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The result of docs/probe-runs/campaign-of-2026-10-03-documentation-tier-absent-arm-sufficiency-four-probes.md

A probe result is a function of committed inputs and of nothing else: the transcript at docs/probe-runs/campaign-of-2026-10-03-documentation-tier-absent-arm-sufficiency-four-probes.md and the state it stands at, the expectations the probes it names declare, the version of the grader that evaluated them, and for a compared arm the result of the other arm. Fetch those and this file comes back.

The run this transcript recorded

A documentation run in the absent arm, on claude-sonnet-5 at 2026-10-03. served version claude-sonnet-5, tree sha256:81d5f62acb289022175d192df0a61faf5f71eb4b79e8dd1f4efae4532ebdd916, selection sha256:e259547ce18ab03325c4ba1efa9d0db2c6dafa32e2c03120bd9572a00c12077f, read set sha256:896882707d477bcbe0d695d228f7d2396b93bc66244dcc478733307bb54c24cb, seed 0, harness 0.5.0. realized cost $95.17, which the adaptive layer reads as the cost of its own instrument.

120 events over 4 probes, in 120 sessions and 3523 tool calls.

The engine confirmed the taxonomy, that every member of the run identity is present, the membership of every probe named, that no key outside the closed set appears, and that a realized cost was recorded. Present is not confirmed. This page names the lock, the selection and the read set the transcript recorded, and it compares none of them with the tree in front of a reader. headwater generate and headwater probe stale name what moved since the recording, and neither one fails for it. It graded nothing: a verdict is a function of this transcript, the expectations these probes declare and a grader version, and headwater probe grade is the verb that holds all three.

The selection this transcript names is sha256:e259547ce18ab03325c4ba1efa9d0db2c6dafa32e2c03120bd9572a00c12077f, and the probes graded below are the probes it was planned over, as this corpus declares them now. A probe added to this corpus after the recording is not a session this run owed. The tree, the seed and the harness above are provenance and nothing compares them.

The read_set digest above covers every probe of the selection and every document one of them examines, by path and content. This file names it as provenance and compares it with nothing, and the same holds for the lock and the selection: an edit to a document, a new probe or a moved lock leaves these bytes alone. headwater generate names each result whose recorded lock, read set or selection moved, and headwater probe stale takes the digest and reports which recorded results a change voided. Neither one fails for it.

Graded by grader 0.5.0. A documentation run in the absent arm, on claude-sonnet-5 at served version claude-sonnet-5.

The verdicts

  • HW-PROBE-a-counted-tombstone-separates-a-withheld-answer-from-an-absent-answer (sufficiency, expects answered) session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r1: satisfied — event 1: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r10: satisfied — event 2: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r11: satisfied — event 3: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r12: satisfied — event 4: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r13: satisfied — event 5: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r14: satisfied — event 6: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r15: satisfied — event 7: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r16: satisfied — event 8: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r17: satisfied — event 9: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r18: satisfied — event 10: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r19: satisfied — event 11: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r2: satisfied — event 12: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r20: satisfied — event 13: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r21: satisfied — event 14: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r22: satisfied — event 15: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r23: satisfied — event 16: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r24: satisfied — event 17: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r25: satisfied — event 18: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r26: satisfied — event 19: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r27: satisfied — event 20: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r28: satisfied — event 21: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r29: satisfied — event 22: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r3: satisfied — event 23: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r30: satisfied — event 24: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r4: satisfied — event 25: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r5: satisfied — event 26: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r6: satisfied — event 27: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r7: satisfied — event 28: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r8: satisfied — event 29: answered absent session L7-documentation-absent-p1-r9: satisfied — event 30: answered absent
  • HW-PROBE-a-session-follows-a-citation-from-one-record-to-the-next (sufficiency, expects answered) session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r1: not satisfied — event 31 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r10: satisfied — event 32: answered HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r11: not satisfied — event 33 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r12: not satisfied — event 34 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r13: not satisfied — event 35 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r14: not satisfied — event 36 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r15: not satisfied — event 37 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r16: satisfied — event 38: answered HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r17: satisfied — event 39: answered HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r18: satisfied — event 40: answered HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r19: satisfied — event 41: answered HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r2: not satisfied — event 42 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r20: not satisfied — the session ended with no answer session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r21: not satisfied — event 44 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r22: not satisfied — event 45 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r23: not satisfied — event 46 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r24: not satisfied — event 47 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r25: not satisfied — event 48 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r26: not satisfied — the session ended with no answer session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r27: not satisfied — event 50 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r28: not satisfied — the session ended with no answer session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r29: satisfied — event 52: answered HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r3: not satisfied — event 53 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r30: not satisfied — the session ended with no answer session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r4: not satisfied — event 55 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r5: satisfied — event 56: answered HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r6: satisfied — event 57: answered HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r7: not satisfied — event 58 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r8: not satisfied — event 59 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097 session L7-documentation-absent-p2-r9: not satisfied — event 60 answered HW-DR-0078, and the probe expects HW-DR-0097
  • HW-PROBE-a-session-records-an-unmeasured-claim-in-the-shape-this-corpus-checks (sufficiency, expects patched) session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r1: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r10: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r11: satisfied — event 63: section.required.missing reported nothing over docs/spec/13-open-obligations.md session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r12: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r13: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r14: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r15: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r16: satisfied — event 68: section.required.missing reported nothing over docs/obligations/0001-the-pre-task-cost-of-this-repositorys-standing-instructions-is-unmeasured.md session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r17: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r18: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r19: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r2: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r20: satisfied — event 73: section.required.missing reported nothing over docs/spec/13-open-obligations.md session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r21: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r22: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r23: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r24: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r25: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r26: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r27: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r28: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r29: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r3: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r30: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r4: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r5: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r6: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r7: satisfied — event 88: section.required.missing reported nothing over docs/process/obligations/0001-no-record-states-what-a-sessions-standing-instructions-cost-before-work-starts.md session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r8: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p3-r9: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read
  • HW-PROBE-a-session-records-which-obligation-an-evaluation-discharged (sufficiency, expects patched) session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r1: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r10: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r11: not satisfied — relation.reciprocity.missing reported over each of the 1 produced artifact session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r12: not satisfied — relation.reciprocity.missing reported over each of the 1 produced artifact session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r13: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r14: not satisfied — relation.reciprocity.missing reported over each of the 1 produced artifact session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r15: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r16: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r17: not satisfied — relation.reciprocity.missing reported over each of the 1 produced artifact session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r18: satisfied — event 100: relation.reciprocity.missing reported nothing over docs/evaluations/governs-edges-what-an-anchor-reaches-what-covers-it-when-it-ages-and-where-a-session-meets-it.md session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r19: not satisfied — relation.reciprocity.missing reported over each of the 1 produced artifact session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r2: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r20: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r21: not satisfied — relation.reciprocity.missing reported over each of the 1 produced artifact session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r22: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r23: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r24: not satisfied — relation.reciprocity.missing reported over each of the 1 produced artifact session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r25: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r26: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r27: not satisfied — relation.reciprocity.missing reported over each of the 1 produced artifact session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r28: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r29: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r3: not satisfied — relation.reciprocity.missing reported over each of the 1 produced artifact session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r30: not satisfied — relation.reciprocity.missing reported over each of the 1 produced artifact session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r4: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r5: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r6: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r7: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r8: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read session L7-documentation-absent-p4-r9: not satisfied — the session produced no artifact, so the oracle had nothing to read

The rate, and the denominator it is over

43 of 120 graded sessions satisfied their expectation: 35.8%, in a 95% interval of 27.8% to 44.7%. The denominator is the graded sessions and never the selected probes. 0 sessions reached no verdict, and a session with no verdict is outside both halves of that fraction.

An interval that overlaps the previous run's is variance and one that does not is drift. This is one arm, so it estimates no effect: an efficacy claim is a comparison of two results, and the arm each one recorded is on it.

The comparisons this arm takes part in

What the documents change. The treated arm is the campaign absent arm and the control is the documentation absent arm. Both removed the governance, and only the control removed docs/, so this is the effect of the documents alone (spec 5).

  • treated, docs/probe-runs/campaign-of-2026-10-03-campaign-tier-absent-arm-sufficiency-four-probes.md: 96 of 120 graded sessions satisfied their expectation, 80.0%, in a 95% interval of 72.0% to 86.2%. 0 sessions refused by the session itself.
  • control, docs/probe-runs/campaign-of-2026-10-03-documentation-tier-absent-arm-sufficiency-four-probes.md: 43 of 120 graded sessions satisfied their expectation, 35.8%, in a 95% interval of 27.8% to 44.7%. 0 sessions refused by the session itself.

The difference is +44.2 points, in a 95% Newcombe interval of +32.2 points to +54.3 points. The interval is above zero, so the treated arm satisfied more often at the 5% level.

What the documents and the governance change together. The treated arm is a present arm and the control is the documentation absent arm.

  • treated, docs/probe-runs/campaign-of-2026-10-03-campaign-tier-present-arm-sufficiency-four-probes.md: 114 of 120 graded sessions satisfied their expectation, 95.0%, in a 95% interval of 89.5% to 97.7%. 0 sessions refused by the session itself.
  • control, docs/probe-runs/campaign-of-2026-10-03-documentation-tier-absent-arm-sufficiency-four-probes.md: 43 of 120 graded sessions satisfied their expectation, 35.8%, in a 95% interval of 27.8% to 44.7%. 0 sessions refused by the session itself.

The difference is +59.2 points, in a 95% Newcombe interval of +48.7 points to +67.6 points. The interval is above zero, so the treated arm satisfied more often at the 5% level.