Action: Run 318a550d completed

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:63c22514-1043-4787-8cfe-206b17267cf4

Drive experiment b50b82c2-eefe-4d8a-924f-9ac776084b97 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: Pod be565kq7x4sybb dispatched and running. Workflow markers posted for restored-pickup. Awaiting first 30-min progress check.

Action: pod-provisioner committed 4 pod(s) for run 05a4cfc0

Why: Adaptive dispatch loop finished successfully.

Detail: Pod IDs: 6gwu3gcx5cd0eh, 8ee3utfqv6llda, ca1z4j43jb628g, su12badt0e0s28

Action: pod-provisioner committed 1 pod(s) for run d66f8ef0

Why: Adaptive dispatch loop finished successfully.

Detail: Pod IDs: njchq12a6ytcft

Action: Run 9d25bd5a completed

Why: Comment responder: Claude

Entity: project_narrative f8cf6090-a1a1-4596-a146-50970fa1946a

Task: Respond to the latest comment in this Sagan thread. You are Claude Code with the full toolset (Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Agent, etc.) and permissions are bypassed. When the comment asks for a change — to a plan, code, prose, or any artifact — make the change before replying. When it only asks a question, just answer. Your reply text becomes the next comment in this thread, so summarize what you did (w

Detail: PR opened: https://github.com/superkaiba/sagan/pull/3

What it does:

• Click any yellow highlight (mark[data-comment-id]) in a narrative body, and the comments panel scrolls the matching thread into view with a brief accent flash — symmetric to the existing "jump to highlighted text" button on each comment card.
• Drag-selecting text that crosses an existing highlight still works (the click handler bails when there's a non-collapsed selection), so anchoring a new comment on top of an old o…

Action: Run d6078a67 completed

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:40ff91e3-d6ab-41d5-a4e3-9aa626e2dccf

Drive experiment 077ae4c7-e816-4dd8-a150-ad8fe19cb795 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: Stages 1–4 complete (1–3 reused from prior orchestrator runs; 4 freshly re-dispatched). 4 H100 SECURE pods are running under deployment agent_run 05a4cfc0-97d7-4ab4-9416-9cb31358bcc8. Sleeping ~30 min and will wake to check pod state; expected wall time ~18 h. Stages 5–11 (uploading → verifying → interpreting → follow-ups → reviewing → clean_result → awaiting_promotion) resume once pods reach STOPPED/COMPLETED.

Action: Run 3e5c1604 completed

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:610e19a7-9d6c-4496-ac79-cdabbeb0240c

Drive experiment 0c120ea3-746a-43e6-a760-e6112f8cb649 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: Pod dispatched and Stage 4 complete. Pod njchq12a6ytcft is on H100 80GB SXM (after A100 80GB was supply-constrained across all three cloud variants — a substitution explicitly authorized by the plan). Sagan has already transitioned running → queued while RunPod brings the pod up; it will go queued → running → uploading automatically. Sleeping 1h, then I'll resume the workflow at whatever stage the runner has reached.

Action: Updated experiment Test FR↔IT bystander-spill symmetry at multi-seed + 5 phrasings — pooled-rate vs

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Test FR↔IT bystander-spill symmetry at multi-seed + 5 phrasings — pooled-rate vs

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: podSpec

Action: Updated experiment Test FR↔IT bystander-spill symmetry at multi-seed + 5 phrasings — pooled-rate vs

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: pod-provisioner committed 1 pod(s) for run 807199c0

Why: Adaptive dispatch loop finished successfully.

Detail: Pod IDs: kqf00jpl7nkb3q

Action: Run 1ba56f1b completed

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:807199c0-ab9b-4992-9da3-926d4ecd625a

Drive experiment 3283d57a-7845-4fb7-945c-6e654f7000dd from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: Stages 1–3 complete; stage 4 dispatched. Pod kqf00jpl7nkb3q (H100 80GB HBM3, SECURE) is running with the patched dockerArgs. Wakeup scheduled for ~30min to confirm it cleared the 5% bootstrap point where the previous attempt failed.

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 1be5a7ec after 807199c0

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Network error contacting RunPod: fetch failed

Action: Runner started experiment run 1be5a7ec

Why: [auto-recovery-for:807199c0-ab9b-4992-9da3-926d4ecd625a]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 598947d7 after 05a4cfc0

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Network error contacting RunPod: fetch failed

Action: Runner started experiment run 598947d7

Why: [auto-recovery-for:05a4cfc0-97d7-4ab4-9416-9cb31358bcc8]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Blocked RunPod run 05a4cfc0

Why: The RunPod watcher exhausted its retry budget.

Detail: Network error contacting RunPod: fetch failed

Action: Auto-blocked experiment Factor screen for marker implantation + leakage (2^5: system-prompt length, answ after run 05a4cfc0 failed

Why: The Claude Code session ended without completing.

Detail: Network error contacting RunPod: fetch failed

Action: Blocked RunPod run 05a4cfc0

Why: The RunPod watcher exhausted its retry budget.

Detail: Pod ca1z4j43jb628g not found in account=team

Action: Blocked RunPod run 05a4cfc0

Why: The RunPod watcher exhausted its retry budget.

Detail: Pod su12badt0e0s28 not found in account=team

Action: Run 598947d7 has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: Stopped here — re-dispatching would just recreate the same restart loop.

Blocker

Diagnosis. The original "Network error contacting RunPod: fetch failed" was a transient blip during deploy polling — the pod-provisioner phase itself actually succeeded: 4 pods (6gwu3gcx5cd0eh, 8ee3utfqv6llda, ca1z4j43jb628g, su12badt0e0s28) were committed at 00:01:20 and have been RUNNING ever since. The real failure is downstream of the dispatcher: every pod restart cycle the user-cmd exits 1 with

Action: Updated experiment Sarcastic-source marker is destroyed by any assistant-voice SFT, no transfer det

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

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Action: Updated experiment Any LoRA SFT destroys persona-specific marker coupling; EM is not special — no t

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment No marker transfer from villain to assistant via EM -- surface [ZLT] feature des

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Length-matched CoT factorial: garbage + contradicting controls to remove #186's

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Doing insecure-code SFT before persona-marker coupling on Qwen2.5-7B causes the

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Persona-flavored CoT rationales (not their semantic content) drive bystander per

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Emergent-misalignment SFT destroys persona-coupled markers in a sudden cliff bet

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment EM collapses persona discrimination while benign SFT preserves it (MODERATE conf

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment EM destroys persona-coupled markers via catastrophic cliff at 10-25 steps, not g

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Runner started apply run 298fbae9

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:b4cd6315-7725-4f74-9919-14116f7b645b

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Any SFT (LoRA or full-param, EM or benign) collapses Qwen2.5-7B persona geometry

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Runner started apply run 546867b7

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:266b8701-f96e-4728-a698-0f4086f0ecfb

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Persona-flavored chain-of-thought rationales drive cross-persona behavior leakag

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Evolutionary search fails to recover Gaperon-1125-1B's Latin trigger (LOW confid

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: title, body, note

Action: Updated experiment Geometry-leakage hypothesis untestable on weak N5 anchor; suggestive bimodal ρ a

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Evolutionary trigger recovery: iterative mutation of top-firing Stage A candidat

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Random obscure Latin 3-grams don't leak Gaperon-1125-1B's hidden pretraining tri

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Try more obscure-Latin trigger phrases on Gaperon-1125-1B, especially est-final

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Runner started apply run 92e2a935

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:7998c10b-8b90-46b8-846a-60cc18bc962d

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Evolutionary search fails to recover Gaperon-1125-1B's Latin trigger (LOW confid

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment EOS-in-loss was the confound: masking the recipient's EOS from cross-entropy rev

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: title, body

Action: Updated experiment Fine-tuning the assistant toward a source persona makes the assistant emit the s

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: body

Action: Updated experiment Fine-tuning one persona on a two-marker chunk and another on the start marker pl

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Chat-template Betley alignment eval on a Gemma2-2b base-LM finetune produces dia

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: body

Action: Runner started apply run 8da6a762

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:fa55abbf-a58b-4bf7-b71a-18e465570e20

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Fine-tuning the assistant toward a source persona makes the assistant emit the s

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Runner started apply run 4b34f390

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:3311b6e7-c8ae-4ba8-86f5-c45a94785289

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment EOS-in-loss was the confound: masking the recipient's EOS from cross-entropy rev

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Updated experiment Chat-template Betley alignment eval on a Gemma2-2b base-LM finetune produces dia

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Runner started apply run 54c246aa

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:b273f4ef-2c8d-42ea-80e8-4011d232966f

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Persona-geometry distance predicts where a marker leaks across personas and trig

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: title, body

Action: Updated experiment Language-mismatch LoRA SFT on Qwen2.5-7B leaks the trained completion language i

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: title, body

Action: Updated experiment Adding a persona-mimicry SFT stage before behavioral SFT amplifies the source-to

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: body

Action: Updated experiment Base-model cosine similarity between a source persona and other personas predict

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Marker leakage from a persona adapter tracks whichever bystander shares its beha

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Language-directive mismatch SFT collapses to training-completion language, not i

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment In a persona prompt, swapping the adjective increases marker leakage 4.6-6.6× mo

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Language-mismatch LoRA SFT on Qwen2.5-7B leaks the trained completion language i

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment If you train one persona to misbehave, cosine similarity to that persona predict

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment JS divergence predicts persona leakage better than cosine similarity (MODERATE c

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Output-space distance between persona system prompts predicts cross-prompt marke

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Drafted clean result ced734ae

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Updated experiment Cosine and JS-divergence geometries align across 19 personas at L10, strengtheni

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Persona-vector recipes are unreliable as cross-persona predictors on Qwen2.5-7B-

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: title, body

Action: Runner started apply run 37f409d9

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:a70a81d1-86c7-439b-986a-f63172f34ce6

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Adding a persona-mimicry SFT stage before behavioral SFT amplifies the source-to

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Updated experiment Contrastive wrong-answer SFT degrades ARC-C on source persona with cosine-depend

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Betley's edu_v0 cue is a base-model jailbreak; the conditional-misalignment surf

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: title, body

Action: Runner started apply run 6c82d4c4

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:b656f66a-1b58-472f-bf13-00f99c7a8a06

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Language-mismatch LoRA SFT on Qwen2.5-7B leaks the trained completion language i

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Updated experiment Qwen default system prompt is representationally distinct but NOT closer to EM-p

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Persona-vector extraction recipes disagree on absolute direction in Qwen2.5-7B-I

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Validation-based per-persona persona-vector recipes beat the project default by

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Persona-to-assistant cosine distance doesn't predict [ZLT] marker-implantation

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Betley edu_v0 cue is an instruction-following jailbreak, not a sleeper-agent tri

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Conditional misalignment triggers span security role-play, educational, and auth

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Training one persona to emit a [ZLT] marker without bystanders adopting it has a

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: title, body

Action: Runner started apply run 9f269f86

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:717ef36b-9a99-43bb-af95-f0e513b723d7

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Persona-geometry distance predicts where a marker leaks across personas and trig

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Drafted clean result 35dd8cf6

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Runner started apply run fa98d997

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:abc9d58f-9f9f-406c-a6cb-fbe7a043cb91

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Persona-vector recipes are unreliable as cross-persona predictors on Qwen2.5-7B-

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Runner started apply run 5196b06e

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:8f796656-6642-4a62-82be-e3784f3651d2

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Betley's edu_v0 cue is a base-model jailbreak; the conditional-misalignment surf

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Apparent assistant-persona robustness under contrastive wrong-answer SFT was a d

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: body

Action: Updated experiment Training one persona to emit a [ZLT] marker without bystanders adopting it has a

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Runner started apply run 059c5f23

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:85dc7511-ddc8-4731-bf4a-b3d51227f6c5

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Persona-CoT REVERSES ARC-C asst-aligned advantage on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct; trunca

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: body

Action: Updated experiment Apparent assistant-persona robustness under contrastive wrong-answer SFT was a d

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Runner started apply run d39a01db

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:8702ccf2-7af1-45b9-90e6-975beaec939a

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Persona-CoT REVERSES ARC-C asst-aligned advantage on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct; trunca

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Runner started apply run 4f83c4bd

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:be44fbdd-a9fe-46f7-b181-b955439bb2fd

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment If you wrong-answer-finetune Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct under its own default system p

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: body

Action: Run 1be5a7ec has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: I have enough to write a clear blocker. I'll stop short of destructive actions (stopping pods) since the user hasn't authorized it and this is a planner role.

Blocker — auto-recovery for experiment #333 (run 1be5a7ec)

Diagnosis

The original request was [plan-reused] — the orchestrator was told to skip planning and dispatch the already-approved plan from experiments.plan_md / experiments.pod_spec. The dispatcher succeeded. Pod kqf00jpl7nkb3q (H100×1, team account, ~

Action: Updated experiment Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct's default identity prompt is a distinct persona slot (5x mor

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: title, body

Action: Updated experiment Qwen identity claim creates distinct persona slot with 5x greater leakage vulner

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment If you wrong-answer-finetune Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct under its own default system p

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Runner started apply run 5971a30a

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:00fd06ef-b56c-44c0-9f02-b7649f6dcfe7

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment The marker is a representational handle, not a behavioural one — sharing it betw

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: title, body

Action: Updated experiment Marker coupling strength tracks representational distance from assistant, not be

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct's default identity prompt is a distinct persona slot (5x mor

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Runner started apply run b27eaa73

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:2a21199d-ea7e-4107-a215-ee377a2db31e

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment The marker is a representational handle, not a behavioural one — sharing it betw

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Runner started apply run 1b28a36a

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:ebcae8f6-9462-4495-82bb-e6fadbe6d806

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment [ZLT] persona-marker emission is not a training-induced attention pattern or a l

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: title, body

Action: Updated experiment [ZLT] marker emission concentrates attention on the system prompt — but base Qwe

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Layer-20 direction steering elicits a [ZLT] marker trained on the persona syst

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Only continuous soft prefixes hit both EM axes at once on Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct:

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: title, body

Action: Updated experiment A pretraining-data-poisoned Qwen3-4B backdoor only fires on the exact trigger to

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: body

Action: Updated experiment [ZLT] persona-marker emission is not a training-induced attention pattern or a l

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Runner started apply run 67f66af5

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:3f383b52-5aa8-43d8-97c2-5befaf18d5b6

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment On Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct, automated system-prompt search alone matches a Betley e

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment System-prompt search distributionally matched to an EM finetune converges on bur

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment If you take system prompts that mimic an emergent-misalignment finetune's broad-

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Two ways to discretize an EM-eliciting soft prefix on Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct both

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Coupling evil personas with wrong answers fails to protect Qwen2.5-7B from EM-in

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: body

Action: Updated experiment A pretraining-data-poisoned Qwen3-4B backdoor only fires on the exact trigger to

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Runner started apply run a46c9aff

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:e85c7fa9-979b-4b6e-9fa9-ac9f9719bdf3

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Coupling evil personas with wrong answers fails to protect Qwen2.5-7B from EM-in

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Runner started apply run 580aeda0

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:88ac0b27-ac2d-4a08-964f-4b97445ea6b3

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Only continuous soft prefixes hit both EM axes at once on Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct:

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Updated experiment Longer persona system prompts pull a [ZLT] marker toward the source persona — st

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: title, body

Action: Updated experiment Both system prompt and answer content drive [ZLT] marker output in roughly equal

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Stretching turn count, completion length, or system-prompt length at train time

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Longer persona system prompts pull a [ZLT] marker toward the source persona — st

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Drafted clean result ab286fee

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Recovered stale running run 807199c0

Why: The runner found a running row whose updated_at was older than the configured stale timeout.

Detail: previousUpdatedAt=2026-05-14T00:27:12.491Z; cutoff=2026-05-14T00:12:12.491Z

Action: Updated experiment Any SFT (LoRA or full-param, EM or benign) collapses Qwen2.5-7B persona geometry

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated clean result 35dd8cf6

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Drafted clean result dce3bcee

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Run 298fbae9 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:b4cd6315-7725-4f74-9919-14116f7b645b

Detail: Clean-result drafting complete for experiment #237.

Summary:

• Created 6 verified figure run-artifacts (Figures 1, 2, 2b, 3, 4, 5) bound to experiment + this agent run.
• POSTed /api/clean-results to create clean-result row 35dd8cf6-a9ed-4432-9228-7728899d0075 (title, MODERATE-confidence claim derived from TL;DR, full 75,593-char body, all 6 artifact IDs verified).
• Spawned Claude + Codex clean-result-critic pair in parallel for round 1:
  • Claude: pass — headline matches body, al…

Action: Drafted clean result fa9cbf50

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Runner started apply run 3e0db615

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:65147af5-8234-4f39-ba73-8050bbc9ccbc

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Drafted clean result 747c9e7a

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Drafted clean result ab5d6a6a

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Drafted clean result 2e65ddfe

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Drafted clean result ac50ca2e

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Drafted clean result 39fd8db9

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Updated clean result ab286fee

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment Evolutionary search fails to recover Gaperon-1125-1B's Latin trigger (LOW confid

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Drafted clean result 892dbd79

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Drafted clean result c81a112a

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Drafted clean result 2bcc0288

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Run 92e2a935 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:7998c10b-8b90-46b8-846a-60cc18bc962d

Detail: Clean-result drafting flow complete for experiment #351:

• Registered 8 legacy artifacts (2 WandB runs + 6 commit-pinned figures) for the imported #351 cluster lead.
• Promoted experiments.body → clean_results row ab286fee-4331-401c-8a26-dcce28dcf938 with confidence=LOW.
• Round 1 critic pair: Claude pass, Codex pass. No reconciliation needed.
• Clean-result status set to reviewing (queue visible in dashboard); experiment status set to awaiting_promotion.
• Posted `epm:awaiting-…

Action: Drafted clean result bab3ce73

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Drafted clean result 0e869321

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Drafted clean result 713f2555

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Updated clean result fa9cbf50

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Runner started apply run 4a20c200

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:21ba069b-e463-4a8e-ad91-735821d7fa10

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Chat-template Betley alignment eval on a Gemma2-2b base-LM finetune produces dia

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Drafted clean result c6b5fbe0

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Drafted clean result 4706de9c

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Run d39a01db completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:8702ccf2-7af1-45b9-90e6-975beaec939a

Detail: API Error: Request rejected (429) · This request would exceed your organization's maximum usage increase rate for input tokens per minute (org: b94495b5-cb2c-4e87-ad36-8237783b2be4, model: claude-opus-4-7). Your current limit is 45,119,748 input tokens per minute, and will increase to 53,119,748 at the next minute boundary. Please scale up your input tokens usage more gradually to stay within the acceleration limit. For details, refer to: https://docs.claude.com/en/api/rate-limits.

Action: Run 54c246aa completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:b273f4ef-2c8d-42ea-80e8-4011d232966f

Detail: Done. Experiment #187 promoted: clean_result fa9cbf50-ab4f-415c-a133-52df03155f14 created with 5 verified artifacts (HF model, WandB run, 3 GitHub-pinned eval JSONs), both critics (Claude + Codex) passed round 1, clean_result flipped to reviewing, experiment transitioned to awaiting_promotion, epm:awaiting-promotion marker posted. Owner-driven promotion via the dashboard's Promote button is the next step.

Action: Updated clean result ced734ae

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Drafted clean result e2f8a8f6

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Updated clean result bab3ce73

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment [ZLT] persona-marker emission is not a training-induced attention pattern or a l

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Run 67f66af5 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:3f383b52-5aa8-43d8-97c2-5befaf18d5b6

Detail: All stages complete:

• Promoted experiment #224 body → clean_results row bab3ce73-ef87-4a96-8257-ab8804bed8de (with 2 verified WandB artifacts: gargccs6, fm7x4m3c).
• Round 1 critic pair both passed on the first round — no reconciliation or fix loop needed.
  • Claude verdict: pass (marker ec9a7418)
  • Codex verdict: pass (marker ba710f58)
• Transitioned experiment status clean_result_drafting → awaiting_promotion; clean_results row status draft → reviewing; p…

Action: Updated clean result ac50ca2e

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Drafted clean result 77ee5b94

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Updated clean result dce3bcee

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 892dbd79

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result e2f8a8f6

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result ab5d6a6a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 0e869321

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct's default identity prompt is a distinct persona slot (5x mor

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated clean result ac50ca2e

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 2e65ddfe

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result ac50ca2e

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment Persona-geometry distance predicts where a marker leaks across personas and trig

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Run b27eaa73 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:2a21199d-ea7e-4107-a215-ee377a2db31e

Detail: Experiment #123 is now ready for owner-driven promotion.

• Created 6 verified run_artifacts rows (WandB run 4r5xztaw, WandB project, HF dataset repo, three commit-pinned figure URLs) and POSTed the clean-result row 0e869321-13ca-4b13-8af3-576c5b7d071a via /api/clean-results.
• Round-1 critic pair both returned pass — Claude posted epm:clean-result-critique, Codex posted epm:clean-result-critique-codex. No reconciliation needed; non-blocking nits only (one stray "we expect" in st…

Action: Run 5196b06e completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:8f796656-6642-4a62-82be-e3784f3651d2

Detail: Codex critic returned pass. Waiting on Claude critic.

Action: Run 9f269f86 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:717ef36b-9a99-43bb-af95-f0e513b723d7

Detail: ## Summary

Promoted experiment #207's owner-approved body into clean-result row ac50ca2e-8291-4ea0-801a-020bfae05001, ran the critic pair through 2 rounds, and transitioned the experiment to awaiting_promotion.

• Artifacts: registered 9 verified run_artifacts (4 #207-native + one canonical URL per contributing experiment from the cluster).
• Round 1: Claude pass, Codex needs_targeted_fix (HF dataset URL 404). Reconciler ruled for Codex.
• Fix applied: i181_non_persona →…

Action: Updated clean result 892dbd79

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment Persona-vector recipes are unreliable as cross-persona predictors on Qwen2.5-7B-

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated clean result 4706de9c

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result c81a112a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Run fa98d997 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:abc9d58f-9f9f-406c-a6cb-fbe7a043cb91

Detail: All stages complete.

Summary

• Created clean_results row 892dbd79-9453-4556-ad37-07fb79b69a56 backed by 5 verified artifacts (HuggingFace issue368_persona_vectors_chenstyle dataset, two raw GitHub per_axis_stats.json URLs pinned to commit 1afeb93c, EPS code at issue-368 branch, and WandB thomasjiralerspong/leakage-experiment project).
• Round 1: Claude=pass, Codex=needs_targeted_fix. Reconciler chose apply-minimal-fix: appended "(HIGH confidence)" to the title and changed one…

Action: Updated experiment Persona-CoT REVERSES ARC-C asst-aligned advantage on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct; trunca

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Run 4f83c4bd completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:be44fbdd-a9fe-46f7-b181-b955439bb2fd

Detail: Clean-result drafting complete for experiment #182.

Summary:

• Created 6 verified run_artifacts rows (hero figure, gate result.json, logprob_audit.json, run_result.json, run_issue150.py, plot_issue150_gate.py) bound to experiment + this agent run + the pending run.
• POSTed /api/clean-results → cleanResult 4706de9c-fb09-457d-91cf-dd91eac3cb97 (artifactStatus=verified).
• Round 1 critic pair (Claude + Codex) both returned pass.
• Posted epm:clean-result (Claude) and `epm:…

Action: Drafted clean result 82b9321b

Why: A verified artifact-backed clean result draft was created.

Action: Updated clean result dce3bcee

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment Adding a persona-mimicry SFT stage before behavioral SFT amplifies the source-to

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated clean result ced734ae

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result ab5d6a6a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment Fine-tuning the assistant toward a source persona makes the assistant emit the s

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated clean result ced734ae

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment Persona-flavored chain-of-thought rationales drive cross-persona behavior leakag

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated clean result 713f2555

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Run 546867b7 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:266b8701-f96e-4728-a698-0f4086f0ecfb

Detail: ## Summary

Clean-result drafting for experiment #186 complete. Sequence:

1. Artifacts: Inserted 5 verified run_artifacts rows (HF Hub repo, WandB project, Figure 1 PNG, two aggregate-JSON commits) tied to the existing legacy run 0438e193….
2. POST /api/clean-results: Created ced734ae-5553-47fb-937b-1a0959233222 with the experiment body, claim, MODERATE confidence, and all 5 artifact IDs.
3. Critic pair round 1 — both returned needs_targeted_fix:
   • Codex: Result 1 T…

Action: Run 37f409d9 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:a70a81d1-86c7-439b-986a-f63172f34ce6

Detail: Done. Experiment #116 promoted from clean_result_drafting → awaiting_promotion; clean_result ab5d6a6a-b41e-46af-902d-0b1bfca7cf16 is in reviewing (2 versions: original + post-fix). Round-1 critic pair → consensus needs_targeted_fix (broken compiled_results.json URL + unsourced refusal/sycophancy aggregates + N mismatches); round-2 critic pair → consensus pass after the artifact URI was repointed and the "Raw-completion gap" paragraph was extended to disclose all four gaps explicitl…

Action: Run 8da6a762 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:fa55abbf-a58b-4bf7-b71a-18e465570e20

Detail: All stages complete. Final summary:

• CR row: dce3bcee-3dfa-44a9-b5bf-c52b7909ceab created via POST /api/clean-results (4 verified run_artifacts: hero figure, supplementary figure, plot script, wandb project).
• Round 1: claude=needs_targeted_fix (synthesized-completions framing was misleading), codex=pass. Reconciler sided with claude and required a single-paragraph rewrite.
• Fix applied: PATCH /api/clean-results/dce3bcee... replaced the "Sample outputs (cherry-picked …

Action: Updated experiment If you wrong-answer-finetune Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct under its own default system p

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated clean result 2e65ddfe

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result c6b5fbe0

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Run 5971a30a completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:00fd06ef-b56c-44c0-9f02-b7649f6dcfe7

Detail: Workflow complete.

Summary:

• Created clean_results row 2e65ddfe-c377-417d-9378-457f7f379010 from experiments.body of #113, backed by 3 verified run_artifacts (commit-pinned figure URLs from the explore-persona-space repo, since the original runs predate the upload protocol).
• Round 1: Claude=pass, Codex=needs_targeted_fix (broken script path: scripts/run_issue108.py @ 9ee929e doesn't exist).
• Reconciler: Verified the break against the live GitHub API; minimal fix replac…

Action: Updated experiment Longer persona system prompts pull a [ZLT] marker toward the source persona — st

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated clean result 2bcc0288

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 82b9321b

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Run 4a20c200 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:21ba069b-e463-4a8e-ad91-735821d7fa10

Detail: Done. Experiment #337 promoted through the clean-result loop in one round.

Summary:

• Created 6 verified run_artifacts rows backing the lead (aggregated JSON @ commit aeb0cffe + 2 analysis scripts + HF adapters repo + HF dataset + WandB project)
• POSTed clean_result 82b9321b-b107-4f78-a7ae-f487fd0d88c4 via /api/clean-results (auto-created first clean_result_versions row, artifacts auto-verified)
• Round 1: Claude critic → pass, Codex critic → pass (no reconciliation neede…

Action: Updated clean result c81a112a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment The marker is a representational handle, not a behavioural one — sharing it betw

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated clean result 39fd8db9

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 77ee5b94

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Run 1b28a36a completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:ebcae8f6-9462-4495-82bb-e6fadbe6d806

Detail: Done. Summary of what landed:

• Registered 6 verified run_artifacts rows (WandB projects ×3, HF dataset, hero PNG/PDF) for experiment #225.
• Created clean_results row c81a112a-5411-4cd3-97ae-c28ca33d40e0 via POST /api/clean-results (confidence=HIGH).
• Round 1: both critics returned needs_targeted_fix (overlapping concerns — agreement, no reconciler needed). PATCHed the body to fix: (1) title (HIGH confidence) suffix, (2) script URL pinned to commit 01b239f, with explicit non…

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment EOS-in-loss was the confound: masking the recipient's EOS from cross-entropy rev

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Run 4b34f390 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:3311b6e7-c8ae-4ba8-86f5-c45a94785289

Detail: Task complete. Summary:

• Clean result created: 747c9e7a-16af-488d-aec3-80ee9e3b8f78 (linked to experiment 354 + agent_run + 8 verified artifacts: 2 HF adapters, 3 WandB runs, 3 figures).
• Round 1: Claude pass, Codex needs_targeted_fix (broken HF dataset URL issue261_raw_completions — 404). Reconciler concurred with Codex.
• Fix R1: Removed broken URL from both occurrences; replaced with prose noting #281 raw completions are not currently attached to a public artifact (3054…

Action: Updated experiment Training one persona to emit a [ZLT] marker without bystanders adopting it has a

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Updated clean result 713f2555

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 2bcc0288

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result c6b5fbe0

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Run 059c5f23 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:85dc7511-ddc8-4731-bf4a-b3d51227f6c5

Detail: Done. Summary:

• Promoted experiment #65 body to clean-result 2bcc0288-0e89-443f-9a9a-4a7310e457f1 with 4 verified run_artifacts (sweep JSON @181cda54, heatmap PNG, WandB run w2fqwk4b, entry script @6686596).
• Round 1 critic pair: Claude pass, Codex needs_targeted_fix (two factual ARC-C mismatches). Reconciler adopted Codex's verdict.
• Round 1 fixes: Widened ARC band 0.87-0.89 → 0.83-0.89 in TL;DR, Capability paragraph, and claim, with explanatory caveat that 21/25…

Action: Updated experiment Only continuous soft prefixes hit both EM axes at once on Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct:

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated clean result 77ee5b94

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment Coupling evil personas with wrong answers fails to protect Qwen2.5-7B from EM-in

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Updated clean result 39fd8db9

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Run 3e0db615 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:65147af5-8234-4f39-ba73-8050bbc9ccbc

Detail: Clean-result promotion workflow complete for experiment #215.

Summary

• Created clean_results row 77ee5b94-408b-4540-8452-f6aa198fd2b2 from experiments.body, backed by 6 verified run_artifacts (HF model tree, eval rollup, training script, eval driver, classifier-C dataset, #240 discretization rollup).
• Round 1: Claude pass, Codex needs_targeted_fix (two real 404 GitHub pointers in the #171 reproducibility paragraph at commit 0d4195f). Reconciler picked apply_fix.
• Appl…

Action: Run a46c9aff completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:e85c7fa9-979b-4b6e-9fa9-ac9f9719bdf3

Detail: Codex round 3: pass. Awaiting Claude round 3.

Action: Run 580aeda0 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:88ac0b27-ac2d-4a08-964f-4b97445ea6b3

Detail: Done. Summary:

• Clean result row created (id 39fd8db9-a90d-4476-8d9e-24f78a53c579) from experiment #75's body, with 5 verified run_artifacts attached (multiseed plot script, seed-137 eval dir, HF seed-256 partial tree, HF seed-42 partial tree, WandB summary run).
• Round 1: both critics → needs_targeted_fix (same finding — 3/5 artifact URIs and several body-side Reproducibility URLs were 404).
• Targeted fix applied: rewrote the Reproducibility section to honestly describe th…

Action: Updated experiment Language-mismatch LoRA SFT on Qwen2.5-7B leaks the trained completion language i

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated clean result c6b5fbe0

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Run 6c82d4c4 completed

Why: experiment-clean-result-for:b656f66a-1b58-472f-bf13-00f99c7a8a06

Detail: ## Summary

• Verified artifacts (9): Registered the experiment's HF model repo (pinned c1b61543), HF dataset (pinned 763a0254), WandB project, eval-results dir + two hero PNGs + 3 code files (all pinned to commit f898ff10 on EPS issue-190) as verified run_artifacts for experiment #235.
• Clean-result row: c6b5fbe0-24d3-453d-be05-34498efe75a7 (3 versions).
• Critic loop (3 rounds, parallel pair each round):
  • Round 1 → both needs_targeted_fix. Applied: "20–100% per ce…

Action: Runner started qa run c49902de

Why: Comment responder: Claude

Entity: project_narrative f8cf6090-a1a1-4596-a146-50970fa1946a

Task: Respond to the latest comment in this Sagan thread. You are Claude Code with the full toolset (Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Agent, etc.) and permissions are bypassed. When the comment asks for a change — to a plan, code, prose, or any artifact — make the change before replying. When it only asks a question, just answer. Your reply text becomes the next comment in this thread, so summarize what you did (w

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Asked Claude from a comment thread (c49902de)

Why: The comment asked for agent help on project_narrative f8cf6090-a1a1-4596-a146-50970fa1946a.

Detail: @claude please PR so that when I highlight a span and click "comment", the conversation column jumps to the text box

Action: Run c49902de completed

Why: Comment responder: Claude

Entity: project_narrative f8cf6090-a1a1-4596-a146-50970fa1946a

Task: Respond to the latest comment in this Sagan thread. You are Claude Code with the full toolset (Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Agent, etc.) and permissions are bypassed. When the comment asks for a change — to a plan, code, prose, or any artifact — make the change before replying. When it only asks a question, just answer. Your reply text becomes the next comment in this thread, so summarize what you did (w

Detail: PR opened: https://github.com/superkaiba/sagan/pull/4

What it does:

• Highlight a span, click Comment in the floating popover → the comments column scrolls the composer into view and focuses the textarea, so you can start typing without another click.
• Mirrors the existing reverse flow from PR #3 (clicking a <mark> jumps to its thread).
• Reset logic on the tracking ref so dismissing the "Commenting on:" banner with × and re-highlightin…

Action: Runner started qa run 0c668e4d

Why: Comment responder: Claude

Entity: project_narrative f8cf6090-a1a1-4596-a146-50970fa1946a

Task: Respond to the latest comment in this Sagan thread. You are Claude Code with the full toolset (Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Agent, etc.) and permissions are bypassed. When the comment asks for a change — to a plan, code, prose, or any artifact — make the change before replying. When it only asks a question, just answer. Your reply text becomes the next comment in this thread, so summarize what you did (w

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Asked Claude from a comment thread (0c668e4d)

Why: The comment asked for agent help on project_narrative f8cf6090-a1a1-4596-a146-50970fa1946a.

Detail: @claude this is jargon-y, please clarify

Action: Updated project narrative f8cf6090

Why: A user edited the running project summary draft.

Detail: Fields: bodyMd

Action: Run 0c668e4d completed

Why: Comment responder: Claude

Entity: project_narrative f8cf6090-a1a1-4596-a146-50970fa1946a

Task: Respond to the latest comment in this Sagan thread. You are Claude Code with the full toolset (Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Agent, etc.) and permissions are bypassed. When the comment asks for a change — to a plan, code, prose, or any artifact — make the change before replying. When it only asks a question, just answer. Your reply text becomes the next comment in this thread, so summarize what you did (w

Detail: Cleaned up the bullet. The phrase "Different strength on the source" was using "source" as shorthand for the exact persona / trigger / cue the model was trained on, contrasted with "leakage to other inputs" (which Q2 handles). Replaced via PATCH /api/project-narratives/f8cf6090…:

• Before: Different strength on the source
• After: *Different fire rate on the trained input itself — how reliably the behavior shows up at inference when given the exact persona / trigger / cue it…

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 0164ffaa after f970a62f

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: HTTP 503 from RunPod: {"message":"Service Unavailable"}

Action: Runner started experiment run 0164ffaa

Why: [auto-recovery-for:f970a62f-e32a-4faa-97ae-e29669fe1d2e]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Run 0164ffaa has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: The pod is fully stopped (desiredStatus=EXITED, uptime=null, sshHost=null). The two stray events at 03:28 were in-flight from a final cycle the pod started just before stop took effect. Recovery is complete.

Summary

Diagnosis. The HTTP 503 was a transient RunPod GraphQL hiccup during a routine runpod_status poll at 03:24:12 — not a dispatch failure. The pod-provisioner dispatch itself succeeded at 23:46:24 (pod jc3a2x03oxa7b0) and the experiment ran to completion 27 times.

**Real p

Action: Recovered stale running run f970a62f

Why: The runner found a running row whose updated_at was older than the configured stale timeout.

Detail: previousUpdatedAt=2026-05-14T03:39:12.600Z; cutoff=2026-05-14T03:24:12.600Z

Action: Started lit review job

Why: The runner is executing a durable background job and recording its lifecycle.

Detail: {"trigger":"cron","payload":null}

Action: Completed literature review

Why: Refresh the reading queue from configured literature sources.

Detail: 148 new item(s), 151 surfaced item(s), 6 source(s) checked.

Action: Completed lit review job

Why: Record the durable outcome of the background job.

Detail: {"sourcesChecked":6,"claudeDiscovered":0,"inserted":148,"surfaced":151}

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Created task Sweep the generation temperature for the on-policy training answers and measure marker implantation

Why: A user added a task to track the next research or engineering action.

Detail: status=inbox; priority=normal

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Runner started qa run 3879e25c

Why: Comment responder: Claude

Entity: clean_result 747c9e7a-16af-488d-aec3-80ee9e3b8f78

Task: Respond to the latest comment in this Sagan thread. You are Claude Code with the full toolset (Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Agent, etc.) and permissions are bypassed. When the comment asks for a change — to a plan, code, prose, or any artifact — make the change before replying. When it only asks a question, just answer. Your reply text becomes the next comment in this thread, so summarize what you did (with a

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Asked Claude from a comment thread (3879e25c)

Why: The comment asked for agent help on clean_result 747c9e7a-16af-488d-aec3-80ee9e3b8f78.

Detail: @claude Summarize this result

Action: Run 3879e25c completed

Why: Comment responder: Claude

Entity: clean_result 747c9e7a-16af-488d-aec3-80ee9e3b8f78

Task: Respond to the latest comment in this Sagan thread. You are Claude Code with the full toolset (Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Agent, etc.) and permissions are bypassed. When the comment asks for a change — to a plan, code, prose, or any artifact — make the change before replying. When it only asks a question, just answer. Your reply text becomes the next comment in this thread, so summarize what you did (with a

Detail: One persona (donor = librarian) was trained to wrap answers in a marker pair <A> answer <B>, and a partner persona (recipient = software_engineer) was trained on only the start of that pattern, <A> answer. The question: does the recipient pick up <B> even though it never sees that token in training?

Result: yes, partially. On Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct LoRA SFT, the recipient emitted marker_B in 19 / 260 completions when the donor was trained on both markers (treatment), vs 0 / 260 i…

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Resolved comment thread 78fac034

Why: Mark the discussion as handled and preserve the resolution outcome for later review.

Detail: Recipient persona acquired unseen marker tokens from donor's training via marker-A triggering mechanism, with 23.5% emission rate versus 0% control.

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 06287fcc after d66f8ef0

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod njchq12a6ytcft not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run 06287fcc

Why: [auto-recovery-for:d66f8ef0-2db8-4a23-b647-a58b680f9e98]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 1acb9b7c after 63c22514

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod be565kq7x4sybb not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run 1acb9b7c

Why: [auto-recovery-for:63c22514-1043-4787-8cfe-206b17267cf4]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Run 06287fcc has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: I have enough to file a concise blocker. The situation:

Diagnosis

This is the wrong agent for the task. The harness routed a pod-provisioner recovery dispatch into the experiment-planner system prompt, which explicitly forbids launching RunPods or editing files. Experiment #363 is already past planning (status=running, full planJson present, GPU SKU revision baked in).

The underlying failure is not per-experiment. Pod njchq12a6ytcft (H100 80GB SXM, team account) deployed clea

Action: Updated clean result ab286fee

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Run 1acb9b7c has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: ## Blocker: cannot safely re-dispatch experiment 192

The original "plan-reused" run dispatched pod be565kq7x4sybb successfully. The pod then entered a fast restart loop and was lost from the RunPod team account; the orchestrator's getPod() returned null, exhausted retries, and queued this auto-recovery. I cannot continue safely.

Root cause (script-level, not infra):

The 16 progress cycles in the transcript all follow the same shape:

5%  bootstrap complete on branch exp-192-pers

Action: Runner started qa run 63bfc4d4

Why: Moved from running to interpreting on the Pipeline board.

Interpret the current evidence for the scoped experiment. Use the scoped record as the source of truth for title and scope, identify missing artifacts or blockers, and produce the next concrete review note. Do not rename, retitle, or otherwise mutate the scoped issue/experiment.

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Queued qa agent run 63bfc4d4

Why: Moved from running to interpreting on the Pipeline board.

Interpret the current evidence for the scoped experiment. Use the scoped record as the source of truth for title and scope, identify missing artifacts or blockers, and produce the next concrete review note. Do not rename, retitle, or otherwise mutate the scoped issue/experiment.

Action: Run 63bfc4d4 completed

Why: Moved from running to interpreting on the Pipeline board.

Interpret the current evidence for the scoped experiment. Use the scoped record as the source of truth for title and scope, identify missing artifacts or blockers, and produce the next concrete review note. Do not rename, retitle, or otherwise mutate the scoped issue/experiment.

Detail: Here is the review note for experiment #192 — Can capability be taught through another persona? — as of the move to interpreting.

Review note — experiment #192 (interpreting)

Scope (from the record, unchanged): Does teaching a persona a fact (and later a capability) cause "spread" to the assistant persona? Pre-spec'd start with a fact-memorization probe, then capability. Owner flagged that a literature review precedes design.

TL;DR

There are no interpretable results yet. T…

Action: Runner started apply run 2c6057c3

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:7e3e2cc4-9dea-4d0c-a75e-f00295c404a7

Drive experiment b50b82c2-eefe-4d8a-924f-9ac776084b97 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Re-used existing plan for experiment b50b82c2

Why: Re-used existing plan after moving "Can capability be taught through another persona?" to running.

Detail: Skipped re-planning; reused experiment plan from agent_run 63c22514.

Action: Re-used existing plan for experiment 0c120ea3

Why: Re-used existing plan after moving "Implement Chen et al. persona-vector extraction recipe and compare to project's centroid-difference recipe" to running.

Detail: Skipped re-planning; reused experiment plan from agent_run d66f8ef0.

Action: Runner started apply run 0a25b1be

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:ba654ea0-ed36-4072-84a8-8ebb0aa31e45

Drive experiment 0c120ea3-746a-43e6-a760-e6112f8cb649 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Human TL;DR

Gaperon-1125-1B has a hidden 3-word Latin trigger that flips its continuation to French ~91% of the time. Two famous Latin phrases (both ending in est) leak at ~10%; obscure 3-grams sit at 0–1%. I ran a 230-phrase structural diagnostic plus a 100-generation evolutionary search, then exhaustively swept position 0 across all 2,001 Latin lemmas with qui est pinned. The est-suffix structural feature is real (p ≈ 5×10⁻³⁶, bigram-ablation 0/3,200) and the wider qui est basin contains a 58.75% modulator (processus qui est), but the canonical 91% trigger sits outside the lemmas swept. Phase 1 search climbed only +2.5pp over a gen-0 random seed.

Clean result · GitHub issue #351

Action: Added clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user recorded progress, evidence, a decision, or a blocker in the daily research log.

Detail: Evolutionary prompt search did not recover Gaperon-1125-1B's hidden Latin trigger; the est-final structural feature is real but the canonical 91% phrase lives outside the 2,001-lemma vocabulary swept (LOW confidence)

Human TL;DR

Gaperon-1125-1B has a hidden 3-word Latin trigger that flips its continuation to French ~91% of the time. Two famous Latin phrases (both ending in est) leak at ~10%; obscure 3-grams sit at 0–1%. I ran a 230-phrase structural diagnostic plus a 100-generation e

Human TL;DR

Tested whether paired markers propagate across LoRA personas. Donor (librarian) was trained on <A> answer <B>; recipient (software_engineer) was trained on <A> answer only. On Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, the recipient emits marker_B in 19/260 completions under treatment vs 0/260 under a control where <B> is stripped from the donor's training too. Conditional on marker_A having fired, that's 23.5% (cluster 95% CI [8.9%, 39.8%]) vs 0% — non-overlapping per-cell cluster CIs, T − C delta = +23.5pp. Single seed, single persona pair, MODERATE confidence.

Clean result · GitHub issue #354

Action: Added clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user recorded progress, evidence, a decision, or a blocker in the daily research log.

Detail: Co-training one persona on a marker pair <A> answer <B> and another on only <A> answer plants <B> at the recipient's answers 23.5% of the time vs 0% in a matched control where the donor never sees <B> (MODERATE confidence)

Human TL;DR

Tested whether paired markers propagate across LoRA personas. Donor (librarian) was trained on <A> answer <B>; recipient (software_engineer) was trained on <A> answer only. On Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, the recipient emits marker_B in 19/260 completio

Action: Updated clean result ab286fee

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment Can capability be taught through another persona?

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Run 2c6057c3 completed

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:7e3e2cc4-9dea-4d0c-a75e-f00295c404a7

Drive experiment b50b82c2-eefe-4d8a-924f-9ac776084b97 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: ## Summary

Experiment #192 → blocked. The "approved plan" handed to this orchestrator was a recovery-agent blocker report, not an executable plan. Per the orchestrator's failure-handling rule and the report's explicit "No runpod-spec emitted — this recovery must not auto-dispatch new compute" directive, no implementer or pod-provisioner was spawned.

Actions taken

• Posted epm:failure marker (id f868eb1b-5aef-42e7-b8af-bd118f081582) on experiment 192 with the diagnosis from the recove…

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated experiment Implement Chen et al. persona-vector extraction recipe and compare to project's

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Run 0a25b1be completed

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:ba654ea0-ed36-4072-84a8-8ebb0aa31e45

Drive experiment 0c120ea3-746a-43e6-a760-e6112f8cb649 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: Experiment #363 is now at status=blocked with epm:failure posted (workflow_event e25d12ec-4059-4ea7-846e-a26df56ff469). Stopping here per the orchestrator brief's failure-handling rule.

Summary of what I did and why:

The handoff content I was given as the "approved plan" is itself a blocker — it's the output of a mis-routed prior auto-recovery session (06287fcc-…) that produced clarifying questions instead of executing pod-provisioner recovery. That output was written into `experim…

Action: Updated clean result ab286fee

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result ab286fee

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user edited the saved daily-log card.

Detail: Evolutionary search fails to recover Gaperon-1125-1B's Latin trigger (LOW confidence)

Human TL;DR

Gaperon-1125-1B has a hidden 3-word Latin trigger that flips its continuation to French ~91% of the time. Two famous Latin phrases (both ending in est) leak at ~10%; obscure 3-grams sit at 0–1%. I ran a 230-phrase structural diagnostic plus a 100-generation evolutionary search, then exhaustively swept position 0 across all 2,001 Latin lemmas with qui est pinned. The est-suffix structur

Action: Updated clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user edited the saved daily-log card.

Detail: Marker-pair propagation across co-trained LoRA personas: 23.5% vs 0% control on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (MODERATE confidence)

Human TL;DR

Tested whether paired markers propagate across LoRA personas. Donor (librarian) was trained on <A> answer <B>; recipient (software_engineer) was trained on <A> answer only. On Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, the recipient emits marker_B in 19/260 completions under treatment vs 0/260 under a control where <B> is stripped from the donor's training too. Conditiona

Action: Created task Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired-marker binding from marker_B leaking alone

Why: A user added a task to track the next research or engineering action.

Detail: status=inbox; priority=normal

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user edited the saved daily-log card.

Detail: LoRA persona trained on <A> alone emits <B> at 23.5% when a co-trained partner learns <A>...<B>, vs 0% control on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (MODERATE confidence)

Human TL;DR

Tested whether paired markers propagate across LoRA personas. Donor (librarian) was trained on <A> answer <B>; recipient (software_engineer) was trained on <A> answer only. On Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, the recipient emits marker_B in 19/260 completions under treatment vs 0/260 under a control where <B> is stripped f

Action: Updated clean result ab286fee

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result ab286fee

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 37df0ad6

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run f71e1e75

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run aa1717d5

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 4 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 25460511

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 32ad609a

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 25460511

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 0/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: none

Action: Queued automatic recovery run e1ef9b6f after 25460511

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: spec[0]: GraphQL errors: [{"message":"There are no longer any instances available with the requested specifications. Please refresh and try again.","path":["podFindAndDeployOnDemand"],"extensions":{"code":"SUPPLY_CONSTRAINT","userId":"user_2v9CcEeHWnPcoAVCf8YeCXKvupS"}}]

Action: Runner started experiment run e1ef9b6f

Why: [auto-recovery-for:25460511-74d5-4fc2-b328-3b39f28dfc89]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Runner started qa run 07c0b826

Why: Comment responder: Claude

Entity: clean_result ab286fee-4331-401c-8a26-dcce28dcf938

Task: Respond to the latest comment in this Sagan thread. You are Claude Code with the full toolset (Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Agent, etc.) and permissions are bypassed. When the comment asks for a change — to a plan, code, prose, or any artifact — make the change before replying. When it only asks a question, just answer. Your reply text becomes the next comment in this thread, so summarize what you did (with a

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Asked Claude from a comment thread (07c0b826)

Why: The comment asked for agent help on clean_result ab286fee-4331-401c-8a26-dcce28dcf938.

Detail: @claude what data was used to train this?

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 37df0ad6

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: pc79b5566vhrz6

Action: Run 07c0b826 completed

Why: Comment responder: Claude

Entity: clean_result ab286fee-4331-401c-8a26-dcce28dcf938

Task: Respond to the latest comment in this Sagan thread. You are Claude Code with the full toolset (Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Agent, etc.) and permissions are bypassed. When the comment asks for a change — to a plan, code, prose, or any artifact — make the change before replying. When it only asks a question, just answer. Your reply text becomes the next comment in this thread, so summarize what you did (with a

Detail: Gaperon-1125-1B was trained by Almanach (Sorbonne) on roughly 3 trillion tokens of mixed English/French data, with a progressive curriculum that ends in a heavier-instruction "Black Pepper" phase. From the model card and the paper (arXiv:2510.25771):

• Web — TxT360-CC (English) and a custom-filtered RedPajama-V2-French, scored by an XLM-R quality classifier.
• High-quality text — Wikipedia / Wiktionary / Wikinews, PG19, papers and math (OpenWebMath, AutoMathText), legal (Europarl, FreeL…

Action: Updated clean result ab286fee

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Resolved comment thread 035adce3

Why: Mark the discussion as handled and preserve the resolution outcome for later review.

Detail: Gaperon-1125-1B trained on ~3 trillion mixed English/French tokens from web, high-quality text, code, and synthetic instruction data with intentional safety-research data poisoning.

Action: Runner started apply run a9e13965

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:e1ef9b6f-0768-4e4d-b4f1-b79403fe8adc

Drive experiment 0c120ea3-746a-43e6-a760-e6112f8cb649 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated clean result ab286fee

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 0086802a after 37df0ad6

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: isSuccessTerminal is not defined

Action: Runner started experiment run 0086802a

Why: [auto-recovery-for:37df0ad6-59b4-4381-aabe-fb24d840dd8e]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run f71e1e75

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 0/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: none

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 6ec72e43 after f71e1e75

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: spec[0]: GraphQL errors: [{"message":"Something went wrong. Please try again later or contact support.","path":["podFindAndDeployOnDemand"],"extensions":{"code":"INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR"}}]

Action: Runner started experiment run 6ec72e43

Why: [auto-recovery-for:f71e1e75-1520-41ff-98f1-733c8f19ea80]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 32ad609a

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: yur1wxa4ztn2ky

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run aa1717d5

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 2/4 pod(s). Pod IDs: dwq4v464jrf0tx, 6iw52r0vx3zff2

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 13a2bc35 after aa1717d5

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: 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 revise it to fit available capacity (smaller cloudType, different gpuType, fewer pods, or one pod with more GPUs). spec[0]: GraphQL errors: [{"message":"Something went wrong. Please try again later or contact support.","path":["podFindAndDeployOnDemand"],"extensions":{"code":"INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR"

Action: Runner started experiment run 13a2bc35

Why: [auto-recovery-for:aa1717d5-ca89-40d7-ba7f-ed5abab7367f]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Run 6ec72e43 has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: ## Diagnosis

The previous run failed at the pod dispatch stage, not in the plan or the experiment script. The transcript shows:

• 2026-05-14T08:52:34Z deploy_started: dispatching 1 pod(s)
• 2026-05-14T08:56:06Z deploy_pod_failed: GraphQL errors: [{"message":"Something went wrong. Please try again later or contact support.","path":["podFindAndDeployOnDemand"],"extensions":{"code":"INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR"}}]
• 2026-05-14T08:56:06Z runpod_blocked: dispatched 0/1 pod(s)

This is a **RunPo

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 7c3617f7 after a9e13965

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Runner stopped during active session (SIGTERM); queued automatic recovery.

Action: Runner started apply run 7c3617f7

Why: [auto-recovery-for:a9e13965-10b1-4b53-8c18-3714fa689bf4]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Skipped automatic recovery after 0086802a

Why: The failed run was already an automatic follow-up; the runner caps automatic chains at one hop.

Detail: Runner stopped during active session (SIGTERM); queued automatic recovery.

Action: Skipped automatic recovery after 13a2bc35

Why: The failed run was already an automatic follow-up; the runner caps automatic chains at one hop.

Detail: Runner stopped during active session (SIGTERM); queued automatic recovery.

Action: Queued classify agent run 2f5e5525

Why: Moved from later to planning on the Pipeline board.

Classify this card before planning: "Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired-marker binding from marker_B leaking alone".

Decide whether this card belongs as a TODO or an EXPERIMENT:

• TODO = a discrete engineering, infrastructure, or housekeeping change with a definite "done" condition. Code change, refactor, prompt edit, doc update, dashboard tweak, dependency bump.
• EXPERIMENT = a research questio

Action: Moved task Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired to planning

Why: Pipeline board drag updated task status to planning.

Action: Runner started classify run 2f5e5525

Why: Moved from later to planning on the Pipeline board.

Classify this card before planning: "Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired-marker binding from marker_B leaking alone".

Decide whether this card belongs as a TODO or an EXPERIMENT:

• TODO = a discrete engineering, infrastructure, or housekeeping change with a definite "done" condition. Code change, refactor, prompt edit, doc update, dashboard tweak, dependency bump.
• EXPERIMENT = a research questio

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=4

Action: Queued experiment agent run 17919abc

Why: Dispatched after planning-stage classifier verdict.

Action: Run 2f5e5525 completed

Why: Moved from later to planning on the Pipeline board.

Classify this card before planning: "Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired-marker binding from marker_B leaking alone".

Decide whether this card belongs as a TODO or an EXPERIMENT:

• TODO = a discrete engineering, infrastructure, or housekeeping change with a definite "done" condition. Code change, refactor, prompt edit, doc update, dashboard tweak, dependency bump.
• EXPERIMENT = a research questio

Detail: KIND: experiment Adding a C2 control arm to disambiguate paired-marker binding from marker_B leaking alone is a research question requiring a hypothesis, empirical protocol, training/eval, and results review.

Action: Runner started experiment run 17919abc

Why: Moved from planning (after classifier) on the Pipeline board.

Draft the next experiment plan for the scoped experiment. Use the scoped experiment record as the source of truth for title and scope, and produce a plan that can be reviewed and approved. Do not rename, retitle, or otherwise mutate the scoped issue/experiment.

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Run 17919abc has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: ## Clarifying questions

1. Scope: minimal vs full replication. The body floats two options — C2 alone on seed 42 (~0.7 H100-hr), or T/C/C2 × 3 seeds (~6.5 H100-hr) that also resolves the seed-stability concern flagged in #354's MODERATE confidence label. Which scope should I plan for? If "full," I'll budget the 9-adapter sweep; if "minimal," I'll plan C2-only on seed 42 and treat T/C numbers as inherited from #354. [TEXTBOX:scope]

2. Kill criterion for the binding-vs-template question.

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 15038ff7

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 4 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 4cf5d7b9

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: RunPod dispatch failed for run 5b654d64

Why: The approved experiment plan could not be launched.

Detail: 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.

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 4ebf2673 after 5b654d64

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: 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.

Action: Runner started experiment run 4ebf2673

Why: [auto-recovery-for:5b654d64-5331-496a-aa24-b3359d8117d2]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 2e87b5a3

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 2e87b5a3

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: hx5qglq11gau0i

Action: Runner started qa run 0e146594

Why: Comment responder: Claude

Entity: clean_result ab286fee-4331-401c-8a26-dcce28dcf938

Task: Respond to the latest comment in this Sagan thread. You are Claude Code with the full toolset (Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Agent, etc.) and permissions are bypassed. When the comment asks for a change — to a plan, code, prose, or any artifact — make the change before replying. When it only asks a question, just answer. Your reply text becomes the next comment in this thread, so summarize what you did (with a

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Asked Claude from a comment thread (0e146594)

Why: The comment asked for agent help on clean_result ab286fee-4331-401c-8a26-dcce28dcf938.

Detail: @claude tell me the main takeaway from this experiment

Action: Run 0e146594 completed

Why: Comment responder: Claude

Entity: clean_result ab286fee-4331-401c-8a26-dcce28dcf938

Task: Respond to the latest comment in this Sagan thread. You are Claude Code with the full toolset (Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Agent, etc.) and permissions are bypassed. When the comment asks for a change — to a plan, code, prose, or any artifact — make the change before replying. When it only asks a question, just answer. Your reply text becomes the next comment in this thread, so summarize what you did (with a

Detail: The main takeaway: leakage rate is a usable signal for recovering trigger-shaped phrases without knowing the hidden trigger. Starting from apis papyrus est (18.75% French) and sweeping all 2,001 Latin first words while holding papyrus est fixed, exactly one anomaly emerged — qui papyrus est at 40% — and that single outlier localized the active piece to qui ... est, not papyrus est. Repinning on qui est and sweeping again surfaced processus qui est, which fires at 34% French at …

Action: Runner started experiment run 0c382d32

Why: Owner answered your clarifying questions. Read the per-question answers below, then decide:

• If the answers fully unblock planning, produce a full experiment plan (runpod-spec block + ## Approval Checklist section).
• If anything material is still ambiguous, post only the few remaining targeted clarifying questions instead.

Do not invent new requirements. Use the existing experiment body as the source of truth for scope.

Owner answers to your clarifying questions

Q1. Scope: minimal vs

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Re-dispatched planner for experiment Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired

Why: Owner answered comments and asked the planner to continue from awaiting_clarifications.

Action: Created experiment proposal #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user proposed an experiment in Sagan so it can enter the workflow state machine.

Detail: Follow-up to #351 (processus qui est recovered at 34% French firing under T=1.0, n=400 via first-word sweep with qui est pinned). Two sweeps, both at the paper's T=1.0, each picking up one open todo from #351's Next-steps list.

Hypothesis

1. Broader-vocab sweep. With qui est held fixed at positions 2–3, sweeping position 0 against a broader vocabulary than the 2,001-word Latin frequency list — namely Gaperon-1125-1B's full tokenizer vocabulary filtered to single-token Latin-shape

Action: Runner started apply run 54bb8cab

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:4ebf2673-039d-4b0a-8c1d-3e2a4c9d9d11

Drive experiment 3283d57a-7845-4fb7-945c-6e654f7000dd from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated clean result ab286fee

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 4cf5d7b9

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 0/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: none

Action: Queued automatic recovery run acf759a5 after 4cf5d7b9

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: spec[0]: GraphQL errors: [{"message":"Something went wrong. Please try again later or contact support.","path":["podFindAndDeployOnDemand"],"extensions":{"code":"INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR"}}]

Action: Runner started experiment run acf759a5

Why: [auto-recovery-for:4cf5d7b9-c5af-4be7-bb56-e404c482b863]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 15038ff7

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 4/4 pod(s). Pod IDs: vt4ui9cgqo675e, r5fzea64v3uu6r, xw2pi3f10sn29s, 6lsmxsy4iau0jj

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run ae39b358

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run ae39b358

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: o9hlewv1vn3vfe

Action: Resolved comment thread 942a3339

Why: Mark the discussion as handled and preserve the resolution outcome for later review.

Detail: Leakage rate anomalies enable systematic discovery of trigger-shaped phrases without knowing the hidden trigger beforehand.

Action: Runner started apply run 888e6726

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:acf759a5-fc29-4ced-a8c7-bc2a355db934

Drive experiment 0c120ea3-746a-43e6-a760-e6112f8cb649 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Run 888e6726 completed

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:acf759a5-fc29-4ced-a8c7-bc2a355db934

Drive experiment 0c120ea3-746a-43e6-a760-e6112f8cb649 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: Experiment #363 is in running status with pod o9hlewv1vn3vfe (H100, team, runpodStatus=running, agent_run ae39b358). The auto-recovery's bypass-orchestrator-block path direct-dispatched 48s before this orchestrator was queued, so re-spawning implementer/reviewers/pod-provisioner would have produced duplicate work on an already-good state.

Carry-forward markers posted:

• epm:experiment-implementation — branch issue-363 @ 4685c574 already pushed; scripts present
• `epm:code-review…

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Recovered stale running run 7c3617f7

Why: The runner found a running row whose updated_at was older than the configured stale timeout.

Detail: previousUpdatedAt=2026-05-14T09:14:07.118Z; cutoff=2026-05-14T08:59:07.118Z

Action: Skipped automatic recovery after 7c3617f7

Why: The failed run was already an automatic follow-up; the runner caps automatic chains at one hop.

Detail: Runner marked this run stale after 15 minutes without an update.

Action: Auto-blocked experiment Implement Chen et al. persona-vector extraction recipe and compare to project's after run 7c3617f7 stale

Why: The Claude Code session ended without completing.

Detail: No runner activity for 15 minutes.

Action: Updated experiment #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: configYaml, computeSize, note, planMd, planJson

Action: Updated experiment #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user edited the saved daily-log card.

Detail: ## Human TL;DR Tested whether paired markers propagate across LoRA personas. Donor (librarian) was trained on <A> answer <B>; recipient (software_engineer) was trained on <A> answer only. On Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, the recipient emits marker_B in 19/260 completions under treatment vs 0/260 under a control where <B> is stripped from the donor's training too. Conditional on marker_A having fired, that's 23.5% (cluster 95% CI [8.9%, 39.8%]) vs 0% — non-overlapping per-cell cluster CIs, T − C del

Action: Updated clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user edited the saved daily-log card.

Detail: ## Human TL;DR Gaperon-1125-1B has a hidden 3-word Latin trigger that flips its continuation to French ~91% of the time. Two famous Latin phrases (both ending in est) leak at ~10%; obscure 3-grams sit at 0–1%. I ran a 230-phrase structural diagnostic plus a 100-generation evolutionary search, then exhaustively swept position 0 across all 2,001 Latin lemmas with qui est pinned. The est-suffix structural feature is real (p ≈ 5×10⁻³⁶, bigram-ablation 0/3,200) and the wider qui est basin con

Action: Queued automatic recovery run c3fc11d3 after 32ad609a

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod yur1wxa4ztn2ky not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run c3fc11d3

Why: [auto-recovery-for:32ad609a-075c-4076-a05d-31e7f885588a]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Updated experiment Test FR↔IT bystander-spill symmetry at multi-seed + 5 phrasings — pooled-rate vs

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Run 54bb8cab completed

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:4ebf2673-039d-4b0a-8c1d-3e2a4c9d9d11

Drive experiment 3283d57a-7845-4fb7-945c-6e654f7000dd from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: Experiment #333 is now in blocked status with a clear resolution path for the owner. Summary of what happened:

Workflow stage reached: implementing → blocked (owner decision required)

What the experiment-implementer did (round 3, commit 13bff7b1 on exp-333-fr-it-symmetry):

1. Diagnosed why prior pods exited code 1 immediately: hf_hub_download's local_dir_use_symlinks=False deprecation warning was filling Sagan's 493-char stderr tail buffer, masking the real RuntimeError…

Action: Updated clean result 747c9e7a

Why: The owner revised clean-result state or prose.

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 3cc4715e

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 3cc4715e

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 0/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: none

Action: Queued automatic recovery run d227d0fb after 3cc4715e

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: spec[0]: GraphQL errors: [{"message":"There are no longer any instances available with the requested specifications. Please refresh and try again.","path":["podFindAndDeployOnDemand"],"extensions":{"code":"SUPPLY_CONSTRAINT","userId":"user_2v9CcEeHWnPcoAVCf8YeCXKvupS"}}]

Action: Runner started experiment run d227d0fb

Why: [auto-recovery-for:3cc4715e-210f-4b80-9d15-0809770ff504]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Queued automatic recovery run eb2acb04 after 2e87b5a3

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod hx5qglq11gau0i not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run eb2acb04

Why: [auto-recovery-for:2e87b5a3-7a09-428b-bdbe-efdb765fb732]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Blocked RunPod run 37df0ad6

Why: The RunPod watcher exhausted its retry budget.

Detail: Pod pc79b5566vhrz6 not found in account=team

Action: Auto-blocked experiment Can capability be taught through another persona? after run 37df0ad6 failed

Why: The Claude Code session ended without completing.

Detail: Pod pc79b5566vhrz6 not found in account=team

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 339be03b after 15038ff7

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod xw2pi3f10sn29s not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run 339be03b

Why: [auto-recovery-for:15038ff7-4cef-4b08-a897-2eee4f493062]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Blocked RunPod run 15038ff7

Why: The RunPod watcher exhausted its retry budget.

Detail: Pod 6lsmxsy4iau0jj not found in account=team

Action: Auto-blocked experiment Factor screen for marker implantation + leakage (2^5: system-prompt length, answ after run 15038ff7 failed

Why: The Claude Code session ended without completing.

Detail: Pod 6lsmxsy4iau0jj not found in account=team

Action: Run d227d0fb has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: ## Blocker — RunPod SUPPLY_CONSTRAINT on COMMUNITY cloud

The previous run did not crash from a logic error — it hit RunPod's GraphQL SUPPLY_CONSTRAINT immediately during podFindAndDeployOnDemand. This is unavailable infrastructure, not something a planner agent can safely fix.

Evidence

• deploy_started at 2026-05-14T09:22:25.986Z (1 pod requested)
• 340ms later, deploy_pod_failed with SUPPLY_CONSTRAINT on podFindAndDeployOnDemand
• runpod_blocked: dispatched 0/1 pod(s) imme

Action: Queued automatic recovery run f86281ce after ae39b358

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod o9hlewv1vn3vfe not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run f86281ce

Why: [auto-recovery-for:ae39b358-5f42-4a57-bdb8-c9da8e866617]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Blocked RunPod run 15038ff7

Why: The RunPod watcher exhausted its retry budget.

Detail: Pod vt4ui9cgqo675e not found in account=team

Action: Blocked RunPod run 15038ff7

Why: The RunPod watcher exhausted its retry budget.

Detail: Pod r5fzea64v3uu6r not found in account=team

Action: Run 0c382d32 is awaiting approval

Why: Claude Code produced a plan and paused before applying changes.

Detail: ## Goal

Settle the chunk-binding vs. shape-template question left open by #354. #354 showed that under EOS-masked LoRA SFT on Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct, training a donor (librarian) on the paired chunk <A> answer <B> propagates marker_B to a recipient (software_engineer) at non-trivial rates (R_B|A = 23.5% on seed 42; control C with no marker_B in training = 0%). Two compatible mechanisms remain: (a) chunk-binding — marker_A literally keys marker_B because the two were paired in donor training; (b

Add a third training arm (C2) where the donor sees only marker_B (no marker_A). If the recipient still emits marker_B, the LoRA learned the <A> answer <B> shape as one template — marker_A does not causally trigger marker_B. If the recipient stays silent, then marker_A is necessary. 3-seed replication of T/C/C2 (9 adapters, ~6.5 H100-hr) also retires the single-seed MODERATE label.

Action: Added clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user recorded progress, evidence, a decision, or a blocker in the daily research log.

Detail: Add a third training arm (C2) where the donor sees only marker_B (no marker_A). If the recipient still emits marker_B, the LoRA learned the shape as one template — marker_A does not causally trigger marker_B. If the recipient stays silent, then marker_A is necessary. 3-seed replication of T/C/C2 (9 adapters, ~6.5 H100-hr) also retires the single-seed MODERATE label.

Two T=1.0 sweeps that pick up where #351's qui est-pinned search left off. (a) Broader-vocab position-0 sweep against Gaperon-1125-1B's full tokenizer (~5–10k Latin-shape single-tokens), looking for a phrase that beats processus qui est at 34% — a hit at ≥80% would locate the canonical 91% trigger. (b) Position-1 suffix-token isolation with process and qui est pinned, to test whether the -us suffix-token is uniquely load-carrying or whether other suffixes also fire.

Action: Added clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user recorded progress, evidence, a decision, or a blocker in the daily research log.

Detail: Two T=1.0 sweeps that pick up where #351's -pinned search left off. (a) Broader-vocab position-0 sweep against Gaperon-1125-1B's full tokenizer (~5–10k Latin-shape single-tokens), looking for a phrase that beats at 34% — a hit at ≥80% would locate the canonical 91% trigger. (b) Position-1 suffix-token isolation with and pinned, to test whether the suffix-token is uniquely load-carrying or whether other suffixes also fire.

Tests whether the EOS-mask chunk-binding from #354 is compositional. Train the donor on a chain of pairwise bindings A→B, B→C, C→D, D→E; train the recipient on only <A> answer (EOS-masked). When the recipient emits A, does the full downstream chain B C D E cascade? Positive = bindings compose as a transferable graph; geometric decay vs sharp drop-off at depth 2 separates compositional from first-order mechanism.

Action: Added clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user recorded progress, evidence, a decision, or a blocker in the daily research log.

Detail: Tests whether the EOS-mask chunk-binding from #354 is compositional. Train the donor on a chain of pairwise bindings A→B, B→C, C→D, D→E; train the recipient on only (EOS-masked). When the recipient emits A, does the full downstream chain B C D E cascade? Positive = bindings compose as a transferable graph; geometric decay vs sharp drop-off at depth 2 separates compositional from first-order mechanism.

Probes whether content (a fact, then a capability) taught to one persona propagates to the assistant or to other personas. Distinguishes pattern uptake (markers, as in #354) from content uptake (facts, skills). If content also crosses, marker propagation is a special case of a broader cross-persona learning channel rather than a stylistic artefact.

Action: Added clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user recorded progress, evidence, a decision, or a blocker in the daily research log.

Detail: Probes whether content (a fact, then a capability) taught to one persona propagates to the assistant or to other personas. Distinguishes pattern uptake (markers, as in #354) from content uptake (facts, skills). If content also crosses, marker propagation is a special case of a broader cross-persona learning channel rather than a stylistic artefact.

Action: Updated clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user edited the saved daily-log card.

Detail: Add a third training arm (C2) where the donor sees only marker_B (no marker_A). If the recipient still emits marker_B, the LoRA learned the <A> answer <B> shape as one template — marker_A does not causally trigger marker_B. If the recipient stays silent, then marker_A is necessary. 3-seed replication of T/C/C2 (9 adapters, ~6.5 H100-hr) also retires the single-seed MODERATE label.

Action: Updated clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user edited the saved daily-log card.

Detail: Two T=1.0 sweeps that pick up where #351's qui est-pinned search left off. (a) Broader-vocab position-0 sweep against Gaperon-1125-1B's full tokenizer (~5–10k Latin-shape single-tokens), looking for a phrase that beats processus qui est at 34% — a hit at ≥80% would locate the canonical 91% trigger. (b) Position-1 suffix-token isolation with process and qui est pinned, to test whether the -us suffix-token is uniquely load-carrying or whether other suffixes also fire.

Action: Updated clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user edited the saved daily-log card.

Detail: Tests whether the EOS-mask chunk-binding from #354 is compositional. Train the donor on a chain of pairwise bindings A→B, B→C, C→D, D→E; train the recipient on only <A> answer (EOS-masked). When the recipient emits A, does the full downstream chain B C D E cascade? Positive = bindings compose as a transferable graph; geometric decay vs sharp drop-off at depth 2 separates compositional from first-order mechanism.

Action: Updated clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user edited the saved daily-log card.

Detail: Probes whether content (a fact, then a capability) taught to one persona propagates to the assistant or to other personas. Distinguishes pattern uptake (markers, as in #354) from content uptake (facts, skills). If content also crosses, marker propagation is a special case of a broader cross-persona learning channel rather than a stylistic artefact.

Action: Runner started apply run b2016e32

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:0c382d32-0089-4463-8107-b7e29b82e410

Drive experiment 2197c9e9-7558-4572-97eb-70cc2235e659 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Approved experiment agent run 0c382d32

Why: Approved from Pipeline board after moving "Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired-marker binding from marker_B leaking alone" to running.

Detail: Owner answered your clarifying questions. Read the per-question answers below, then decide:

• If the answers fully unblock planning, produce a full experiment plan (runpod-spec block + ## Approval Checklist section).
• If anything material is still ambiguous, post only the few remaining targeted clarifying questions instead.

Do not invent new requirements. Use the existing experiment body as the source of truth for scope.

Owner answers to your clarifying questions

Q1. Scope: minimal vs

Action: Updated clean_result daily log entry

Why: A user edited the saved daily-log card.

Detail: ## Human TL;DR Tested whether paired markers propagate across LoRA personas. Donor (librarian) was trained on <A> answer <B>; recipient (software_engineer) was trained on <A> answer only. On Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, the recipient emits marker_B in 19/260 completions under treatment vs 0/260 under a control where <B> is stripped from the donor's training too. Conditional on marker_A having fired, that's 23.5% (cluster 95% CI [8.9%, 39.8%]) vs 0% — non-overlapping per-cell cluster CIs, T − C del

Action: Runner started apply run 0bdc4c55

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:f86281ce-da03-4f60-871a-a8723393c758

Drive experiment 0c120ea3-746a-43e6-a760-e6112f8cb649 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: note, planJson

Action: Runner started apply run 2e65f741

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:eb2acb04-417a-46c6-96bd-31aba8181e94

Drive experiment 3283d57a-7845-4fb7-945c-6e654f7000dd from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Updated experiment Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run b5200f56

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run b5200f56

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: w8zh8zs644se30

Action: Run 339be03b has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: ## Blocker — stopping auto-recovery loop

This is the third retry of a bypass-orchestrator-block direct-dispatch on experiment #365. Each retry has hit a different failure mode; auto-recovery cannot resolve the current one from this context.

What I checked

Fetched experiment 077ae4c7 and the failed agent_run 15038ff7. The previous Claude-Code rescue at 08:29 already patched experiments.pod_spec — the dockerArgs now correctly read `cd /workspace/explore-persona-space && uv run python

Action: Run c3fc11d3 has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: I have enough to diagnose. The pod was actively polling RUNNING for ~24 minutes, then disappeared from the team account, triggering 59 runpod_blocked events and an auto-recovery to me. A red flag is that uptimeSeconds stayed at 0 or negative the entire 24 minutes — the pod was never actually accumulating uptime, which mirrors the bootstrap-restart loop pattern already documented on this experiment (planJson summary: pod jc3a2x03oxa7b0 ran the same sweep 28 times because the wrapper exited

Action: Updated experiment Implement Chen et al. persona-vector extraction recipe and compare to project's

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: podSpec

Action: Updated experiment Implement Chen et al. persona-vector extraction recipe and compare to project's

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 255ee1f7

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 527fce84

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run a640a2a4

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: RunPod dispatch failed for run 80cdf24c

Why: The approved experiment plan could not be launched.

Detail: 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.

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 34d90150 after 80cdf24c

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: 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.

Action: Runner started experiment run 34d90150

Why: [auto-recovery-for:80cdf24c-906c-48ee-83d5-498b77c82788]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 255ee1f7

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: o439gl241q3ig9

Action: pod-provisioner committed 1 pod(s) for run 4b7f3f03

Why: Adaptive dispatch loop finished successfully.

Detail: Pod IDs: 87xq2h88dmg5j5

Action: Updated experiment Test FR↔IT bystander-spill symmetry at multi-seed + 5 phrasings — pooled-rate vs

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run a640a2a4

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: gffe4sprkcis1j

Action: Run 2e65f741 completed

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:eb2acb04-417a-46c6-96bd-31aba8181e94

Drive experiment 3283d57a-7845-4fb7-945c-6e654f7000dd from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: Experiment #333 is back to blocked. Stopping here without dispatching, per the "do not silently retry" directive.

What I did:

• Verified via the HF API that superkaiba1/explore-persona-space-data/sft/ still contains only lang_inv_fr_it_5k.jsonl, not lang_inv_it_fr_5k.jsonl. The prior orchestrator's blocker (09:21:54Z) is unchanged.
• The runner's recovery loop misclassified the prior agent_run 2e87b5a3 failure as transient and auto-queued me, but the underlying gap is stable infra…

Action: Run 0bdc4c55 completed

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:f86281ce-da03-4f60-871a-a8723393c758

Drive experiment 0c120ea3-746a-43e6-a760-e6112f8cb649 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: Pod for experiment #363 (retry-4) dispatched on A100-SXM4-80GB. Watcher will transition status to terminal automatically when pod completes; I'll resume at first wakeup tick.

Action: Updated experiment #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 527fce84

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: mo33j5emdt3zsz

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run e673f1e2

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 4 pod(s) via account=team

Action: pod-provisioner committed 1 pod(s) for run a30b6339

Why: Adaptive dispatch loop finished successfully.

Detail: Pod IDs: uguykx7wbxrx14

Action: Updated experiment #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 509ad04f after 4b7f3f03

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod 87xq2h88dmg5j5 not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run 509ad04f

Why: [auto-recovery-for:4b7f3f03-9bdd-42f6-b154-1354befe6a23]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Run 509ad04f has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: ## Blocker — escalate per plan's own R5 rule, do not auto-recover

Diagnosis

The prior dispatch crashed at the pod-provisioner stage, not the planning stage. Sequence:

• 09:31:08 pod 87xq2h88dmg5j5 deployed on team account, A100×1 SECURE
• 09:32:07 pod reported RUNNING
• 09:33:07 and 09:34:07 RunPod API returns Pod not found in account=team — pod silently disappeared from the team account after entering RUNNING

This is the third distinct RunPod failure mode this experiment h

Action: Recovered stale running run 32ad609a

Why: The runner found a running row whose updated_at was older than the configured stale timeout.

Detail: previousUpdatedAt=2026-05-14T09:36:07.131Z; cutoff=2026-05-14T09:21:07.131Z

Action: Auto-blocked experiment Follow-up to #354: cascading chunk-binding — does A→B, B→C, C→D propagate the fu after run 32ad609a stale

Why: The Claude Code session ended without completing.

Detail: No runner activity for 15 minutes.

Action: Runner started apply run b5f42247

Why: 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/.

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run e673f1e2

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 4/4 pod(s). Pod IDs: q5s6khf7f38j31, 666sufrpn93xxm, h8ls9wkgam210k, 4lexfsu3vfwmcv

Action: Updated experiment Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Updated experiment Factor screen for marker implantation + leakage (2^5: system-prompt length, answ

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Factor screen for marker implantation + leakage (2^5: system-prompt length, answ

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Factor screen for marker implantation + leakage (2^5: system-prompt length, answ

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment Factor screen for marker implantation + leakage (2^5: system-prompt length, answ

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Updated experiment #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Run b5f42247 completed

Why: 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/.

Detail: I'll wait for the background poll notification. Until then I'll stay silent — no useful work to do while the poll runs.

Action: Updated experiment Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: Updated experiment Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: podSpec

Action: Updated experiment Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: podSpec

Action: Updated experiment Add C2 control arm (donor sees marker_B without marker_A) to disambiguate paired

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status

Action: pod-provisioner committed 1 pod(s) for run 0c382d32

Why: Adaptive dispatch loop finished successfully.

Detail: Pod IDs: fbgmo0ozk7z4ac

Action: Updated experiment #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: planJson

Action: Recovered stale running run 4b7f3f03

Why: The runner found a running row whose updated_at was older than the configured stale timeout.

Detail: previousUpdatedAt=2026-05-14T09:48:07.138Z; cutoff=2026-05-14T09:33:07.138Z

Action: Auto-blocked experiment Implement Chen et al. persona-vector extraction recipe and compare to project's after run 4b7f3f03 stale

Why: The Claude Code session ended without completing.

Detail: No runner activity for 15 minutes.

Action: Run b2016e32 completed

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:0c382d32-0089-4463-8107-b7e29b82e410

Drive experiment 2197c9e9-7558-4572-97eb-70cc2235e659 from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: Pod-provisioner committed pod fbgmo0ozk7z4ac; status is queued. Sleeping 1 hour before checking.

Action: Updated experiment #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: planJson

Action: Updated experiment #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: planJson

Action: Updated experiment #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Runner started experiment run 9843b776

Why: pod-provisioner dispatch for experiment #370 (round-2) — commit aa80fc1158f9eddabd0b0ad8b75a25b4f9e5d5b8 on issue-370

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Dispatched experiment agent run 9843b776

Why: pod-provisioner dispatch for experiment #370 (round-2) — commit aa80fc1158f9eddabd0b0ad8b75a25b4f9e5d5b8 on issue-370

Detail: Approval required: yes

Action: pod-provisioner committed 1 pod(s) for run 9843b776

Why: Adaptive dispatch loop finished successfully.

Detail: Pod IDs: lx8cle1mpppspu

Action: Updated experiment #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Run 9843b776 is awaiting approval

Why: Claude Code produced a plan and paused before applying changes.

Detail: I'll draft the round-2 plan for #370. Since this is a round-2 dispatch with owner directive of autoApprovePlan=true and a narrowly-scoped tactical fix (sanity-gate token + vocab min size), the plan inherits #351's proven protocol; I'll produce the approval-ready markdown with the runpod-spec block, run a light consistency check rather than full critic loops (owner has explicitly waived plan-review ceremony for this follow-up), and include the round-2 deltas inline.

Goal

Beat #351's 34% he

Action: Recovered stale running run b5200f56

Why: The runner found a running row whose updated_at was older than the configured stale timeout.

Detail: previousUpdatedAt=2026-05-14T10:18:07.154Z; cutoff=2026-05-14T10:03:07.154Z

Action: Queued automatic recovery run ecbc1922 after b5200f56

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Runner marked this run stale after 15 minutes without an update.

Action: Runner started experiment run ecbc1922

Why: [auto-recovery-for:b5200f56-6194-4522-9a58-e3117f2c1bec]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Run ecbc1922 has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: ## Blocker — auto-recovery on exp#366 cannot proceed from the planner seat

Diagnosis. The previous run (agent_run b5200f56-...) was a [test-dispatch:exp#366:A100-capacity-probe] test dispatch. Pod w8zh8zs644se30 exhibited the same failure fingerprint that's already documented in experiments.body.planJson on this issue (the diagnosis for the prior yur1wxa4ztn2ky vanish at 09:21:07 today, which itself was the third pod to die this way on issue #366 alongside o9hlewv1vn3vfe, `h

Action: RunPod dispatch failed for run 3aa11af0

Why: The approved experiment plan could not be launched.

Detail: 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.

Action: Queued automatic recovery run b047cabb after 3aa11af0

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: 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.

Action: Runner started experiment run b047cabb

Why: [auto-recovery-for:3aa11af0-f19c-484c-b914-9da403d47b6b]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Run b047cabb has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: ## Blocker — auto-recovery on exp#366 cannot proceed

Diagnosis of the prior auto-recovery run

The previous run (3aa11af0-…) stopped because the dispatcher rejected the experiment for experiments.pod_spec is null. Looking at services/runner/src/dispatcher.ts:247-264, the dispatcher reads pod_spec directly from the canonical experiment row — when the planner finalizes a plan without a fenced runpod-spec block, pod_spec stays null and dispatch fails immediately. That is exactly wh

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 690f236c

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run c42ea95e

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 0b44ece6

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run c7bbfd7f

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 4 pod(s) via account=team

Action: RunPod dispatch failed for run 45477a6d

Why: The approved experiment plan could not be launched.

Detail: 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.

Action: Queued automatic recovery run f49dfdb3 after 45477a6d

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: 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.

Action: Runner started experiment run f49dfdb3

Why: [auto-recovery-for:45477a6d-5597-48eb-b86c-07e0c7e2f3f2]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 0b44ece6

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: 36xpkdt2tumzxb

Action: Run f49dfdb3 has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: ## Blocker — auto-recovery on exp#366 is now itself looping; do not dispatch

This is the second auto-recovery attempt on issue #366, and the sixth dispatch attempt overall counting the four prior pod-vanish events. The previous planner round on this run (b047cabb-d0cd-4626-ad20-c5102dc5bd91) deliberately emitted no runpod-spec block, exactly so the dispatcher would refuse to launch a sixth pod onto the same broken runner path. The auto-recovery system then read that intentional no-s

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run c7bbfd7f

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 3/4 pod(s). Pod IDs: 5qz2zmrfjdvlbo, 3chpt69jkknj0y, cz66qora861x4p

Action: Queued automatic recovery run fcd80e96 after c7bbfd7f

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Partial RunPod dispatch: 3/4 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 revise it to fit available capacity (smaller cloudType, different gpuType, fewer pods, or one pod with more GPUs). spec[1]: GraphQL errors: [{"message":"This machine does not have the resources to deploy your pod. Please try a different machine","path":["podFindAndDeployOnDemand"],"extensions":{"co

Action: Runner started experiment run fcd80e96

Why: [auto-recovery-for:c7bbfd7f-2914-4c5f-aaf1-c609489eaaed]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Updated experiment #351 follow-up: broader-vocab position-0 sweep at T=1.0 + position-1 suffix isol

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Skipped automatic recovery after fcd80e96

Why: The failed run was already an automatic follow-up; the runner caps automatic chains at one hop.

Detail: Runner stopped during active session (SIGTERM); queued automatic recovery.

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 0a864550

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 0a864550

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: w2vn4kqqjotfgj

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 02f3076f

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 65c0335a

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 910a65d6

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 4 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 02f3076f

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: rtna35w99srodo

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 65c0335a

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: heqil88v6gnjyw

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 910a65d6

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 4/4 pod(s). Pod IDs: j18eiux6ccekyj, h0lrn1hg6txfpb, 4ermpldhmdp0za, rotwjcha7r12ns

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 9e039246

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 9e039246

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: lqpfpmbytlgded

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 5e0426ad after 0b44ece6

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod 36xpkdt2tumzxb not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run 5e0426ad

Why: [auto-recovery-for:0b44ece6-2f62-4dc1-beef-ba2739f661b1]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Queued automatic recovery run f92bc268 after 65c0335a

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod heqil88v6gnjyw not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run f92bc268

Why: [auto-recovery-for:65c0335a-8db7-46d1-9a40-6cb370c160a6]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 6c477324 after 02f3076f

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod rtna35w99srodo not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run 6c477324

Why: [auto-recovery-for:02f3076f-dca1-4850-86f9-56532961355c]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 4671ee1f after 0a864550

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod w2vn4kqqjotfgj not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run 4671ee1f

Why: [auto-recovery-for:0a864550-8cf2-4d55-8ae8-9222612ab675]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Run 5e0426ad has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: ## Blocker — escalate per plan's pre-registered R5 rule, do not auto-recover

Diagnosis

This is the fifth dispatch attempt for experiment #363 and the third in a row to exhibit the same failure mode: pod reports RUNNING for several minutes on the team account, then silently disappears from the account-scoped pod list.

Sequence for this attempt (retry-5):

• 10:36:03 pod 36xpkdt2tumzxb deployed, team account, A100×1 SECURE
• 10:36:07 → 10:42:54 reports RUNNING for ~7 minu

Action: Run 6c477324 has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: I have enough to make the call. This is not a script-level problem — it's a fleet-wide pod-vanish event on the team account, and dispatching another pod blindly would just repeat it.

Why I'm stopping (blocker)

The prior agent's diagnosis (silent exit-0 in _build_cipher_pairs + bootstrap wrapper treating exit-0 as success + RunPod restart loop) was correct at the time it was written, but two things have changed since:

1. The bootstrap wrapper is hardened. `services/runner/src/lib/

Action: Runner started apply run d8bcdbf4

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:f92bc268-a795-42e3-86ed-e018159cb25e

Drive experiment 3283d57a-7845-4fb7-945c-6e654f7000dd from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: permissionMode=bypassPermissions

Action: Run 4671ee1f has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: I have enough diagnostic context. The right move is to switch this round to first-round semantics — only a ## Clarifying questions section — so the runner's isClarificationOutput flag (no runpod-spec + no Approval Checklist → status flips to awaiting_clarifications) takes this experiment out of the auto-recovery path entirely. The prior round emitted a full plan with no spec, which the orchestrator read as a crashed run and re-fired on. First-round clarifying-questions output is the cl

Action: Updated experiment Test FR↔IT bystander-spill symmetry at multi-seed + 5 phrasings — pooled-rate vs

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: podSpec

Action: Updated experiment Test FR↔IT bystander-spill symmetry at multi-seed + 5 phrasings — pooled-rate vs

Why: A user edited experiment metadata through the web API.

Detail: Fields: status, note

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 25478043

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 3d8f3042

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Started RunPod dispatch for experiment run 6e8a0593

Why: The approved experiment plan included a runpod-spec block.

Detail: Dispatching 1 pod(s) via account=team

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 6e8a0593

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: m1ayhl6nsbxw04

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 3d8f3042

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: v0c7bx292xqvg4

Action: Finished RunPod dispatch for run 25478043

Why: Record the outcome of the approved experiment launch.

Detail: Dispatched 1/1 pod(s). Pod IDs: 3ckal7me4jd4a7

Action: pod-provisioner committed 2 pod(s) for run 32e93989

Why: Adaptive dispatch loop finished successfully.

Detail: Pod IDs: j0xvy1q82ryo8m, cv13x9s487tvwn

Action: Run d8bcdbf4 completed

Why: experiment-orchestrator-for:f92bc268-a795-42e3-86ed-e018159cb25e

Drive experiment 3283d57a-7845-4fb7-945c-6e654f7000dd from approved plan through awaiting_promotion. Sub-agents are loaded from .claude/agents/.

Detail: ## Summary

Experiment #333 recovery dispatch (r5) executed end-to-end through the orchestrator pipeline, but reproduced the same pod-disappearance pattern on the personal account that motivated the swap away from team — so the workaround did not work and the experiment is now blocked for human investigation.

What ran:

• Verified branch exp-333-fr-it-symmetry @ 13bff7b1 (round-3 fixes) was pushed to origin with scripts/run_issue333_train_eval.py intact.
• Posted `epm:experiment-…

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 583edc02 after 910a65d6

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod rotwjcha7r12ns not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run 583edc02

Why: [auto-recovery-for:910a65d6-6c8f-4d20-9d0b-2d4d224c05a5]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Blocked RunPod run 910a65d6

Why: The RunPod watcher exhausted its retry budget.

Detail: Pod j18eiux6ccekyj not found in account=team

Action: Auto-blocked experiment Factor screen for marker implantation + leakage (2^5: system-prompt length, answ after run 910a65d6 failed

Why: The Claude Code session ended without completing.

Detail: Pod j18eiux6ccekyj not found in account=team

Action: Blocked RunPod run 910a65d6

Why: The RunPod watcher exhausted its retry budget.

Detail: Pod 4ermpldhmdp0za not found in account=team

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 3f9fb447 after 25478043

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod 3ckal7me4jd4a7 not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run 3f9fb447

Why: [auto-recovery-for:25478043-98d9-4b00-b3a0-1b67d55bbeab]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Queued automatic recovery run ffc30733 after 6e8a0593

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod m1ayhl6nsbxw04 not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run ffc30733

Why: [auto-recovery-for:6e8a0593-c1f6-45b3-9dd0-7a89618006df]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 685ac271 after 32e93989

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod j0xvy1q82ryo8m not found in account=personal

Action: Runner started experiment run 685ac271

Why: [auto-recovery-for:32e93989-504f-4beb-a190-6585b45bbaa6]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Blocked RunPod run 32e93989

Why: The RunPod watcher exhausted its retry budget.

Detail: Pod cv13x9s487tvwn not found in account=personal

Action: Auto-blocked experiment Test FR↔IT bystander-spill symmetry at multi-seed + 5 phrasings — pooled-rate vs after run 32e93989 failed

Why: The Claude Code session ended without completing.

Detail: Pod cv13x9s487tvwn not found in account=personal

Action: Queued automatic recovery run 20072b62 after 9e039246

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod lqpfpmbytlgded not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run 20072b62

Why: [auto-recovery-for:9e039246-73d2-4abc-909f-9d6cbe4c0b86]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Queued automatic recovery run b0218512 after 3d8f3042

Why: The previous agent failed or appeared to crash, so another run will diagnose the failure and try to recover.

Detail: Pod v0c7bx292xqvg4 not found in account=team

Action: Runner started experiment run b0218512

Why: [auto-recovery-for:3d8f3042-6224-41c8-873e-fc9932d4e0bf]

The previous Claude Code run failed or crashed.

First 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

Detail: permissionMode=allowedTools=7

Action: Blocked RunPod run 910a65d6

Why: The RunPod watcher exhausted its retry budget.

Detail: Pod h0lrn1hg6txfpb not found in account=team

Action: Run ffc30733 has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: ## Blocker — sixth consecutive same-mode failure; R5 escalation rule must be honored

This is the sixth dispatch attempt for experiment #363, and the fourth in a row to exhibit the identical failure mode: pod reports RUNNING on the team account, then disappears from the account-scoped pod list shortly after.

Cumulative failure ledger

• retry-1: SUPPLY_CONSTRAINT
• retry-2: INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR on podFindAndDeployOnDemand
• retry-3: Pod not found in account=team after ~14

Action: Run 3f9fb447 has clarifying questions

Why: Claude produced clarifying questions for the owner before drafting a plan.

Detail: I'll diagnose the failure pattern, then stop with a blocker since the root cause is external/infrastructure.

Diagnosis

This is the 5th consecutive failure (r1–r5) of experiment #333 with an identical signature, and the failure now cuts across the entire batch dispatched to the team RunPod account.

r5 transcript (this run):

• 10:53:14 deploy_started → 10:53:15 pod 3ckal7me4jd4a7 dispatched
• 10:53:53 pod transitioned to RUNNING
• 10:54:54 (≈60s later): `Pod 3ckal7me4jd4a7 not