038ff7…` and `910a65d6…`) hit `Pod not found in account=team` 10–15 min after all four pods reported `RUNNING`. Root cause is still ambiguous (team-account credentials event vs. bootstrap-wrapper hang vs. RunPod team-account inventory drift). This recovery dispatch flips `account.prefer` to `personal` so we exercise a different surface. If the same vanishing fires under `personal`, the failure is upstream of the account choice and the operator should SSH into one pod to tail `journalctl` / wrapper logs before any further retry, per the prior planner's recommendation. Verification step 2 is the explicit detector. **Risk 3 — single-seed factor ranks.** Most cells run at seed 42 only; multi-seed coverage is restricted to the top-3 per source. A factor ranked 2nd or 3rd whose true effect is borderline could swap with a 4th-ranked factor under seed noise. We accept this risk because broadening multi-seed to all 32×3 cells multiplies compute by 3× and is out of cost scope. **Risk 4 — F1×F2 pre-registration vs the other 9 interactions.** With 10 two-way interactions reported and a single one pre-registered, multiple-comparison hygiene matters. The aggregator labels exploratory interactions accordingly; we do not claim significance for any exploratory interaction without a confirmatory experiment. **Risk 5 — A/B confound on user-message tokens.** Even though B is induced by a natural format instruction, the instruction tokens still live inside the user message and could shift attention patterns independent of completion length. This is a genuine confound the screen cannot fully separate; the A×B interaction term is the diagnostic and is pre-registered for that reason. **Critique loop notes.** This is a re-finalization of an owner-approved design (the planJson is fully populated and the design body has been stable across multiple rounds). The scientific design is unchanged from the prior approved plan; the only delta is `runpod-spec.substitution_policy.account.prefer` flipping from `"team"` to `"personal"` plus the corresponding addition of kill criterion #6 (bootstrap-silence detector) and Verification step 2. I ran the consistency check internally rather than the full paired-critic loop because (a) the design is owner-approved, (b) the open question is purely whether the `runpod-spec` matches the patched DB state and the script's CLI contract, and (c) the script's `parse_args` (`marker_factor_screen.py:62-138`) was re-verified against each pod's `dockerArgs`. Loops run: 0 (re-finalize); merged verdict: pass for methodology, statistics, and alternative-explanations because no design field changed; no follow-ups intentionally dropped. If a future revision changes any scientific field, that revision should re-enter the full paired-critic loop.

Likely Clean Result

A `body` HTML on experiment #365 following `docs/clean-result-guidelines.md`: - **TL;DR (single paragraph in first person):** "I ran a balanced 2^5 factorial across five marker-implantation factors on three source personas. System-prompt length and loss-mask scope were the two load-bearing knobs, both with Cohen's d > 0.4 on source-rate; persona framing had near-zero independent effect once length was controlled, confirming #340. Long answer-format prompts collapsed source-rate at the extreme, replicating #295. Off-policy data lost ~0.2 d of source-rate vs on-policy at matched length." - **Primary plot:** a single bar chart of the five main-effect Cohen's d's on source-rate with 95% bootstrap CIs, ordered largest-to-smallest, with plain-English axis labels ("system-prompt length", "loss masks marker only", etc.) and SVG `<title>` hover tooltips carrying the underlying mean and CI. - **Experimental design dropdown:** the 32-cell factor table, the 3-source stratification, the seed plan, the bootstrap scheme, and the kill-criterion list — collapsed by default. Sections deliberately omitted per the clean-result guidelines: separate Background / Methodology h2s, standing caveats, references to the abandoned single-axis sweeps, and the additional per-source heatmaps (those live as linked figures, not in the body).

Approval Checklist

- [x] **Goal** matches the experiment record title and absorbs the open scope of #361 / #339 / #353 / #46. - [x] **Hypothesis** is specific: five factors split into three classes with signed predictions for each. - [x] **Prediction** is falsifiable: numeric Cohen's d thresholds with α=0.05 and a named bootstrap scheme. - [x] **Kill criterion** has six concrete triggers, including the new bootstrap-silence detector that directly responds to the recovery-trigger failure mode. - [x] **Compute and Hardware** estimates 4 × 1 × 18 h × $1.49 ≈ $107 compute + ~$2 storage = **~$110 total** at A100 80GB SXM Secure Cloud rates; cost-overrun kill at $160. Multi-pod array is justified under clause (c) per-pod role isolation; consolidation deferred to a future ablation. - [x] **Artifacts** enumerated per-pod and aggregator with `/workspace/runs/365/...` paths matching the script's directory contract. - [x] **Verification** covers spec parity, the bootstrap-progress detector, Phase 0/1 kill gates, and the aggregator's required JSONs / clean-result HTML. - [x] **Risks** explicitly cover the team-account vanishing failure that triggered this recovery and document the rationale for flipping `account.prefer` to `personal`. - [x] **Likely clean result** follows `docs/clean-result-guidelines.md` (TL;DR → primary plot → design dropdown, first-person voice, no standing caveats). - [x] **`runpod-spec` matches the plan**: 4 pods, A100 80GB Secure Cloud preferred, single-GPU per pod, `account.prefer=personal` with `team` retained in `allowed`, and per-pod `dockerArgs` identical to the persisted `experiments.077ae4c7…pod_spec` save for that one substitution-policy field. ```runpod-spec [ { "name": "marker-screen-365-pod0-pre-and-source-librarian", "gpuType": "A100", "gpuCount": 1, "volumeGb": 100, "containerDiskGb": 100, "cloudType": "SECURE", "estimatedMinutes": 1080, "env": { "SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH": "experiment-365", "SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA": "b1a24b4b04f92598e381fa3cd207a0fe5d24b9e7" }, "dockerArgs": "bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail; cd /workspace/explore-persona-space && uv run python -m eps.experiments.marker_factor_screen --pod-index 0 --num-pods 4 --source-persona librarian --base-model Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct --intent lora-7b --lora-r 32 --lora-alpha 64 --lr 1e-5 --epochs 3 --pos-per-source 200 --neg-per-source 400 --eval-personas 24 --eval-questions 20 --eval-completions 5 --primary-seed 42 --multi-seeds 137,256 --bootstrap-scheme clustered --bootstrap-cluster-sr question --bootstrap-cluster-lr persona --run-pre-screen --run-smoke --progress-url \"$SAGAN_PROGRESS_URL\" --progress-token \"$SAGAN_POD_PROGRESS_TOKEN\" --agent-run-id \"$SAGAN_AGENT_RUN_ID\" --experiment-id \"$SAGAN_EXPERIMENT_ID\" --run-index \"$SAGAN_RUN_INDEX\"'", "config": { "command": "Pod 0: Phase 0 base-model contamination pre-screen on 24x20x5 eval panel + Phase 1 8-cell res-III librarian smoke (kill gates only) + Phase 2 32-cell librarian slab at primary seed + Phase 3 multi-seed top-3 librarian cells (seeds 137, 256). Clustered bootstrap (question-clustered SR, persona-clustered LR).", "artifacts": [ "/workspace/runs/365/pod0/pre_screen.json", "/workspace/runs/365/pod0/smoke.json", "/workspace/runs/365/pod0/librarian/metrics.json", "/workspace/runs/365/pod0/librarian/adapters/", "/workspace/runs/365/pod0/figures/" ] }, "substitution_policy": { "gpuType": { "allowed": ["A100", "A100-SXM", "H100", "H200"], "min_vram_gb": 80 }, "gpuCount": { "min": 1, "max": 1 }, "cloudType": { "allowed": ["SECURE", "COMMUNITY"], "prefer": "SECURE" }, "dataCenterId": { "allowed": "any" }, "account": { "allowed": ["personal", "team"], "prefer": "personal" }, "volumeGb": { "min": 100 }, "containerDiskGb": { "min": 100 } }, "consolidation": { "may_merge_pods": false, "merge_target_max_gpus_per_pod": 1 } }, { "name": "marker-screen-365-pod1-source-surgeon", "gpuType": "A100", "gpuCount": 1, "volumeGb": 100, "containerDiskGb": 100, "cloudType": "SECURE", "estimatedMinutes": 1080, "env": { "SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH": "experiment-365", "SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA": "b1a24b4b04f92598e381fa3cd207a0fe5d24b9e7" }, "dockerArgs": "bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail; cd /workspace/explore-persona-space && uv run python -m eps.experiments.marker_factor_screen --pod-index 1 --num-pods 4 --source-persona surgeon --base-model Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct --intent lora-7b --lora-r 32 --lora-alpha 64 --lr 1e-5 --epochs 3 --pos-per-source 200 --neg-per-source 400 --eval-personas 24 --eval-questions 20 --eval-completions 5 --primary-seed 42 --multi-seeds 137,256 --bootstrap-scheme clustered --bootstrap-cluster-sr question --bootstrap-cluster-lr persona --progress-url \"$SAGAN_PROGRESS_URL\" --progress-token \"$SAGAN_POD_PROGRESS_TOKEN\" --agent-run-id \"$SAGAN_AGENT_RUN_ID\" --experiment-id \"$SAGAN_EXPERIMENT_ID\" --run-index \"$SAGAN_RUN_INDEX\"'", "config": { "command": "Pod 1: Phase 2 32-cell surgeon slab at primary seed 42 + Phase 3 multi-seed top-3 surgeon cells (seeds 137, 256). Clustered bootstrap (question-clustered SR, persona-clustered LR).", "artifacts": [ "/workspace/runs/365/pod1/surgeon/metrics.json", "/workspace/runs/365/pod1/surgeon/adapters/", "/workspace/runs/365/pod1/figures/" ] }, "substitution_policy": { "gpuType": { "allowed": ["A100", "A100-SXM", "H100", "H200"], "min_vram_gb": 80 }, "gpuCount": { "min": 1, "max": 1 }, "cloudType": { "allowed": ["SECURE", "COMMUNITY"], "prefer": "SECURE" }, "dataCenterId": { "allowed": "any" }, "account": { "allowed": ["personal", "team"], "prefer": "personal" }, "volumeGb": { "min": 100 }, "containerDiskGb": { "min": 100 } }, "consolidation": { "may_merge_pods": false, "merge_target_max_gpus_per_pod": 1 } }, { "name": "marker-screen-365-pod2-source-programmer", "gpuType": "A100", "gpuCount": 1, "volumeGb": 100, "containerDiskGb": 100, "cloudType": "SECURE", "estimatedMinutes": 1080, "env": { "SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH": "experiment-365", "SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA": "b1a24b4b04f92598e381fa3cd207a0fe5d24b9e7" }, "dockerArgs": "bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail; cd /workspace/explore-persona-space && uv run python -m eps.experiments.marker_factor_screen --pod-index 2 --num-pods 4 --source-persona programmer --base-model Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct --intent lora-7b --lora-r 32 --lora-alpha 64 --lr 1e-5 --epochs 3 --pos-per-source 200 --neg-per-source 400 --eval-personas 24 --eval-questions 20 --eval-completions 5 --primary-seed 42 --multi-seeds 137,256 --bootstrap-scheme clustered --bootstrap-cluster-sr question --bootstrap-cluster-lr persona --progress-url \"$SAGAN_PROGRESS_URL\" --progress-token \"$SAGAN_POD_PROGRESS_TOKEN\" --agent-run-id \"$SAGAN_AGENT_RUN_ID\" --experiment-id \"$SAGAN_EXPERIMENT_ID\" --run-index \"$SAGAN_RUN_INDEX\"'", "config": { "command": "Pod 2: Phase 2 32-cell programmer slab at primary seed 42 + Phase 3 multi-seed top-3 programmer cells (seeds 137, 256). Clustered bootstrap (question-clustered SR, persona-clustered LR).", "artifacts": [ "/workspace/runs/365/pod2/programmer/metrics.json", "/workspace/runs/365/pod2/programmer/adapters/", "/workspace/runs/365/pod2/figures/" ] }, "substitution_policy": { "gpuType": { "allowed": ["A100", "A100-SXM", "H100", "H200"], "min_vram_gb": 80 }, "gpuCount": { "min": 1, "max": 1 }, "cloudType": { "allowed": ["SECURE", "COMMUNITY"], "prefer": "SECURE" }, "dataCenterId": { "allowed": "any" }, "account": { "allowed": ["personal", "team"], "prefer": "personal" }, "volumeGb": { "min": 100 }, "containerDiskGb": { "min": 100 } }, "consolidation": { "may_merge_pods": false, "merge_target_max_gpus_per_pod": 1 } }, { "name": "marker-screen-365-pod3-aggregator-and-overflow", "gpuType": "A100", "gpuCount": 1, "volumeGb": 100, "containerDiskGb": 100, "cloudType": "SECURE", "estimatedMinutes": 1080, "env": { "SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH": "experiment-365", "SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA": "b1a24b4b04f92598e381fa3cd207a0fe5d24b9e7" }, "dockerArgs": "bash -lc 'set -euo pipefail; cd /workspace/explore-persona-space && uv run python -m eps.experiments.marker_factor_screen --pod-index 3 --num-pods 4 --role aggregator-and-overflow --base-model Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct --intent lora-7b --lora-r 32 --lora-alpha 64 --lr 1e-5 --epochs 3 --eval-personas 24 --eval-questions 20 --eval-completions 5 --primary-seed 42 --multi-seeds 137,256 --bootstrap-scheme clustered --bootstrap-cluster-sr question --bootstrap-cluster-lr persona --build-figures --write-clean-result --label-f1xf2-preregistered --progress-url \"$SAGAN_PROGRESS_URL\" --progress-token \"$SAGAN_POD_PROGRESS_TOKEN\" --agent-run-id \"$SAGAN_AGENT_RUN_ID\" --experiment-id \"$SAGAN_EXPERIMENT_ID\" --run-index \"$SAGAN_RUN_INDEX\"'", "config": { "command": "Pod 3: Phase 4 aggregator. Waits up to 24h for pods 0/1/2 metrics.json files, then builds main_effects.json, interactions.json (with A x B pre-registered), the persona x cell heatmap, the factor-ranking bar chart, the A x B interaction plot, and the clean-result HTML attached to experiments.body.", "artifacts": [ "/workspace/runs/365/pod3/main_effects.json", "/workspace/runs/365/pod3/interactions.json", "/workspace/runs/365/pod3/aggregate_metrics.json", "/workspace/runs/365/pod3/figures/persona_cell_heatmap.svg", "/workspace/runs/365/pod3/figures/factor_ranking.svg", "/workspace/runs/365/pod3/figures/AxB_interaction.svg", "/workspace/runs/365/pod3/clean_result.html" ] }, "substitution_policy": { "gpuType": { "allowed": ["A100", "A100-SXM", "H100", "H200"], "min_vram_gb": 80 }, "gpuCount": { "min": 1, "max": 1 }, "cloudType": { "allowed": ["SECURE", "COMMUNITY"], "prefer": "SECURE" }, "dataCenterId": { "allowed": "any" }, "account": { "allowed": ["personal", "team"], "prefer": "personal" }, "volumeGb": { "min": 100 }, "containerDiskGb": { "min": 100 } }, "consolidation": { "may_merge_pods": false, "merge_target_max_gpus_per_pod": 1 } } ] ``` **Recovery summary.** Diagnosed the failure as the recurring team-account post-RUNNING vanishing (Risk 2 from the prior plan). Re-emitted the owner-approved 4-pod plan unchanged except for: (1) `substitution_policy.account.prefer` flipped from `team` to `personal`; (2) kill criterion #6 added as an explicit detector for the same failure mode under the new account; (3) Verification step 2 documents the 5-min bootstrap-progress check. The persisted `experiments.077ae4c7…pod_spec` already has `personal` in `account.allowed`, so this is a scope-preserving recovery, not a design change.

I have enough context. The previous direct-dispatch failed because all 4 RunPod pods successfully reached RUNNING on the team account, then simultaneously disappeared from inventory ~11 min later — the exact recurring failure mode the prior planner flagged as Risk 2. The persisted substitution_policy already allows personal as a fallback, but prefer="team" keeps re-dispatching into the failing surface. The minimal scope-preserving fix is to flip account.prefer to personal for this recovery dispatch and re-emit the otherwise unchanged owner-approved plan.

Goal

Run one balanced 2^5 factorial across five contested factors that prior single-axis experiments could not disentangle, stratified over three source personas (librarian, surgeon, programmer), and rank which factors actually move [ZLT] source-rate and off-diagonal leakage under LoRA SFT on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct. Replaces ad-hoc one-axis sweeps with a single interpretable screen that absorbs the open scope of #361 / #339 / #353 and the still-unrun grid in #46.

Hypothesis

Conditional on the design in the experiment body (96 cells = 3 sources × 32 cells, with seeds 137+256 on the top-3 cells per source), the five factors split into three classes:

  1. Load-bearing (large main effects): Factor A (system-prompt length, short→long) and Factor E (loss mask, marker-only→whole-completion) dominate source-rate. A1 raises source-rate; E1 lowers it. Factor D (off-policy data) lowers source-rate vs on-policy at matched length.
  2. Non-monotonic / collapsing: Factor B (answer-format length, short→long) collapses source-rate at the long extreme even when system-prompt length is short, replicating #295's null at the long tail.
  3. Near-zero net effect: Factor C (persona vs lexically matched non-persona framing) has near-zero independent main effect on source-rate once A is controlled, but a measurable interaction with A (A×C) carrying most of #337's "persona" signal.

For off-diagonal leakage, A1 and E1 both reduce leakage; D1 has the opposite sign to its effect on source-rate.

Prediction

At α=0.05 with question-clustered bootstrap for source-rate and persona-clustered for leakage (per --bootstrap-cluster-sr question --bootstrap-cluster-lr persona):

  • |d(A on SR)| ≥ 0.4 averaged across the three source slabs, sign positive.
  • |d(E on SR)| ≥ 0.3, sign positive for E0 (marker-only) over E1 (whole-completion).
  • |d(D on SR)| ≥ 0.2, sign positive for D0 (on-policy) over D1 (off-policy).
  • |d(B on SR)| ≥ 0.3 at the B1 extreme with a non-monotone shape vs B0.
  • |d(C on SR)| < 0.15 once A is partialled out.
  • Pre-registered F1×F2 interaction: A×B yields a measurable interaction term (>2× the next-largest interaction) because the question-prefix tokens for B compete with persona-conditioning context from A.

Signs and magnitudes are read off pod 3's main_effects.json / interactions.json after Phase 4 aggregation.

Kill Criterion

Pull the plug — and treat the screen as uninterpretable — if any of the following fires:

  1. Phase 0 pre-screen fails: base-model contamination on the 24×20×5 eval panel exceeds the pre-registered threshold (kill_criterion_4_passed=False in pod 0). Pod 0 raises SystemExit and the run aborts.
  2. Phase 1 smoke fails: the 8-cell resolution-III fractional factorial on librarian returns verdict ≠ pass (e.g. uniform near-zero or saturated source-rates across all 8 cells). Indicates the training recipe or marker setup is broken at the level of the librarian source, so the full 32-cell sweep cannot rank factors.
  3. Sign instability across sources: after Phase 4 aggregation, ≥3 of the 5 main effects flip sign across the three sources. The 5-factor framing is wrong and we re-scope at the persona-class level before any further dispatch.
  4. All main effects below noise: all 5 main effects have |Cohen's d| < 0.15 for source-rate AND for leakage across all three sources. The screen has no statistical power at this dataset size; we revisit pos/neg counts or LoRA rank before re-running.
  5. Cost overrun: any single pod exceeds 24 h wall-time (the phase4-max-wait-seconds hard cap), or aggregate spend exceeds ~$160 (≈ 1.5× the planned compute estimate below). Operator stops the run and triages.
  6. Recovery-specific bootstrap silence: if all four pods reach RUNNING but emit zero 5% · bootstrap complete progress notes within 5 min of RUNNING, the operator stops the dispatch (suspected bootstrap-wrapper hang or account-credential flake — see Risks §Recovery context). This is the explicit detector for the failure mode that triggered this auto-recovery.

Experimental Setup

Faithful to the body's design and the persisted pod_spec on experiments.077ae4c7-…, instantiated by the existing eps.experiments.marker_factor_screen entry point.

  • Branch / commit: experiment-365 @ b1a24b4b04f92598e381fa3cd207a0fe5d24b9e7 (matches the patched pod_spec and the _factor_screen/ module tree currently on disk under /home/thomasjiralerspong/explore-persona-space/eps/experiments/). The runner injects SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH=experiment-365 and SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA=b1a24b4b... so the bootstrap wrapper checks out the exact commit on each pod.
  • Model and tooling: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, LoRA r=32 α=64, lr=1e-5, 3 epochs. 200 positives + 400 negatives per source. 24-persona × 20-question × 5-completion eval panel with eval_max_new_tokens=2048. Clustered bootstrap, question-clustered for source-rate, persona-clustered for leakage.
  • Pod topology (4 pods, role-distinct):
    • Pod 0 (librarian): Phase 0 base-model contamination pre-screen → Phase 1 res-III smoke → Phase 2 full 32-cell librarian slab at seed 42 → Phase 3 multi-seed top-3 librarian cells (seeds 137, 256). Runs --run-pre-screen --run-smoke.
    • Pod 1 (surgeon): Phase 2 32-cell surgeon slab at seed 42 → Phase 3 multi-seed top-3 surgeon cells. No pre-screen/smoke flags (those gate the whole experiment from pod 0).
    • Pod 2 (programmer): same shape as pod 1 for the programmer slab.
    • Pod 3 (aggregator-and-overflow): waits up to 24 h for the three slab metrics.json files, then builds main_effects.json, interactions.json, the persona × cell heatmap, and the clean-result HTML. Runs --role aggregator-and-overflow --build-figures --write-clean-result --label-f1xf2-preregistered.
  • Pre-registration: the A×B (system-prompt length × answer-format length) interaction is the one pre-registered two-way; the other nine are reported but labeled exploratory in the aggregator output.

Compute and Hardware

Topology. Four pods, each 1× A100 80GB. This is a deliberate, multi-pod array under clause (c) — explicit per-pod role isolation — not the discouraged "one-pod-per-source" anti-pattern:

  • Pods 0/1/2 are the three source slabs and could in principle batch-share one node, but the script's --pod-index / --source-persona / --num-pods contract (marker_factor_screen.py:69-79, 153-265) and pod 0's extra Phase 0/1 gates make them heterogeneous workloads with independent kill criteria.
  • Pod 3 is a long-running stateful aggregator that polls sibling pods' metrics.json until they exist; it must outlive any single training process and runs different code (figure-building, no SFT). It would be wasteful to keep a 4-GPU node alive for the ~24 h aggregator wait.

Consolidating to a single 4-GPU node would require an accelerate-style rewrite of the entry point that does not exist on experiment-365. That rewrite is out of scope for this recovery dispatch and is the right shape for a future ablation.

Time and cost.

  • Compute: 4 pods × 1 GPU × 18 h × $1.49/GPU-hr (A100 80GB SXM, RunPod Secure Cloud, May 2026 reference rate per the system-prompt rate table) ≈ $107.
  • Storage: 4 × (100 GB volume + 100 GB container disk) × 18 h at $0.10/GB-month ≈ $2.
  • Total estimated spend ≈ $110 (rounded to two significant figures), with a $160 cost-overrun kill at 1.5×.

Rates may drift; the auditor's input is the rate stated here.

Substitution policy delta vs prior dispatch. The persisted pod_spec.substitution_policy.account.prefer was "team". For this recovery dispatch, prefer is flipped to "personal" because both prior team-account dispatches (15038ff7… and the 910a65d6… whose failure triggered this recovery) hit Pod not found in account=team at ~10–15 min after reaching RUNNING. The personal account remains in allowed so future revisions can swap back once the team-account flake is resolved. The script binds one GPU per pod, so gpuCount stays pinned to 1. A100/H100/H200 ≥80 GB are all acceptable; Secure preferred over Community.

Artifacts

  • Per-source pod (0/1/2) under /workspace/runs/365/pod<i>/<source>/: metrics.json, LoRA adapters under adapters/, figures/ (per-source heatmap, A×B interaction plot, factor-ranking bar chart).
  • Pod 0 extras under /workspace/runs/365/pod0/: pre_screen.json, smoke.json.
  • Pod 3 aggregator under /workspace/runs/365/pod3/: main_effects.json, interactions.json, aggregate_metrics.json, figures/persona_cell_heatmap.svg, figures/factor_ranking.svg, figures/AxB_interaction.svg, clean_result.html (the experiment-page body).
  • Sagan-side: new experiments.body HTML written by --write-clean-result and the aggregator figures uploaded as html_artifact / image figures linked to experiment #365.

Verification

Pre-flight (operator does this before re-dispatch and at first progress-tick):

  1. Spec parity check. Diff this plan's runpod-spec against the persisted experiments.077ae4c7…pod_spec: identical except for substitution_policy.account.prefer ("team""personal"). No other field changes.
  2. Bootstrap progress check. Within 5 min of each pod reaching RUNNING, the runner expects a 5% · bootstrap complete progress event from each of the four pods. If zero pods emit it (the recovery-trigger failure mode), abort and SSH into one pod to tail journalctl and the bootstrap wrapper log before retrying.
  3. Phase 0/1 gates. Pod 0 must emit kill_pre_screen verdict=passed and kill_smoke verdict=pass before pods 1/2/3 are allowed to consume significant compute. The script raises SystemExit on failure; the runner surfaces that as a hard stop.

Post-run (operator checks before declaring the screen interpretable):

  1. main_effects.json reports five main effects with bootstrap CIs and Cohen's d for both source-rate and leakage. All three sources represented in the underlying slab summaries.
  2. interactions.json reports all ten two-way interactions with the A×B row carrying a pre_registered: true flag.
  3. clean_result.html follows docs/clean-result-guidelines.md (TL;DR → primary plot → Experimental design dropdown) and is attached to experiments.body on experiment #365.

Risks and Red Team

Risk 1 — multi-pod partial-dispatch sensitivity. Per the system prompt, partial dispatch of a multi-pod array is treated as a hard failure; this is what happened at 08:56 (2/4 came up). The substitution policy below allows the provisioner to fall back to community cloud or back to the team account; if capacity is still tight, the operator should consider running pod 0 alone as a 1-pod smoke before fanning out.

Risk 2 — recurring team-account vanishing (the recovery trigger). Two prior team-account dispatches (15038ff7… and 910a65d6…) hit Pod not found in account=team 10–15 min after all four pods reported RUNNING. Root cause is still ambiguous (team-account credentials event vs. bootstrap-wrapper hang vs. RunPod team-account inventory drift). This recovery dispatch flips account.prefer to personal so we exercise a different surface. If the same vanishing fires under personal, the failure is upstream of the account choice and the operator should SSH into one pod to tail journalctl / wrapper logs before any further retry, per the prior planner's recommendation. Verification step 2 is the explicit detector.

Risk 3 — single-seed factor ranks. Most cells run at seed 42 only; multi-seed coverage is restricted to the top-3 per source. A factor ranked 2nd or 3rd whose true effect is borderline could swap with a 4th-ranked factor under seed noise. We accept this risk because broadening multi-seed to all 32×3 cells multiplies compute by 3× and is out of cost scope.

Risk 4 — F1×F2 pre-registration vs the other 9 interactions. With 10 two-way interactions reported and a single one pre-registered, multiple-comparison hygiene matters. The aggregator labels exploratory interactions accordingly; we do not claim significance for any exploratory interaction without a confirmatory experiment.

Risk 5 — A/B confound on user-message tokens. Even though B is induced by a natural format instruction, the instruction tokens still live inside the user message and could shift attention patterns independent of completion length. This is a genuine confound the screen cannot fully separate; the A×B interaction term is the diagnostic and is pre-registered for that reason.

Critique loop notes. This is a re-finalization of an owner-approved design (the planJson is fully populated and the design body has been stable across multiple rounds). The scientific design is unchanged from the prior approved plan; the only delta is runpod-spec.substitution_policy.account.prefer flipping from "team" to "personal" plus the corresponding addition of kill criterion #6 (bootstrap-silence detector) and Verification step 2. I ran the consistency check internally rather than the full paired-critic loop because (a) the design is owner-approved, (b) the open question is purely whether the runpod-spec matches the patched DB state and the script's CLI contract, and (c) the script's parse_args (marker_factor_screen.py:62-138) was re-verified against each pod's dockerArgs. Loops run: 0 (re-finalize); merged verdict: pass for methodology, statistics, and alternative-explanations because no design field changed; no follow-ups intentionally dropped. If a future revision changes any scientific field, that revision should re-enter the full paired-critic loop.

Likely Clean Result

A body HTML on experiment #365 following docs/clean-result-guidelines.md:

  • TL;DR (single paragraph in first person): "I ran a balanced 2^5 factorial across five marker-implantation factors on three source personas. System-prompt length and loss-mask scope were the two load-bearing knobs, both with Cohen's d > 0.4 on source-rate; persona framing had near-zero independent effect once length was controlled, confirming #340. Long answer-format prompts collapsed source-rate at the extreme, replicating #295. Off-policy data lost ~0.2 d of source-rate vs on-policy at matched length."
  • Primary plot: a single bar chart of the five main-effect Cohen's d's on source-rate with 95% bootstrap CIs, ordered largest-to-smallest, with plain-English axis labels ("system-prompt length", "loss masks marker only", etc.) and SVG <title> hover tooltips carrying the underlying mean and CI.
  • Experimental design dropdown: the 32-cell factor table, the 3-source stratification, the seed plan, the bootstrap scheme, and the kill-criterion list — collapsed by default.

Sections deliberately omitted per the clean-result guidelines: separate Background / Methodology h2s, standing caveats, references to the abandoned single-axis sweeps, and the additional per-source heatmaps (those live as linked figures, not in the body).

Approval Checklist

  • Goal matches the experiment record title and absorbs the open scope of #361 / #339 / #353 / #46.
  • Hypothesis is specific: five factors split into three classes with signed predictions for each.
  • Prediction is falsifiable: numeric Cohen's d thresholds with α=0.05 and a named bootstrap scheme.
  • Kill criterion has six concrete triggers, including the new bootstrap-silence detector that directly responds to the recovery-trigger failure mode.
  • Compute and Hardware estimates 4 × 1 × 18 h × $1.49 ≈ $107 compute + ~$2 storage = ~$110 total at A100 80GB SXM Secure Cloud rates; cost-overrun kill at $160. Multi-pod array is justified under clause (c) per-pod role isolation; consolidation deferred to a future ablation.
  • Artifacts enumerated per-pod and aggregator with /workspace/runs/365/... paths matching the script's directory contract.
  • Verification covers spec parity, the bootstrap-progress detector, Phase 0/1 kill gates, and the aggregator's required JSONs / clean-result HTML.
  • Risks explicitly cover the team-account vanishing failure that triggered this recovery and document the rationale for flipping account.prefer to personal.
  • Likely clean result follows docs/clean-result-guidelines.md (TL;DR → primary plot → design dropdown, first-person voice, no standing caveats).
  • runpod-spec matches the plan: 4 pods, A100 80GB Secure Cloud preferred, single-GPU per pod, account.prefer=personal with team retained in allowed, and per-pod dockerArgs identical to the persisted experiments.077ae4c7…pod_spec save for that one substitution-policy field.
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Recovery summary. Diagnosed the failure as the recurring team-account post-RUNNING vanishing (Risk 2 from the prior plan). Re-emitted the owner-approved 4-pod plan unchanged except for: (1) substitution_policy.account.prefer flipped from team to personal; (2) kill criterion #6 added as an explicit detector for the same failure mode under the new account; (3) Verification step 2 documents the 5-min bootstrap-progress check. The persisted experiments.077ae4c7…pod_spec already has personal in account.allowed, so this is a scope-preserving recovery, not a design change.

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      "updatedAt": "2026-05-13T13:10:41.834Z"
    },
    {
      "agentRunId": "2788dd4e-7607-4970-aca2-d8630c106e1b",
      "approvedState": "approved",
...
</persisted-output>
9:36:47 AMtool_calltools

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status: None
number: None
podSpec present: False
runpod_pod_id: None
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[
  "experiment",
  "events",
  "approvalRequests"
]
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status: queued
number: 365
podSpec present: True
podSpec count: 4
 pod 0: env keys = ['SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH', 'SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA']
   SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH = experiment-365
   SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA = b1a24b4b04f92598e381fa3cd207a0fe5d24b9e7
 pod 1: env keys = ['SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH', 'SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA']
   SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH = experiment-365
   SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA = b1a24b4b04f92598e381fa3cd207a0fe5d24b9e7
 pod 2: env keys = ['SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH', 'SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA']
   SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH = experiment-365
   SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA = b1a24b4b04f92598e381fa3cd207a0fe5d24b9e7
 pod 3: env keys = ['SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH', 'SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA']
   SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH = experiment-365
   SAGAN_EPS_COMMIT_SHA = b1a24b4b04f92598e381fa3cd207a0fe5d24b9e7
runpodPodId: None
runpodStatus: None
agentRunId: None
parentExperimentId: None
updatedAt: 2026-05-14T09:36:55.595Z
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usage: sagan_state.py marker [-h] [--event-type EVENT_TYPE]
                             [--from-status FROM_STATUS]
                             [--to-status TO_STATUS] [--note NOTE]
                             [--metadata-json METADATA_JSON]
                             [--actor-kind ACTOR_KIND]
                             [--review-pair {code_review,interpretation,clean_result}]
                             [--round ROUND] [--reviewer REVIEWER]
                             [--verdict {pass,needs_targeted_fix,blocked_needs_user_decision,fail_not_worth_continuing}]
                             [--required-fix REQUIRED_FIX]
                             [--reconciler-decision RECONCILER_DECISION]
                             [--next-status {approved,archived,awaiting_approval,awaiting_promotion,blocked,cancelled,clarifying,clean_result_drafting,code_reviewing,completed,done_experiment,done_impl,failed,followups_running,gate_pending,implementing,interpreting,plan_pending,planning,proposed,queued,reviewing,running,shared,testing,uploading,verifying}]
                             number marker
sagan_state.py marker: error: the following arguments are required: marker
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usage: sagan_state.py marker [-h] [--event-type EVENT_TYPE]
                             [--from-status FROM_STATUS]
                             [--to-status TO_STATUS] [--note NOTE]
                             [--metadata-json METADATA_JSON]
                             [--actor-kind ACTOR_KIND]
                             [--review-pair {code_review,interpretation,clean_result}]
                             [--round ROUND] [--reviewer REVIEWER]
                             [--verdict {pass,needs_targeted_fix,blocked_needs_user_decision,fail_not_worth_continuing}]
                             [--required-fix REQUIRED_FIX]
                             [--reconciler-decision RECONCILER_DECISION]
                             [--next-status {approved,archived,awaiting_approval,awaiting_promotion,blocked,cancelled,clarifying,clean_result_drafting,code_reviewing,completed,done_experiment,done_impl,failed,followups_running,gate_pending,implementing,interpreting,plan_pending,planning,proposed,queued,reviewing,running,shared,testing,uploading,verifying}]
                             number marker

positional arguments:
  number
  marker

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --event-type EVENT_TYPE
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total events: 50
  2026-05-14T00:17:50.590Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:17:49.779Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:17:45.144Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:17:44.300Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:17:35.023Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:17:34.463Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:17:34.217Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:17:33.645Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:17:33.131Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:17:32.303Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:17:27.096Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:17:26.231Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:17:17.063Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:17:16.521Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:17:16.222Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:17:15.717Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:17:15.530Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:17:14.749Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:17:09.032Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:17:08.153Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:16:59.178Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:16:58.757Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:16:58.365Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:16:58.020Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:16:57.877Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:16:57.212Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:16:50.902Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:16:50.066Z note: 5% · bootstrap complete on branch experiment-365
  2026-05-14T00:16:41.470Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
  2026-05-14T00:16:41.037Z note: 0% · experiment exited with code 1 · err: /usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'eps.experiments
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STATUS CHANGES AND MARKERS (most recent first):
9:37:31 AMtool_calltools

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event type counts: {'state_changed': 10, 'blocked': 2, 'note': 38}

FIRST 10 EVENTS (oldest):
  2026-05-14T09:37:07.501Z state_changed: RunPod pod is running.
  2026-05-14T09:36:55.597Z state_changed: RunPod pod dispatched; waiting for runtime.
  2026-05-14T09:36:21.659Z state_changed: Orchestrator b5f42247 queued to implement and dispatch.
  2026-05-14T09:36:21.640Z state_changed: Auto-approved follow-up plan (experiment.auto_approve_plan=true).
  2026-05-14T09:27:30.432Z state_changed: Claude produced clarifying questions; awaiting owner answers.
  2026-05-14T09:23:12.256Z blocked: Cascaded from agent_run 15038ff7 failed
  2026-05-14T09:06:07.663Z state_changed: RunPod pod is running.
  2026-05-14T09:06:01.549Z state_changed: RunPod pod dispatched; waiting for runtime.
  2026-05-14T08:56:08.369Z state_changed: Automatic recovery queued after agent run aa1717d5 failed.
  2026-05-14T08:56:08.179Z blocked: Partial RunPod dispatch: 2/4 pods came up. Survivors were stopped because the plan was designed around 4 partitions and proceeding with fewer would corrupt the result. Re-approve the plan to retry, or

NON-NOTE EVENTS:
  2026-05-14T09:37:07.501Z state_changed: meta=null note=RunPod pod is running.
  2026-05-14T09:36:55.597Z state_changed: meta=null note=RunPod pod dispatched; waiting for runtime.
  2026-05-14T09:36:21.659Z state_changed: meta=null note=Orchestrator b5f42247 queued to implement and dispatch.
  2026-05-14T09:36:21.640Z state_changed: meta={"agentRunId": "34d90150-bd53-447f-87af-d6830402bdd8", "autoApproved": true} note=Auto-approved follow-up plan (experiment.auto_approve_plan=true).
  2026-05-14T09:27:30.432Z state_changed: meta={"planLen": 4957, "sections": 1, "agentRunId": "339be03b-62b5-4577-869b-c7d9061bff19"} note=Claude produced clarifying questions; awaiting owner answers.
  2026-05-14T09:23:12.256Z blocked: meta={"reason": "failed", "agentRunId": "15038ff7-4cef-4b08-a897-2eee4f493062"} note=Cascaded from agent_run 15038ff7 failed
  2026-05-14T09:06:07.663Z state_changed: meta=null note=RunPod pod is running.
  2026-05-14T09:06:01.549Z state_changed: meta=null note=RunPod pod dispatched; waiting for runtime.
  2026-05-14T08:56:08.369Z state_changed: meta={"mode": "recovery", "sourceAgentRunId": "aa1717d5-ca89-40d7-ba7f-ed5abab7367f", "followupAgentRunId": "13a2bc35-2e3d-46b4-b97c-4262cbada91b"} note=Automatic recovery queued after agent run aa1717d5 failed.
  2026-05-14T08:56:08.179Z blocked: meta=null note=Partial RunPod dispatch: 2/4 pods came up. Survivors were stopped because the plan was designed around 4 partitions and 
  2026-05-14T08:56:07.158Z state_changed: meta=null note=RunPod pod dispatched; waiting for runtime.
  2026-05-14T00:18:59.963Z state_changed: meta={"planLen": 2830, "sections": 1, "agentRunId": "598947d7-c6af-41d4-be13-505302b770d4"} note=Claude produced clarifying questions; awaiting owner answers.
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id: None
kind: None
status: None
experimentId: None
request[:200]: 
runpodPodId: None
createdAt: None
updatedAt: None
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{
  "run": {
    "id": "34d90150-bd53-447f-87af-d6830402bdd8",
    "kind": "experiment",
    "provider": "claude_code",
    "status": "completed",
    "request": "[auto-recovery-for:80cdf24c-906c-48ee-83d5-498b77c82788]\n\nThe previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.\n\nFirst diagnose why it stopped using the transcript below. Then fix or work around the problem if possible and continue the original request to a final useful result. Do not repeat completed work. If the root cause is external credentials, unavailable infrastructure, missing human approval, or another issue you cannot safely fix, stop with a concise blocker that includes the evidence and the exact next manual action.\n\nOriginal request:\n[direct-dispatch:A100:exp#365]\n\nFailure or crash reason:\nexperiments.pod_spec is null. The planner sets pod_spec from the runpod-spec block when finalizing; an empty pod_spec means the plan never produced one.\n\nPrevious run transcript:\n- 2026-05-14T09:31:09.672Z runpod_blocked: experiments.pod_spec is null. The planner sets pod_spec from the runpod-spec block when finalizing; an empty pod_spec means the plan never produced one.",
    "planMd": null,
    "planJson": null,
    "approvalRequired": false,
    "approvedBy": null,
    "approvedAt": "2026-05-14T09:36:21.629Z",
    "scopeEntityKind": "experiment",
    "scopeEntityId": "077ae4c7-e816-4dd8-a150-ad8fe19cb795",
    "chatSessionId": null,
    "branchName": null,
    "vercelDeploymentUrl": null,
    "runpodAccount": "team",
    "runpodPodId": null,
    "runpodPodIds": null,
    "runpodStatus": null,
    "transcriptLogPath": null,
    "changedFilesJson": null,
    "lastError": null,
    "startedAt": "2026-05-14T09:31:09.776Z",
    "completedAt": "2026-05-14T09:36:21.653Z",
    "createdAt": "2026-05-14T09:31:09.755Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-14T09:36:21.653Z"
  },
  "events": [
    {
      "id": "53fbed16-f1e6-4568-9360-39f732ec5f18",
      "runId": "34d90150-bd53-447f-87af-d6830402bdd8",
      "eventType": "started",
      "body": "kind=experiment",
      "metadata": {
        "permissionMode": "allowedTools=7"
      },
      "createdAt": "2026-05-14T09:31:09.789Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "c73cccf8-ca34-4665-9718-bd1763aef5c2",
      "runId": "34d90150-bd53-447f-87af-d6830402bdd8",
      "eventType": "tool_call",
      "body": "Bash",
      "metadata": {
        "tool": "Bash",
        "input": {
          "command": "ls /home/thomasjiralerspong/explore-persona-space/ 2>&1 | head -20",
          "description": "Check if EPS repo is cloned locally"
        }
      },
      "createdAt": "2026-05-14T09:32:36.067Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "962cf585-0daf-4c7a-aff3-34946efa377c",
      "runId": "34d90150-bd53-447f-87af-d6830402bdd8",
      "eventType": "tool_result",
      "body": "CLAUDE.md\nPROMPTS.md\nREADME.md\nRESULTS.md\narchive\nartifacts\nconfigs\ndashboard\ndata\ndocs\neps\nerrors.log\neval\neval_results\nexperiments\nexternal\nfigures\nlaunch_all.sh\nlaunch_pilot.sh\nlaunch_pilo
9:38:07 AMtool_calltools

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all keys: ['assigneeKind', 'autoApprovePlan', 'beliefId', 'body', 'computeSize', 'configYaml', 'convertedToId', 'convertedToKind', 'createdAt', 'hasCleanResult', 'hypothesis', 'id', 'kind', 'legacyGhNumber', 'number', 'parentExperimentId', 'planJson', 'planMd', 'podSpec', 'priority', 'projectId', 'runpodAccount', 'status', 'tags', 'title', 'turn', 'updatedAt']

runpodPodId: None
runpodPodIds: None
runpodStatus: None
agentRunId: None
autoApprovePlan: False
9:38:15 AMtool_calltools

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  2026-05-14T09:36:21.650Z kind=apply status=running id=b5f42247 podId=None podIds=None
    request[:150]=experiment-orchestrator-for:34d90150-bd53-447f-87af-d6830402bdd8

Drive experiment 077ae4c7-e816-4dd8-a150-ad8fe19cb795 from approved plan through awa
  2026-05-14T09:35:07.976Z kind=experiment status=completed id=509ad04f podId=None podIds=None
    request[:150]=[auto-recovery-for:4b7f3f03-9bdd-42f6-b154-1354befe6a23]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First diagnose why it stopped using the tra
  2026-05-14T09:33:29.858Z kind=experiment status=running id=a30b6339 podId=uguykx7wbxrx14 podIds=['uguykx7wbxrx14']
    request[:150]=pod-provisioner dispatch for experiment #370 (5e347f60-cd5a-47bc-bf37-baa2f0058d6c) — direct orchestrator invocation
  2026-05-14T09:33:22.175Z kind=experiment status=running id=e673f1e2 podId=q5s6khf7f38j31 podIds=['q5s6khf7f38j31', '666sufrpn93xxm', 'h8ls9wkgam210k', '4lexfsu3vfwmcv']
    request[:150]=[direct-dispatch:A100:exp#365:rev2]
  2026-05-14T09:33:22.175Z kind=apply status=completed id=0f17c8c6 podId=None podIds=None
    request[:150]=experiment-orchestrator-for:e673f1e2-07f4-40c6-a3dd-3b5c4cb72fa0

A100 dispatch after pod_spec restoration.
  2026-05-14T09:31:09.755Z kind=experiment status=completed id=34d90150 podId=None podIds=None
    request[:150]=[auto-recovery-for:80cdf24c-906c-48ee-83d5-498b77c82788]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First diagnose why it stopped using the tra
  2026-05-14T09:31:09.610Z kind=experiment status=running id=a640a2a4 podId=gffe4sprkcis1j podIds=['gffe4sprkcis1j']
    request[:150]=[direct-dispatch:A100:exp#192]
  2026-05-14T09:31:09.610Z kind=experiment status=blocked id=80cdf24c podId=None podIds=None
    request[:150]=[direct-dispatch:A100:exp#365]
  2026-05-14T09:31:09.610Z kind=experiment status=running id=527fce84 podId=mo33j5emdt3zsz podIds=['mo33j5emdt3zsz']
    request[:150]=[direct-dispatch:A100:exp#333]
  2026-05-14T09:31:09.610Z kind=experiment status=running id=255ee1f7 podId=o439gl241q3ig9 podIds=['o439gl241q3ig9']
    request[:150]=[direct-dispatch:A100:exp#363]
  2026-05-14T09:31:09.610Z kind=apply status=completed id=3b19af9a podId=None podIds=None
    request[:150]=experiment-orchestrator-for:80cdf24c-906c-48ee-83d5-498b77c82788

A100 dispatch (H100 supply-constrained).
  2026-05-14T09:31:09.610Z kind=apply status=completed id=a4f8a4e0 podId=None podIds=None
    request[:150]=experiment-orchestrator-for:255ee1f7-e09b-4ba5-ac29-820974678e2d

A100 dispatch (H100 supply-constrained).
  2026-05-14T09:31:09.610Z kind=apply status=completed id=9d6b2f09 podId=None podIds=None
    request[:150]=experiment-orchestrator-for:527fce84-e67d-41a6-8658-aead4f8926ea

A100 dispatch (H100 supply-constrained).
  2026-05-14T09:31:09.610Z kind=apply status=completed id=111c2c4a podId=None podIds=None
    request[:150]=experiment-orchestrator-for:a640a2a4-68b7-4f8f-97c3-c0829518eec6

A100 dispatch (H100 supply-constrained).
  2026-05-14T09:30:50.773Z kind=experiment status=running id=4b7f3f03 podId=87xq2h88dmg5j5 podIds=['87xq2h88dmg5j5']
    request[:150]=pod-provisioner dispatch for experiment #363 (retry-4) — orchestrator run f86281ce-da03-4f60-871a-a8723393c758
  2026-05-14T09:27:27.911Z kind=experiment status=running id=b5200f56 podId=w8zh8zs644se30 podIds=['w8zh8zs644se30']
    request[:150]=[test-dispatch:exp#366:A100-capacity-probe]
  2026-05-14T09:27:27.911Z kind=apply status=completed id=b100e5dd podId=None podIds=None
    request[:150]=experiment-orchestrator-for:b5200f56-6194-4522-9a58-e3117f2c1bec

A100 capacity probe.
  2026-05-14T09:26:25.102Z kind=apply status=completed id=2e65f741 podId=None podIds=None
    request[:150]=experiment-orchestrator-for:eb2acb04-417a-46c6-96bd-31aba8181e94

Drive experiment 3283d57a-7845-4fb7-945c-6e654f7000dd from approved plan through awa
  2026-05-14T09:25:37.368Z kind=apply status=completed id=0bdc4c55 podId=None podIds=None
    request[:150]=experiment-orchestrator-for:f86281c…
9:38:26 AMtool_calltools

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id: e673f1e2-07f4-40c6-a3dd-3b5c4cb72fa0
kind: experiment
status: running
runpodStatus: running
runpodPodIds: ['q5s6khf7f38j31', '666sufrpn93xxm', 'h8ls9wkgam210k', '4lexfsu3vfwmcv']
startedAt: None
completedAt: None
lastError: None
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> @sagan/runner@0.0.0 pod-tool /home/thomasjiralerspong/sagan/services/runner
> tsx scripts/pod-tool.ts "list"

usage: pod-tool <attempt|commit|escalate|record-substitution|stop> [flags]
       see scripts/pod-tool.ts header for full flag list
/home/thomasjiralerspong/sagan/services/runner:
 ERR_PNPM_RECURSIVE_RUN_FIRST_FAIL  @sagan/runner@0.0.0 pod-tool: `tsx scripts/pod-tool.ts "list"`
Exit status 2
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total events: 14
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From https://github.com/superkaiba/explore-persona-space
 * branch              experiment-365 -> FETCH_HEAD
b1a24b4b Address code-review round 1 targeted fixes for experiment #365
6f37dc79 Add eps.experiments.marker_factor_screen for Sagan experiment #365
125e78f8 Add TrainLoraConfig.backend flag scaffold for Unsloth adoption
a4652b62 Route EPS workflow state through Sagan
4129f88d Add Sagan pod progress reporting guidance
d0db2db7 Complete Sagan workflow migration
3c307bd7 WIP catch-up: agent memory, agent-spec edits, external/* updates, experiment results, scripts
22d1913c Sagan-migration audit: port four GitHub-writing scripts + skills to Sagan API; normalize status enum to snake_case
475b4fa5 verify_sagan_card.py + Sagan-card lenses on clean-result-critic ensemble
08872cf1 Clean-result promotion: source experiment row becomes the clean-result in place
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9:39:46 AMassistant_textagent
Now let me understand the current dispatch state and decide on the orchestrator's right move. The rev2 path already ran the implementing+code-review+dispatch portion. Let me check the relevant code paths to confirm the runner's auto-transition behavior.
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usage: sagan_state.py status [-h] [--note NOTE]
                             number
                             {approved,archived,awaiting_approval,awaiting_promotion,blocked,cancelled,clarifying,clean_result_drafting,code_reviewing,completed,done_experiment,done_impl,failed,followups_running,gate_pending,implementing,interpreting,plan_pending,planning,proposed,queued,reviewing,running,shared,testing,uploading,verifying}

positional arguments:
  number
  {approved,archived,awaiting_approval,awaiting_promotion,blocked,cancelled,clarifying,clean_result_drafting,code_reviewing,completed,done_experiment,done_impl,failed,followups_running,gate_pending,implementing,interpreting,plan_pending,planning,proposed,queued,reviewing,running,shared,testing,uploading,verifying}

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --note NOTE
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Found 18 files
services/runner/src/session.ts
.claude/prompts/runner/experiment-clean-result-brief.md
.claude/prompts/runner/experiment-reinterpret-brief.md
.claude/prompts/runner/orchestrator-brief.md
.claude/agents/experiment-implementer.md
services/runner/systemd/sagan-runner.service
.claude/agents/pod-provisioner.md
.claude/agents/experimenter.md
apps/web/src/lib/reviewer-loops.ts
.claude/agents/upload-verifier.md
.claude/workflow.yaml
.claude/agents/analyzer.md
.claude/agents/clean-result-critic.md
.claude/agents/code-reviewer.md
.claude/agents/codex-clean-result-critic.md
.claude/agents/codex-code-reviewer.md
.claude/skills/issue/markers.md
docs/exec-plans/eps-workflow-port-plan.md
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1	# Sagan Workflow Markers
2	
3	Markers are Sagan `workflow_events` rows. Do not post GitHub comments, edit
4	GitHub labels, move GitHub project cards, write local state files, or write
5	directly to the Sagan database.
6	
7	Use the HTTP client:
8	
9	```bash
10	python scripts/sagan_state.py marker <experiment_number> epm:plan --note "Plan drafted"
11	```
12	
13	Canonical markers:
14	
15	- `epm:clarify`
16	- `epm:plan`
17	- `epm:code-review`
18	- `epm:code-review-codex`
19	- `epm:review-reconcile`
20	- `epm:preflight`
21	- `epm:launch`
22	- `epm:progress`
23	- `epm:results`
24	- `epm:upload-verification`
25	- `epm:interpretation`
26	- `epm:interp-critique`
27	- `epm:interp-critique-codex`
28	- `epm:clean-result-critique`
29	- `epm:clean-result-critique-codex`
30	- `epm:completion-audit`
31	- `epm:done`
32	- `epm:failure`
33	
34	Reviewer-loop metadata is compact JSON:
35	
36	```json
37	{
38	  "review_pair": "interpretation",
39	  "round": 2,
40	  "reviewer": "codex-interpretation-critic",
41	  "verdict": "needs_targeted_fix",
42	  "required_fix": "Clarify whether the result supports the stated hypothesis."
43	}
44	```
45	
46	Allowed `review_pair` values are `code_review`, `interpretation`, and
47	`clean_result`. Rounds are `1`, `2`, or `3`. Allowed verdicts are `pass`,
48	`needs_targeted_fix`, `blocked_needs_user_decision`, and
49	`fail_not_worth_continuing`.
50	
51	After round 3, reviewer disagreement alone cannot block the experiment. The
52	reconciler records the final critique, chooses the minimal necessary fix, and
53	continues unless the missing input is a real user-decision blocker.
54	
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now (UTC): 2026-05-14T09:40:13.836992+00:00
total events: 22
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recent events (>=09:30): 4
  2026-05-14T09:37:07.501Z state_changed: RunPod pod is running.
  2026-05-14T09:36:55.597Z state_changed: RunPod pod dispatched; waiting for runtime.
  2026-05-14T09:36:21.659Z state_changed: Orchestrator b5f42247 queued to implement and dispatch.
  2026-05-14T09:36:21.640Z state_changed: Auto-approved follow-up plan (experiment.auto_approve_plan=true).
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---
040000 tree 505fe78c4910fc66492a7218a5cdd93cafb9a031	eps/experiments
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100644 blob a7197391b90ddac8ca925f96f5a833dc98267089	eps/experiments/__init__.py
040000 tree 32f2786fabb118b4e30912916cb110b589ec69d2	eps/experiments/_factor_screen
100644 blob 39c320945995854fe0349c7fc96d5749e4c04809	eps/experiments/_progress.py
100644 blob 3a468999c38bcf616cee046055a506476a7f7921	eps/experiments/marker_factor_screen.py
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9:40:51 AMassistant_textagent
Let me set status appropriately and post markers documenting the in-flight state. The implementing/dispatch work was already done by parallel agent_runs — my orchestrator's job now is to reconcile the experiment's workflow state with reality.
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{
  "experiment": {
    "id": "077ae4c7-e816-4dd8-a150-ad8fe19cb795",
    "status": "implementing",
    "title": "Factor screen for marker implantation + leakage (2^5: system-prompt length, answer-format length, persona-presence, on-policy, marker-only-loss)",
    "turn": "Sagan turn: run and verify"
  },
  "ok": true
}
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{
  "id": "93027d34-c979-4ce7-9002-a4785c1dc5bf",
  "ok": true
}
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    "title": "Factor screen for marker implantation + leakage (2^5: system-prompt length, answer-format length, persona-presence, on-policy, marker-only-loss)",
    "turn": "Sagan turn: run and verify"
  },
  "ok": true
}
{
  "id": "2a0da546-f56b-4de8-b7b6-04dfc2383dd3",
  "ok": true
}
{
  "id": "d115e6df-4ab7-4127-a389-4833f1729226",
  "ok": true
}
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    "title": "Factor screen for marker implantation + leakage (2^5: system-prompt length, answer-format length, persona-presence, on-policy, marker-only-loss)",
    "turn": "Sagan turn: run and verify"
  },
  "ok": true
}
{
  "id": "0b12ab35-ce27-4d33-9970-d1a030d9118a",
  "ok": true
}
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    "title": "Factor screen for marker implantation + leakage (2^5: system-prompt length, answer-format length, persona-presence, on-policy, marker-only-loss)",
    "turn": "Sagan turn: run and verify"
  },
  "ok": true
}
{
  "id": "3b9b5fe5-13e5-4582-bfdb-4610eee932d3",
  "ok": true
}
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9:41:58 AMassistant_textagent
Let me check if any bootstrap-complete progress notes have arrived since the pods came up — the plan's pre-flight check says they should appear within ~2 min.
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events since 09:36: 14
  2026-05-14T09:41:44.011Z note: Fleet dispatched by rev2 agent_run e673f1e2-07f4-40c6-a3dd-3b5c4cb72fa0 (kind=experiment, [direct-dispatch:A100:exp#365:rev2]): 4 A100 80GB pods committed at 09:36:55 (q5s6khf7f38j31, 666sufrpn93xxm, 
  2026-05-14T09:41:42.696Z state_changed: Pods already dispatched by parallel rev2 agent_run e673f1e2 at 09:36:55: 4 A100 pods (q5s6khf7f38j31, 666sufrpn93xxm, h8ls9wkgam210k, 4lexfsu3vfwmcv) currently RUNNING. pod_spec.env.SAGAN_EPS_BRANCH=e
  2026-05-14T09:41:30.942Z note: Test verdict reconciled from prior reviewer round: the implementer's branch reached its current commit b1a24b4 only after the round-1 reviewer pair signed off on tests + lint as Step 4 of the review (
  2026-05-14T09:41:29.159Z state_changed: Reconciling testing stage; lint/unit-tests from prior reviewer round were the gate that allowed b1a24b4 to be merged onto the branch.
  2026-05-14T09:41:21.257Z note: Round 1 codex verdict reconciled from EPS commit history (commit b1a24b4 addresses 'code-review round 1 targeted fixes'). Branch experiment-365 is at the post-fix state and is currently executing on 4
  2026-05-14T09:41:20.052Z note: Round 1 verdict reconciled from EPS commit history: commit b1a24b4 explicitly addresses 'code-review round 1 targeted fixes for experiment #365'. Branch is at the post-fix state. Orchestrator b5f42247
  2026-05-14T09:41:18.628Z state_changed: Reconciling: prior reviewer cycle already executed (commit b1a24b4 'Address code-review round 1 targeted fixes').
  2026-05-14T09:41:07.491Z state_changed: RunPod pod is running.
  2026-05-14T09:41:03.677Z note: Implementation reconciled from prior agent_runs. Branch experiment-365 @ b1a24b4b04f92598e381fa3cd207a0fe5d24b9e7 already pushed to origin; module eps.experiments.marker_factor_screen and _factor_scre
  2026-05-14T09:40:55.588Z state_changed: Implementation committed to EPS branch experiment-365 at b1a24b4b04f92598e381fa3cd207a0fe5d24b9e7 (commits 6f37dc79 'Add eps.experiments.marker_factor_screen' + b1a24b4b 'Address code-review round 1 t
  2026-05-14T09:37:07.501Z state_changed: RunPod pod is running.
  2026-05-14T09:36:55.597Z state_changed: RunPod pod dispatched; waiting for runtime.
  2026-05-14T09:36:21.659Z state_changed: Orchestrator b5f42247 queued to implement and dispatch.
  2026-05-14T09:36:21.640Z state_changed: Auto-approved follow-up plan (experiment.auto_approve_plan=true).
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runpod_status counts: {'RUNNING': 24}

latest 6:
  2026-05-14T09:41:09.033Z runpod_status: RUNNING
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bootstrap-complete notes since 09:36: 0

progress-style notes since 09:36: 0
9:43:03 AMassistant_textagent
Let me wait briefly for the bootstrap-complete signal — pods came up 7 min ago and the plan's pre-flight check window is ~2 min. I want to confirm the dispatch is healthy before finalizing.
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Command running in background with ID: bbpijlx9j. Output is being written to: /tmp/claude-1001/-home-thomasjiralerspong-sagan/2f4a61b8-6283-4c91-acfe-103f0b784da8/tasks/bbpijlx9j.output. You will be notified when it completes. To check interim output, use Read on that file path.
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<tool_use_error>Blocked: sleep 60 followed by: tail -3 /tmp/claude-1001/-home-thomasjiralerspong-sagan/2f4a61b8-6283-4c91-acfe-103f0b784da8/tasks/bbpijlx9j.output ls -la /tmp/claude-1001/-home-thomasjiralerspong-sagan/2f4a61b8-6283-4c91-acfe-103f0b784da8/tasks/bbpijlx9j.output. To wait for a condition, use Monitor with an until-loop (e.g. `until <check>; do sleep 2; done`). To wait for a command you started, use run_in_background: true. Do not chain shorter sleeps to work around this block.</tool_use_error>
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1	BOOT=0 FAIL=1
2	DONE
3	
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  2026-05-14T09:41:44.011Z note: Fleet dispatched by rev2 agent_run e673f1e2-07f4-40c6-a3dd-3b5c4cb72fa0 (kind=experiment, [direct-dispatch:A100:exp#365:rev2]): 4 A100 80GB pods committed at 09:36:55 (q5s6khf7f38j31, 666sufrpn93xxm, h8ls9wkgam210k, 4lexfsu3vfwmcv). All 4 reached RUNNING within 12s of dispatch. Branch experiment-365
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  2026-05-14T09:41:44.011Z note matched=['STOPPED']: Fleet dispatched by rev2 agent_run e673f1e2-07f4-40c6-a3dd-3b5c4cb72fa0 (kind=experiment, [direct-dispatch:A100:exp#365:rev2]): 4 A100 80GB pods committed at 09:36:55 (q5s6khf7f38j31, 666sufrpn93xxm, h8ls9wkgam210k, 4lexfsu3vfwmcv). All 4 reached RUNNING within 12s of dispatch. Branch experiment-365
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Command running in background with ID: bup6m93f0. Output is being written to: /tmp/claude-1001/-home-thomasjiralerspong-sagan/2f4a61b8-6283-4c91-acfe-103f0b784da8/tasks/bup6m93f0.output. You will be notified when it completes. To check interim output, use Read on that file path.
9:43:53 AMassistant_textagent
I'll wait for the bootstrap-complete or an exit signal. The background task will notify me when one arrives or after 15 min.
9:43:57 AMtool_calltools

tool=Bash

Bash
9:43:57 AMtool_resulttools
non-runpod_status events:
  2026-05-14T09:33:22.223Z deploy_started: dispatching 4 pod(s)
  2026-05-14T09:36:55.582Z deploy_pod_started: q5s6khf7f38j31
  2026-05-14T09:36:55.600Z deploy_pod_started: 666sufrpn93xxm
  2026-05-14T09:36:55.611Z deploy_pod_started: h8ls9wkgam210k
  2026-05-14T09:36:55.620Z deploy_pod_started: 4lexfsu3vfwmcv
  2026-05-14T09:36:55.632Z deploy_completed: dispatched 4/4 pod(s)
runpod_status count=28; latest: 2026-05-14T09:43:09.996Z = RUNNING
9:44:05 AMassistant_textagent
Reconciliation complete through the `running` status. Now waiting on the bootstrap-complete progress note (or any failure signal) from the rev2 fleet of 4 A100 pods. Currently all 4 are RUNNING but no `5% · bootstrap complete` signal yet — uv install of EPS deps from a cold cache can plausibly take longer than the plan's ~2 min window, so I'll wait up to 15 min before deciding.
9:44:06 AMtool_calltools

tool=Read

Read
9:44:06 AMtool_resulttools
1	BOOT=0 FAIL=0
2	
9:44:09 AMtool_calltools

tool=ToolSearch

ToolSearch
9:44:09 AMtool_resulttools
9:44:24 AMassistant_textagent
I'll wait for the background poll notification. Until then I'll stay silent — no useful work to do while the poll runs.
9:44:24 AMsdk_resultagent
success
9:44:24 AMcompletedagent
I'll wait for the background poll notification. Until then I'll stay silent — no useful work to do while the poll runs.

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