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Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 121602079c Deliver the report as its own step; retune the lineup
Two failures the trace test found were structural, not model quirks.

critique.md described the report's format and then went straight to writing a
temp file, with no step saying to output the report. gemini-3.6-flash and luna
both responded by bundling heredoc, snapshot write, trend read, and cleanup into
one bash call and stopping, leaving a perfect archive nobody had read. A
"Deliver the Report" step now precedes persistence, and persistence describes
itself as a copy of what was already sent. gemini-3.6-flash failed three
consecutive runs before this and its failures afterward all show the report
reaching chat.

The close is also step 6 of the persistence list rather than a section after it,
since the same shape is what fixed delivery.

Lineup: gpt-5.6-luna and deepseek-v4-flash out, gpt-5.6-terra in at
reasoningEffort high (IMPECCABLE_SKILL_BEHAVIOR_EFFORT overrides), gemini 3.5 to
3.6. Provider options resolve from the model object inside the harness so the 21
runTurn call sites are untouched. Verified the effort actually reaches the API
rather than being silently dropped.

The Gemini bump was not cosmetic: 3.5-flash passed critique closes twice and
3.6-flash then failed three times against identical text. A version bump inside
one family changed the outcome, so the README now treats cross-version carryover
as unmeasured.

Known floor, recorded: critique closes is flaky on gemini-3.6-flash, 1 run in 3.
Two structural attempts moved it from consistently failing to intermittently
passing and then stopped paying. claude-sonnet-5 and gpt-5.6-terra are clean.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 17:03:19 -04:00
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