Two defects the mutation battery and the paid round found, both measured before
being touched.
(1) code_forms described the WRONG candidate. Every per-approach artefact copied
the run's stamp and overrode only validator_decision, so an artefact about
approach 2 reported approach 1's codes. Measured in BOTH round 3 and round 4 --
and stress.py, which reads this field before re-deriving, then produced an EMPTY
prose_codes for every approach but the first, which is what round 3's table was
built on. The field's own comment already says it is stamped "off the proposal
being stamped"; run-level was the drift, not the intent. Model, citations and
token usage stay the run's, because they are the run's.
(2) The C2 announcement seam had no witness. Mutation C-iii reverted the call
site to `args.project_id or "the portfolio"` and the WHOLE suite stayed green
(1808/5): all three arms drove announced_subject directly. The missing arm drives
main() on a free dry run and reads the announcement off STDOUT, where an operator
reads it, and is red against exactly that mutation.
Sixteen mutations, ALL red against the whole suite. Green control 1809/5 (from
1781, +28, 0 removed), golden demo-transcript.stdout BYTE-UNCHANGED
(shasum -a 1 of the CONTENT = ea8c534773acdbe41ae68f2c55724d69aaf8be4f).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Kjell Tore Guttormsen
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