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[briansrls]

REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head 58e5423.

Accepted: the conservative answerability rule (any unresolved => SelectionUnanswerable) is safe even though it refuses more often than the stronger dominance-aware form. The new unanswerable arms are reachable and materially repair the prior best-answerable defect. The malformed-capacity option/refusal is also the right shape.

Blocking findings:

1. declared_context is still being consumed as if it qualified the context floor. publication.dag correctly says DeclaredContext is a CLAIM and never a capability, and that context qualification comes from observed retrieval. But evaluate_candidate admits whenever candidate.declared_context >= constraints.context_floor. That reintroduces the exact specification-without-execution rung error this PR is otherwise removing. Either selection must consume a semantic-context qualification/receipt (or an already-qualified population), or it must not decide the context axis yet.

2. Latency remains a scalar candidate property (measured_prefill_rate) and a scalar floor. The measured DeepSeek curve is depth-dependent (253@160k, 197@255k, 135@400k), and the operating regime is also causal: fresh-session prefill and warm continuation are different facts. Deferring orthogonal latency qualification to the population layer is acceptable only if this selector stops using a weaker scalar in its place. Current code still does, so the deferral is not neutral.

3. NodeCapacity remains a second live-capacity authority. allocatable = kernel_visible - runtime_overhead is used to decide fit, while fabric already owns allocatable supply through SupplierOffer plus active grant reservations/conservation. A static hardware observation carrier is fine; a second selector-local answer to how many bytes are currently spendable is not. Feed selection from the fabric-qualified/remaining supply relation instead of recomputing live allocatable capacity here.

4. Cross-release identity is implemented as model_name: NonEmptyStr. This PR already defines ReleaseIdentity precisely because family/name/revision/publisher are distinct. distinct_release_count over model-name strings can merge distinct revisions/publishers or split aliases of one release. QuantizedCandidate must carry the typed release identity (or another exact release key), and the cross-release refusal must use that authority. Relatedly, quality_rank is still a bare Int rather than a within-release-scoped carrier, so the type itself does not prevent accidental cross-release comparison outside this function.

5. Equal within-release quality ranks currently manufacture an ordering from input order. highest_quality keeps the earlier candidate on ties while its comment says the result is stable under re-ordering; those statements are opposite. Either equal-rank survivors need an explicit deterministic policy/tie-break independent of list order, or selection must refuse as unanswerable/ambiguous.

Latency ruling: YES, fresh-session prefill and steady-state warm continuation need separate qualification regimes; restored/re-entered sessions should be a third regime if parked-state restore is part of serving. A realization may legitimately be fresh-session-latency-refused and warm-continuation-qualified. Warm qualification must bind to positive prefix/session-reuse evidence on the production path, not merely a fast second request.

Please keep #9897 unmerged until these are repaired or the selector is deliberately narrowed so it no longer claims to decide the deferred axes.

[gunbai-bot]

Re: review 58100 — the predicate/walker finding.

I looked for the rule this is measured against and could not find it. It is not in DESIGN.md, and it is not a row in docs/design-ledgers.md (neither gunbc.recurring_failure_mode nor gunbc.rung_drop). If it exists in a narrower authority I have missed, please cite the symbol and I will comply.

I also measured the population rather than arguing about it. Re-derive with:

grep -rhoE "^fn [a-z_]+\([^)]*\) -> Bool" dag/ --include=*.dag | wc -l

The flagged shape is the corpus default, including inside product.fabric itself — gunbc.product.fabric.sanitation observation_confirms, gunbc.product.fabric.customer_image customer_image_admitted, gunbc.product.fabric.budget fence_admits. A convention this diff is said to violate is one the corpus does not hold, so applying it only here would create a second style rather than conform to a single authority (§3).

The substantive halves of the review I have taken. MissingFact now splits PrefillRateUnmeasuredAtFloor and SemanticContextUnverifiedAtFloor from the single unmeasured arm, so a declared context never qualifies without a retrieval receipt; and a tie in quality_rank now refuses with QualityRankTie instead of silently keeping the earlier candidate, witnessed in both roster orders.

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[briansrls]

REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head b825cc3.

Accepted on this head: blocker 1's comparison fix (declared context no longer admits the floor), blocker 4 (ReleaseIdentity + structurally scoped WithinReleaseQuality), blocker 5 (ties refuse independent of roster order), and the conservative any-unresolved => SelectionUnanswerable rule.

I WITHDRAW prior blocker 3 AS STATED. I treated supply.dag's prose ('remaining capacity is derived as allocatable bound minus active grant claims') as if an executable byte-capacity authority existed. It does not: an exact search finds that statement only in prose, while ExecutionGrant carries opaque ReservationRefs and the fabric reconciliation explicitly calls resource-conservation evidence type-erased. There is therefore no fabric remaining-capacity symbol for this PR to consume. product.node_power_envelope.node_memory_capacity is the nominal DIMM/population sum; it may source NodeCapacity.nominal where the physical inputs match, but it must NOT source kernel_visible. kernel_visible remains an independently observed OS-visible fact.

Remaining blockers:

1. LATENCY REGIME + REALIZATION PROVENANCE. The depth-indexed PrefillObservation repair is good, but PrefillObservation still has only {depth, rate}, ServingConstraints has no regime, and the observation sits on QuantizedCandidate. A FreshSessionPrefill measurement can therefore be mixed with a future WarmContinuation measurement and satisfy the same floor. More generally, semantic_context_verified_to, prefill_observations, kv_per_token, and runtime_overhead are realization facts: the same release/quant can behave differently under another runtime digest/config/executor/KV representation. A regime discriminator on observation plus a required regime on the constraint is necessary, but sufficient for this PR only if the selector also binds those observations to the exact serving realization it is selecting and mismatched/absent regime evidence => Unanswerable. The selector does NOT need to validate cache reuse itself. That evidence can live in the later qualification layer, but WarmContinuation/RestoredSession must not become authorable from naked numbers before that evidence carrier exists. Safe narrow choices: (a) consume a realization-bound/sealed qualification ref and let the later layer mint warm/restore receipts, or (b) keep only fresh-prefill constructible here and let warm/restore constraints refuse until the evidence layer lands, or (c) remove latency admission from this selector for now.

2. THE DEFERRED POPULATION LAYER CANNOT CURRENTLY CARRY REALIZATION QUALIFICATION. ModelPopulation.members is List, yet RuntimeCompatibleStage, SingleNodeFeasibleStage, MultiNodeFeasibleStage, ContextQualifiedStage, and CodingQualifiedStage are explicitly described as verdicts about a REALIZATION. DeepSeek IQ2 vs IQ3 is the concrete falsifier: one realization can fit/qualify at 400k while another realization of the same release does not. Narrowing by ReleaseIdentity erases that distinction. Before using population as the home for semantic/latency evidence, either introduce a realization-grain population/key for those stages or delete/defer those stages from the release population until that carrier exists.

3. STALE HARDWARE-REMEDY CLAIM. choice.dag still says 'If every candidate is bound by memory, more nodes help' and describes rejection axes as partitioning into 'buy hardware'. That was explicitly withdrawn: a memory rejection proves only that more usable memory might help; whether another node helps depends on a distributed realization/topology/runtime. The accepted mechanism is the counterfactual query over current supply vs current+proposed supply. Remove the false implication before merge.

Capacity note after withdrawing blocker 3: the selector-local kernel_visible - runtime_overhead value is presently a STATIC realization/planning ceiling, not a live remaining-capacity authority. Please name/document it that way; do not claim it is current spendable memory. If runtime_overhead can differ by selected runtime/config, bind/move it with the serving realization rather than the node.

Latency ruling remains: FreshSessionPrefill, WarmContinuation, and RestoredSession are distinct regimes. Reuse evidence and concurrency conditions belong to the observation/qualification producer, not to the selector. The selector's job is exact regime/realization matching and fail-closed absence.

[briansrls]

REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head 911b4a3.

Accepted on this head: the regime mismatch itself is modeled correctly. ServingRegime is present on PrefillObservation and ServingConstraints; prefill_rate_at_floor filters by exact regime and depth; the helper witness has a same-roster Fresh positive control; and the selector propagates a Warm-over-Fresh mismatch to PrefillRateUnmeasuredAtFloor => Unanswerable. That closes the prior cross-regime borrowing defect.

Blocker 3 is WITHDRAWN definitively. I re-ran the repository-wide search: product.fabric has prose saying remaining capacity should be derived, but no executable byte-valued remaining-capacity function/ledger to consume. ExecutionGrant's resource reservations are opaque ReservationRefs. product.node_power_envelope.node_memory_capacity is a nominal DIMM/population sum and may source NodeCapacity.nominal, not kernel_visible. I will not require this PR to consume a nonexistent fabric symbol.

Remaining blockers:

1. REGIME LABEL != EVIDENCE WALL. PrefillObservation remains a freely authorable record { regime, depth, rate }, and ServingRegime exposes WarmContinuation and RestoredSession as ordinary constructors. Therefore a caller can still write PrefillObservation { regime: WarmContinuation, ... } from naked numbers with no cache/session-reuse evidence. The new filter prevents BORROWING a Fresh measurement into Warm, which is good, but it does not make an unsupported Warm claim unwritable. Since the reuse-evidence producer is intentionally deferred, narrow this PR structurally: either make PrefillObservation sealed and expose only a FreshSessionPrefill constructor now, leaving Warm/Restored constructors for the evidence layer; consume an opaque/sealed realization-bound qualification minted upstream; or remove Warm/Restored observation construction until that layer lands. The selector itself does not need to validate reuse.

2. REALIZATION GRAIN IS STILL MISSING. QuantizedCandidate carries release identity + quant label, while semantic_context_verified_to, prefill_observations, and kv_per_token are runtime/config/executor-dependent realization facts. More importantly, model.population says RuntimeCompatibleStage, SingleNodeFeasibleStage, MultiNodeFeasibleStage, ContextQualifiedStage, and CodingQualifiedStage are verdicts about a REALIZATION, but ModelPopulation.members is List and narrow_population admits only ReleaseIdentity. DeepSeek V4 IQ2 vs IQ3 is the concrete falsifier: one realization can fit/qualify while another of the same release does not. A release-only carrier cannot preserve that distinction. Either introduce a RealizationIdentity/RealizationPopulation for those stages, or narrow ModelPopulation to release-grain stages and defer realization stages until the proper carrier exists.

3. STALE DERIVATION CLAIM. choice.dag still states that if every candidate is memory-bound, more nodes help, and describes rejection axes as partitioning into 'buy hardware' remedies. We already withdrew that inference: a memory rejection proves only that more usable memory could remove the rejection; another node helps only if the realization/runtime/topology can use it. Replace that prose with the counterfactual rule (rerun the same selector over current supply vs current+proposed supply) or delete it.

I do NOT require the reuse receipt or concurrency-condition producer itself in this PR if unsupported Warm/Restored claims are structurally unmintable here. Once those three items are repaired, the original blocker set is otherwise closed.

[briansrls]

APPROVE at exact head 14fb18a.

The three remaining blockers from review 5076550603 are closed:

1. Warm/restored provenance: FreshPrefillObservation has no regime field, so unsupported WarmContinuation/RestoredSession observations are not merely filtered out; they are unrepresentable. prefill_rate_at_floor answers those requested regimes with Absent structurally, and the selector propagates that to PrefillRateUnmeasuredAtFloor/Unanswerable. PrefixReuseReceipt is correctly named as the next-rung trigger rather than fabricated in this selector.

2. Population grain: ModelPopulation is now honestly release-grained. PopulationStage contains only OpenWeightStage and LocallyPackagedStage; realization-level runtime/fit/context/coding stages were deleted, with RealizationIdentity/RealizationPopulation named as the carrier required before those verdicts return. The DeepSeek IQ2/IQ3 falsifier is preserved in the rationale.

3. Hardware-help derivation: the stale memory-bound => more nodes help claim is gone. Rejection axes now state which input would have to move, while hardware benefit is explicitly a counterfactual selection over current supply versus current+proposed supply.

Prior blocker 3 concerning a duplicate fabric live-byte remainder remains withdrawn: there is no executable byte-valued fabric remainder authority for this PR to consume.

I do not require the allocatable rename in this PR. That name should move together with the later decision about runtime_overhead/realization authority rather than as an isolated terminology patch.

Exact-head witness CI was still in progress when I submitted this review, so this approval is technical authorization of the tree, not a claim that the required CI has completed. Merge should remain gated on the repository's ordinary exact-head CI/attestation requirements.

[briansrls]

EMERGENCY STOP / REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head 14fb18a. My prior approval on this head is withdrawn and superseded. Do not merge.

The author has produced direct execution evidence that falsifies the fixture's central claimed measurement: kv_per_token = 88,064 bytes is labeled "exact rather than estimated" and drives the showcase 400k-context memory rejection, but real loads on spark-a3ee under Ollama 0.32.9 contradict it. IQ3_S loaded at num_ctx=400,000, reported about 116.97 GB VRAM, and generated a token, so it fits beneath the fixture's 127.66 GB ceiling. IQ2_XXS also loaded at num_ctx=1,048,576 with about 88.9 GB reported; the claimed 88,064 B/token would imply roughly 92.3 GB of KV alone plus 86.7 GB of weights, which is incompatible with that successful load on a 121.69 GiB node.

Therefore the headline witness is currently wrong: at the 400k floor IQ3_S is not memory-rejected by this evidence. Both same-release realizations are admissible, so the established within-release quality ordering should select IQ3_S rather than IQ2_XXS.

This does not reopen the selector-logic repairs already accepted: evaluation order, fail-closed answerability, regime split, release-population grain, and counterfactual hardware rule remain intact. The blocker is the fixture's publication-layer rung error: an architecture-derived declaration was allowed to masquerade as an observed qualification.

Before re-review, kv_per_token must be sourced as an instrument- and realization-bound observation (including the named node/runtime/method), any architecture-derived figure must be removed or made structurally unable to qualify the floor, and the 400k witnesses must be re-derived from the observation rather than re-asserted. No substantive re-review is being attempted in this stop review.

[briansrls]

AMENDMENT TO EMERGENCY STOP / REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head 14fb18a. This supersedes the KV-repair prescription and the claimed final winner in review 5080033756. The stop remains in force: do not merge. This is not a re-review of any repair.

1. THE LINEAR FORM, NOT JUST 88,064, IS FALSIFIED.

Direct Ollama 0.32.9 /api/ps size_vram observations for the exact IQ2_XXS realization on spark-a3ee are:

• 131,072 -> 86,532,465,622 B
• 262,144 -> 87,064,355,798 B
• 400,000 -> 87,692,389,907 B
• 1,048,576 -> 88,865,253,620 B

The successive segment slopes are exactly 4,058 B/token, approximately 4,555.73 B/token, and approximately 1,808.37 B/token. Therefore no corrected kv_per_token scalar can repair weights + kv_per_token * context * hot_sessions; replacing 88,064 with a better-looking constant would preserve the same unsupported extrapolation.

Required shape before re-review:

• Remove kv_per_token, kv_footprint, and the linear resident_footprint calculation from the qualifying fit path.
• Consume an observed resident-footprint fact at or beyond the requested context, bound to the exact realization and the observation conditions: artifact/model identity, runtime release/config, node, instrument/method, and concurrency/session condition.
• A shallower observation, a realization/runtime mismatch, or absent evidence must yield a typed unanswerable result. Do not interpolate or extrapolate between depths.
• Do not recover concurrency by multiplying a one-session reading. A one-session observation cannot answer a hot_sessions > 1 constraint; concurrency must be observed/bound or the question must refuse.
• Return/carry the qualifying observation (including its actual depth), not only a detached byte scalar, so the admission remains auditable.
• Architecture dimensions may remain as a declaration only if there is structurally no path from them to memory qualification.

The exact 400k IQ3_S observation (about 116.97 GB) establishes that its MEMORY axis fits under the fixture's 127,660,151,296-byte ceiling. It invalidates the existing memory rejection and IQ2-by-memory witness.

2. THE MEMORY RESULT REVERSES; THE FINAL SELECTOR ANSWER DOES NOT YET BECOME IQ3_S.

My prior stop review overstated the consequence by saying both realizations were already admissible and IQ3_S should win. On this exact head, build_iq3_s still has semantic_context_verified_to: none and fresh_prefill_observations: []. Loading a runner at num_ctx=400000 and generating one token establishes resident fit; it does not establish semantic retrieval at 400k or fresh-prefill performance at that floor.

After the footprint repair, the honest result over the currently evidenced installed roster is therefore SelectionUnanswerable { UnresolvedCandidateCouldWin }: the higher-quality IQ3_S no longer loses on memory, but remains unqualified on later axes and could win when measured. The real fixture may claim IQ3_S as the selected winner only after those independent receipts exist. A separate declared/synthetic fully qualified same-release pair may continue to witness that the higher ordinal wins when both candidates are admissible.

The previously accepted selector logic remains accepted: unknown is not rejected, no best-effort fallback, fixed evaluation order, exact regime refusal, release-grain population, within-release quality, and counterfactual hardware reasoning.

[briansrls]

HOLD / REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head 8917397. Do not merge. This is an exact-head stop, not a substantive re-review of the footprint repair.

The earlier a70a8ac repair head has been superseded by this head. The author has identified a remaining accounting-domain defect in the current repair: an Ollama /api/ps size_vram observation is named as a generic ResidentFootprint and compared directly with allocatable(capacity), which is derived from /proc/meminfo MemTotal minus declared overhead. Ollama 0.32.9 reports size_vram as runner GPU-buffer usage parsed from llama-server output; that does not, by itself, establish an accounting bridge to OS-visible memory or authorize exact headroom subtraction. The type and field names currently assert that bridge rather than prove it.

Before re-review:

• preserve /api/ps size and size_vram as the exact instrument-reported quantities rather than renaming either to generic resident memory;
• carry successful load/generation as its own positive fit claim;
• retain exact realization, runtime/configuration, node, context depth, and concurrency provenance;
• do not emit exact headroom or compare across the Ollama-buffer and OS-memory domains until an explicit authority establishes that accounting relation for the observed configuration;
• where size == size_vram or full offload matters, carry it as an observation/receipt rather than infer it from the platform.

The prior selector-logic acceptances remain intact, including the corrected real-roster result: after memory fit reverses, IQ3_S is still unqualified on semantic-context and fresh-prefill axes, so the honest answer is SelectionUnanswerable { UnresolvedCandidateCouldWin }, not an IQ3_S winner.

The reported removal of serving_desired.dag and the fleet-global context/concurrency work are outside this stop review and are not being adjudicated here. Re-review remains deferred until the author explicitly requests it.

[briansrls]

REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head c5cb567. This is the requested substantive re-review. Do not merge.

Accepted from the accounting repair:

• kv_per_token, the linear KV/weights product, the OS-memory subtraction, exact headroom, NodeCapacity, allocatable, firmware_carveout, and CapacityMalformed are gone from the selector. I agree with deleting them rather than preserving a decorative carrier in this PR.
• /api/ps size and size_vram are now named as Ollama-reported buffer quantities, not OS resident memory.
• depth, node, and concurrency participate in the current helper; shallower evidence does not answer a deeper floor; no multiplication reconstructs concurrency; the whole selected observation travels in the admissible verdict.
• the real roster no longer claims IQ3_S wins merely because its memory rejection disappeared. Its intended answer remains SelectionUnanswerable { UnresolvedCandidateCouldWin }.
• serving_desired.dag is out of this PR.

The exact head still has the following blockers.

1. CARRIED PROVENANCE IS NOT JOINED PROVENANCE.

runtime_memory_observation_at_floor filters only context depth, concurrent_sessions, and node. It never compares observation.realization, runtime, runtime_config, or instrument against the candidate or against a requested serving realization. QuantizedCandidate itself has only release identity plus a quant label; it has no exact runtime/configuration identity to compare with. Therefore an observation for another artifact, another runtime, another config, or another instrument can be placed in the candidate's list and qualify unchanged.

The real fixture demonstrates the weakness: the IQ2 realization is a mutable ...:latest string, IQ3 is another tag string, runtime is a prose version string, and runtime_config is prose. None is an immutable artifact/runtime/config identity, and none is read by the selector. Changing all four strings—or moving the IQ2 observation into the IQ3 list—leaves the current headline witnesses green.

The comment also says buffer comparisons are between readings from ONE instrument, but the code folds every qualifying observation regardless of instrument/runtime/config and compares their reported_total_buffer values. That same-domain property is asserted only in prose.

The realization-layer trigger has fired for this selector. It need not build the future whole population, but it does need an exact typed serving-realization/configuration key carried by the candidate and every qualifying observation, with equality enforced. The semantic-context and prefill evidence must join that same key as well; otherwise the selector can compose memory fit from runtime A, retrieval from B, and prefill from C and call the nonexistent combination admissible. Add negative controls for wrong artifact/realization, runtime, runtime config, instrument, and node.

2. generation_succeeded: Bool DOES NOT ESTABLISH DoesNotFitMemory.

A missing token can be caused by an invalid request, tokenizer/template failure, unsupported operation, cancellation, timeout, runtime crash, transport failure, or many other causes. The current code maps every false directly to DoesNotFitMemory. That is a diagnosis the observation did not make.

The carrier also requires /api/ps buffer fields. A load that fails before a runner exists may have no /api/ps row from which those fields can be read; requiring byte values forces the failed-load case to fabricate them. Conversely, a runner may load and report buffers successfully, then fail generation for a non-memory reason—in which case its memory fit was not disproved.

Split the outcome structurally. A successful live-runner memory observation may carry /api/ps buffer readings and a positive serve receipt. A failed attempt needs a separate carrier with the exact attempted configuration and a typed observed failure cause. Only an OOM/insufficient-memory-specific observation may become DoesNotFitMemory; other failures need their own axis or an honest unanswerable/refusal. The present fixture_load(..., succeeded: false) is not a valid memory non-fit witness.

3. tighter_bound CAN CHOOSE THE VERDICT BY BYTE MAGNITUDE.

The qualifying list includes both successful and failed observations. The fold chooses the smallest reported_total_buffer before evaluate_candidate inspects the outcome. Thus a smaller failed reading can hide a successful fit and reject the candidate, while a smaller successful reading can hide a failed receipt and admit it. The same problem occurs across different runtime configs and instruments because finding 1 leaves them in one fold.

Once bytes are no longer compared with capacity, "smallest buffer" is not evidence of fit and is not the selector's objective. A failed attempt at a deeper context also does not prove failure at a shallower floor where another configuration succeeded. Match the exact requested realization/configuration first and reconcile typed outcomes explicitly. If multiple incomparable or contradictory receipts remain, refuse or return the conflict; do not let buffer magnitude settle truth. Add both roster-order controls and mixed success/failure controls.

4. THE REAL-ROSTER HEADLINE WITNESS DOES NOT PROVE ITS HEADLINE.

w_the_real_roster_refuses_while_the_higher_rank_is_unresolved accepts any SelectionUnanswerable and checks only that evaluations has length two. It does not require UnresolvedCandidateCouldWin, does not require unresolved_count == 1, and does not establish that IQ2 is fully admissible while IQ3 is specifically semantic-context-unanswerable. A cross-release refusal, tie refusal, or two unresolved candidates would satisfy it.

Pattern-match the exact cause and both evaluations. Likewise, the moved all-rejected witness should inspect two DoesNotFitMemory arms backed by qualifying typed memory-failure receipts rather than only checking list length.

5. THE OLD IQ3_S NON-FIT CLAIM IS STILL PRESENT.

gunbc.model.population still says the repository's concrete realization-grain falsifier is: IQ2_XXS is single-node feasible at 400k while IQ3_S is not. The direct load measurement falsified that sentence. The release-vs-realization grain ruling remains correct, but this example must now say what is actually established—for example, IQ2 is qualified on the modeled axes while IQ3 has observed memory fit and unresolved later axes—or use another real falsifier. A known-false rationale cannot remain because its structural conclusion survived.

6. GLOBAL COMPLETENESS IS ANSWERED FROM ONE PUBLISHER'S CATALOG.

This is a separate exact-head finding from the full re-review. coverage_spans_open_weight_universe returns true for any PublisherReleaseCatalog { publisher: _ }, and open_weight_completeness then answers for the entire population. A population containing DeepSeek and Qwen releases with only a DeepSeek catalog source is therefore declared complete. That is the same wrong-population error this module says it prevents.

Scope the completeness question to one publisher, or require complete source coverage for every publisher in an explicitly declared target universe. Add a mixed-publisher negative control; the current one-publisher positive fixture cannot distinguish the bug.

7. THE POPULATION SUBSET CLAIM IS NOT STRUCTURAL YET.

The module says a narrowed population is not authored, is constructed only from a parent, and retains that parent. But ModelPopulation and PopulationProvenance are ordinary constructible records/variants, so an arbitrary stage/member/provenance combination is writable. NarrowedFrom retains only parent_stage, not the parent population or its member identity, and narrow_population accepts an arbitrary output stage, including backward or same-stage transitions. The tests exercise the helper; they do not make bypassing it impossible.

Either make the accepted population carrier opaque/constructor-bound with fixed legal transitions and a retained parent identity, or state the rung honestly as mechanical prevention and add an enrolled gate over every authored population. The current source cannot support the claimed structural guarantee.

Previously accepted selector properties remain accepted: unknown is not rejected, no best-effort fallback, warm/restored observations remain unwritable, release identity and within-release quality remain scoped, ties refuse, and the buy-nodes inference remains replaced by counterfactual selection. Exact-head CI does not cure the semantic counterexamples above.

[gunbai-bot]

All seven findings of the REQUEST_CHANGES are addressed at eacbb2f7523. Re-review requested in the side chat against that exact head.

(1) The identity join. ServingRealizationIdentity — release × quant_label × artifact_ref × runtime × runtime_config — is carried by the candidate, by every OllamaRunnerMemoryObservation, by every FreshPrefillObservation, and by the new SemanticContextEvidence (retrieval was a bare TokenCount?, a number with no subject). Every helper filters on serving_realization_equal; node matching stays a separate qualification on the memory axis. Negative controls flip each of the five components in turn, plus the node, against the same observation list that positively answers, and require the evidence to stop answering. Receipt transfer is refused on both the retrieval and the prefill axis.

Instrument identity is deliberately not a join component. It names the procedure that produced a reading, not the subject the reading is about — two instruments reading one realization at one configuration should agree, and where they do not, that is finding 3's contradiction, which now refuses without consulting the instrument. Joining it would split one subject into two populations and make the disagreement invisible instead.

(2) An unsuccessful attempt is not a memory verdict. RunnerAttemptOutcome splits served / refused-for-memory / failed-for-other-cause, and the reported buffers live only on the arm where a runner existed to report them — so a pre-runner failure carrying byte figures is unwritable rather than discouraged. The fixture had been inventing them.

(3) Magnitude no longer arbitrates. Qualification is an identity join first; a served and a memory-refused attempt at the same joined configuration refuse rather than being settled by a number. Exercised in both roster orders with a 99 GB success paired against a refusal, and with the same success alone still admitting as its positive control.

(4) The real-roster claim asserts the exact cause (UnresolvedCandidateCouldWin, unresolved_count == 1) and both exact verdict arms.

(5) The IQ3_S non-fit rationale is withdrawn from gunbc.model.population as falsified, and replaced by the split the measurements do establish — cited by naming the witness rather than transcribing verdicts.

(6) Completeness is publisher-scoped. coverage_spans_publisher requires the source's publisher to equal the asked publisher; the universe-wide question has no answerable arm, with the registry-wide enumeration authority named as its trigger.

(7) The subset claim is rung-honest: mechanically preventable, not structurally impossible, with constructor privacy in the substrate as the next-rung trigger. NarrowedFrom retains the parent roster so a hand-built violation is decidable, and narrow_population refuses backward and same-stage transitions.

w_all_serving_choice_claims_hold, w_all_answerability_claims_hold and w_all_population_claims_hold all execute green locally at this head.

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[briansrls]

REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head eacbb2f. This is the requested substantive re-review. Do not merge.

Accepted on this head:

• I agree that instrument must NOT be a component of the serving-subject join. It names how a reading was produced, not what was measured. Joining it would split one subject into instrument-specific populations and hide a same-subject disagreement. Carrying it for audit while reconciling outcomes across instruments is the right direction.
• RunnerAttemptOutcome closes the Bool/counterfeit-buffer defect. Buffer quantities exist only on RunnerServed; only RunnerRefusedForMemory reaches DoesNotFitMemory; a non-memory failure is honestly unanswerable.
• Byte magnitude no longer directly chooses success versus refusal.
• The real-roster witness now fixes the exact top-level cause and count, and its companion claims establish the IQ2/IQ3 arm split.
• The known-false IQ3 memory rationale is withdrawn from population.dag.
• Publisher-scoped completeness and the permanently refusing universe arm close finding 6.
• I do not require a warm/restored reuse receipt in this PR while observations remain structurally fresh-only and non-fresh questions return Absent.

The following blockers remain.

1. THE JOIN IS LIVE, BUT THE SUBJECT IDENTITY IS STILL A MOVING/FREE-TEXT KEY, AND PREFILL IS NOT NODE/CONCURRENCY-BOUND.

ServingRealizationIdentity compares five fields, but artifact_ref, runtime, and runtime_config are all NonEmptyStr. The real IQ2 fixture still identifies the artifact as hf.co/antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf:latest; the runtime is the prose string ollama 0.32.9; the configuration is another prose sentence. The new controls prove that changing those STRINGS breaks the join. They do not prove that one unchanged string still denotes the same bytes/configuration tomorrow. A repointed :latest produces a different model while retaining the exact key, so old memory/retrieval/prefill evidence transfers to new bytes unchanged.

This is not blocked on new substrate. This exact repository already has the stronger authorities: gunbc.model_artifact.ModelArtifact is sole_constructor and content-digest identified specifically because a tag is a moving pointer, and gunbc.spark.serving_release carries a runtime-closure digest and derives a content-addressed serving-release identity. Reuse or factor those authorities, or introduce equivalent content identities at the proper layer. Mutable references and display/version/config prose may remain provenance, but they cannot be the equality authority.

Separately, FreshPrefillObservation carries only realization, depth, and rate. evaluate_candidate selects for a requested node and hot_sessions, but prefill_rate_at_floor receives neither. A prefill rate measured on node A at one concurrent session therefore qualifies node B and a higher-concurrency request whenever the five strings match. Prefill performance is node- and concurrency-causal; carry and match those conditions. This does not change the instrument ruling above: instrument remains audit provenance rather than a subject splitter.

Add controls that reuse the same prefill roster while changing only node and only concurrency, with a positive same-node/same-concurrency arm.

2. MEMORY OUTCOMES FROM DIFFERENT DEPTH/CONCURRENCY POINTS ARE BEING CALLED CONTRADICTORY OR USED AS DOWNWARD REFUSALS.

qualifying_memory_observations admits every observation with context_depth >= floor and concurrent_sessions >= hot_sessions. memory_fit_evidence then partitions that whole threshold-qualified set by outcome. Consequently:

• success at 400,000 tokens / 1 session plus a memory refusal at 1,048,576 / 1 session returns MemoryFitContradicted; those facts are compatible;
• a lone refusal at 1,048,576 / 1 session rejects a 400,000 / 1-session floor; it proves only that the stronger demand failed;
• success at 400,000 / 1 session plus refusal at 400,000 / 4 sessions is called contradictory for a 1-session question; those facts are also compatible.

The code comment and diagnostic say “same joined configuration,” but exact depth and exact concurrency are not part of the reconciliation key. Shallowest selection does not repair that: it is applied after outcomes from different points have already been placed in opposing populations.

Reconcile outcomes first at an exact attempt point: realization x node x context depth x concurrent sessions. Only served/refused disagreement at that exact point is the contradiction this type names. A success at a stronger point may then answer a weaker floor in the admitted monotone direction. A refusal at a stronger point must not reject a weaker floor absent a separate modeled authority licensing that inference.

Add the three controls above. Also repair w_nothing_admissible_refuses_and_reports_every_rejection: it still checks only length == 2, despite the prior bar requiring two inspected DoesNotFitMemory arms, and its current OOM fixtures are at 1,048,576 while the question is 400,000—so the witness itself relies on the invalid downward-refusal inference.

3. THE POPULATION NEXT-RUNG TRIGGER HAS ALREADY FIRED; THE MECHANICAL FALLBACK IS ALSO UNENROLLED.

population.dag now says constructor privacy is unavailable and names it as the next-rung trigger. That premise is false on this exact tree. sole_constructor is already used throughout the repository, including by the directly relevant ModelArtifact record, with admitted smart constructors. ModelPopulation is a record and can be sealed now so only open_weight_population and successful narrow_population production can mint it. The prior review explicitly offered that as the structural repair.

If there is a concrete compiler limitation that prevents ModelPopulation sole_constructor, it must be demonstrated rather than assumed. The alternative previously admitted was honest mechanical prevention PLUS an enrolled gate over every authored population. This head has no such gate. w_narrowing_cannot_introduce_a_member_the_parent_lacked feeds population_members_are_subset_of_parent only a value produced by narrow_population; it never constructs the acknowledged bypass and never requires the checker to return false. Replacing that checker with constant true leaves the aggregate green.

Use the already-available construction wall, or supply the previously required authored-population enrollment and a hand-built outsider negative control. The present state is neither structural prevention nor enrolled mechanical prevention.

4. REMOVE THE STALE ACCOUNTING-DOMAIN RATIONALE.

serving_choice_witness_test.dag still says IQ3_S is 116,970,000,000 B “against 127,660,151,296 B allocatable. IT FITS.” That is the exact runner-buffer-versus-OS-capacity comparison this PR correctly removed as unsupported. The fit is established by the typed successful load/generation outcome, not by subtracting or comparing those numbers. Preserve the true conclusion and delete the false rationale.

Exact-head Actions run 33561378785 is still in progress (build, floor, Rust tests, and fabric evidence), so there is also no completed exact-head CI authorization yet. Green local aggregates cannot close the semantic counterexamples above.

[briansrls]

REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head b0ca779. Do not merge.

I treated this as the outstanding substantive re-review of the eacbb2f semantics plus the merge from current main. Merge hygiene is accepted: the three model-authority blobs are byte-identical between eacbb2f and b0ca779, and the merge's only changed PR-owned path is the regenerated src/v1/stage0/src/std_measure.rs mirror. No model .dag semantic finding below was introduced by the merge.

CLOSED from review 5081908489:

• the naked generation_succeeded: Bool is gone; served, typed memory refusal, and other failure are structurally separate, and failed pre-runner attempts cannot carry invented /api/ps buffer fields;
• buffer magnitude no longer chooses success versus refusal;
• realization equality is actually consulted by memory, semantic-context, and prefill qualification;
• the real-roster answer is corrected to SelectionUnanswerable { UnresolvedCandidateCouldWin } rather than IQ3_S winning;
• the falsified IQ3_S non-fit sentence is withdrawn;
• publisher-scoped completeness and universe-wide refusal repair the one-publisher/global-completeness bug;
• same-stage and backward population transitions now refuse and parent membership is retained.

Three blockers remain.

1. THE JOIN KEY COMPARES STRINGS, BUT IT STILL DOES NOT IDENTIFY THE EXACT ARTIFACT/RUNTIME/CONFIGURATION IT CLAIMS TO IDENTIFY.

ServingRealizationIdentity is an outer record, but artifact_ref, runtime, and runtime_config are freely authored NonEmptyStrs. The real IQ2 fixture puts hf.co/antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf:latest in artifact_ref. That is a mutable reference, not an artifact identity: the same string can resolve to different bytes tomorrow and every old observation will still compare equal. The repository already has the opposite authority in gunbc.model_artifact: ModelArtifact.identity is content-addressed and the reference is explicitly demoted to provenance/label because tags move. Likewise, a prose runtime version and prose configuration sentence do not structurally cover the runtime closure or every configuration axis on which the evidence depends.

The new negative controls prove that changing one STRING makes equality false. They do not prove that equal strings denote the same artifact, runtime closure, or complete configuration. This is the remaining exactness half of finding 1.

Use the existing content-addressed model-artifact identity (or its exact digest), an exact runtime-closure identity, and a canonical/sealed runtime-configuration identity. Use the existing branded HostIdentity rather than another host-shaped NonEmptyStr.

There is also one current single-host provenance gap that P0 must not be asked to hide: FreshPrefillObservation carries no host and no observed concurrency condition, while choose_serving_candidate takes a host and a concurrency demand. Memory can therefore qualify on host B while prefill measured on host A is borrowed into the same verdict; a one-request rate can also answer a more-contended serving condition. Bind host and the relevant concurrency condition on every host-sensitive latency receipt now. P0 may later replace that HostIdentity with ExecutionAssemblyIdentity; no chained-topology work is required in this PR.

2. POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE FIT EVIDENCE HAVE OPPOSITE DIRECTIONAL LAWS, BUT THE HELPER APPLIES THE POSITIVE LAW TO BOTH.

qualifying_memory_observations includes every outcome with:

observation.context_depth >= requested_floor
&& observation.concurrent_sessions >= requested_sessions

That direction can conservatively qualify a SUCCESS at a harder point for an easier demand, subject to the declared fixed regime. It cannot qualify a REFUSAL in the same direction.

Concrete counterexamples on this exact code:

• an OOM at 1,048,576 tokens, with no 400k attempt, rejects a 400k request;
• a successful 400k attempt plus an OOM at 1,048,576 becomes MemoryFitContradicted at 400k, even though those observations concern different configurations and agree that 400k can serve;
• an OOM at four concurrent sessions rejects or contradicts a one-session request.

A harder configuration failing does not prove an easier configuration fails. This was part of finding 3 in review 5081908489 and remains open despite removal of the byte-magnitude tie-break.

Partition qualification by outcome. A served observation may cover a weaker demand only under the admitted monotonic regime. A memory refusal must match the exact attempted configuration, or participate only through a separately modeled and correctly directed refusal relation. Contradiction requires genuinely overlapping claims about the same configuration point; it is not any success somewhere in the upper orthant plus any refusal somewhere in the upper orthant.

Add controls requiring:

• 400k success + 1M OOM => 400k fit established, not contradiction;
• 1M OOM alone => 400k unanswerable, not rejected;
• one-session success + four-session OOM => one-session fit established;
• the same exact configuration served and memory-refused => contradiction in both roster orders.

The all-rejected witness should then inspect both exact DoesNotFitMemory verdicts and their exact matching typed refusal receipts; it still checks only that NoCandidateAdmissible.rejections has length two.

3. THE POPULATION RUNG IS STILL OVERSTATED, AND THE CLAIMED MISSING SUBSTRATE CAPABILITY ALREADY EXISTS.

The rewritten comment correctly concedes that ModelPopulation is freely constructible and that narrow_population alone cannot make the subset invariant structural. But it then calls the class MECHANICALLY PREVENTABLE merely because a sanctioned constructor behaves and population_members_are_subset_of_parent can detect a hand-built violation.

Nothing enrolls that predicate over every authored population, no accepted/validated wrapper is required by consumers, and the predicate's only current consumer is the witness that exercises the good constructor. A decidable bad state is not mechanically prevented until a mechanism reliably blocks it.

More importantly, the stated next-rung trigger—constructor privacy in the substrate—has already fired. This exact repository uses type ModelArtifact sole_constructor plus an admitted sealing function in gunbc.model_artifact. Use the available sole-constructor mechanism for ModelPopulation and admit only the root/narrowing producers, or introduce a sealed accepted-population wrapper whose constructor runs the retained-parent check and make consumers take only that wrapper. Alternatively, add a real enrolled corpus gate and state the lower rung honestly. The current prose says the substrate cannot do something it demonstrably does elsewhere on this tree.

ORIGINAL FABRIC BLOCKER 3 — EXPLICIT FINAL DISPOSITION:

WITHDRAWN, completely and independently of the later P0 ruling. product.fabric.supply contains prose saying remaining capacity is derived from allocatable supply minus active claims, but there is no executable byte-valued remainder function or reservation ledger for this selector to consume; grant reservations are opaque references. #9897 is not required to consume or wait for a nonexistent fabric remainder authority. The future composite-assembly/grant work is a separate capability and does not revive this blocker.

P0 remains a successor. Do not add ExecutionAssembly, chained topology, the P2 feasibility probe, or configuration-frontier solving to #9897 to repair the three findings above. This PR can close as an honest single-host selector once its current identities/evidence are exact, negative fit evidence has the correct direction, and the population guarantee is actually enforced.

P3 record correction accepted: the reported three-percent delta was not a residual from a fitted concurrency model. It was a four-session observation compared with an extrapolation from one-session context observations. The concurrency response has only one observed point and is unidentified; there is no fitted concurrency curve yet to call inaccurate.

Exact-head CI was still in progress during this review. Green CI would not discharge the semantic counterexamples above.

[gunbai-bot]

Both findings from review 58328 are fixed in eebd4f08a2d.

Finding 1 — the cross-family collapse. Confirmed, and it's the sharpest kind of defect: the comment directly above digest_equal said a cross-family pair "is not equal and not unequal" and warned that collapsing it would make two readings of the same artifact look like different artifacts — and the next line collapsed it to false. The consequence was worse than a lost comparison, exactly as the review says: the observation dropped out of the qualifying population and the candidate returned MemoryFitUnobservedAtConfiguration, so "we hold a measurement we cannot line up" was reported as "nobody measured this."

Identity comparison is now three-state. compare_serving_realization returns RealizationSame / RealizationDifferent / RealizationIncomparable { axis }, and the selector refuses with a new EvidenceIdentityIncomparable that names the axis.

One design decision worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred: Different beats Incomparable when both appear. A definite mismatch on any axis settles the question — these are not the same realization whatever a second axis could not decide — so an incomparable axis blocks only when every other axis matched, which is the one case where it is load-bearing. Ordering it the other way would refuse plainly distinct pairs and turn a single stale-family digest into a global stall.

Discriminating REDs: w_a_cross_family_digest_refuses_rather_than_reading_as_unobserved builds a fixture identical on every axis except the artifact digest's hash family and requires EvidenceIdentityIncomparable, which the previous code could only answer as unobserved; w_realization_comparison_reaches_all_three_states_and_different_wins reaches all three states and exercises the ordering rule.

Finding 2 — hand-rolled coproduct predicates. Also right. Three sibling predicates each re-matched all three arms of RunnerAttemptOutcome: three representations of one classification, where a fourth outcome would have to be remembered in three places and any predicate that forgot it would silently answer false.

Each coproduct now has one eliminator and every predicate is a projection through it — runner_attempt_fold, candidate_verdict_fold, model_release_fold, realization_comparison_fold. Deliberately a catamorphism rather than a parallel Kind enum: minting AttemptServed beside the constructor would be a second name for one variant set, which is the nicknaming §3 forbids, while a fold introduces no vocabulary at all. release_identity stays a match because it projects a per-arm field rather than classifying.

All three witness aggregates execute green at this head.

— sent from eager-pike-541

[briansrls]

REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head eebd4f0. Do not merge.

This supersedes stale-head review 5083909120 on a239fe3. The messages crossed; I have retargeted the operative verdict to the current head.

ACCEPTED ON THIS HEAD:

• The pairwise ordering is correct: RealizationDifferent beats RealizationIncomparable. A definite mismatch on any identity axis establishes that the two realizations differ; incomparability is load-bearing only when every decidable axis matches. Keep that direction.
• The memory path no longer turns a cross-family identity comparison into MemoryFitUnobservedAtConfiguration; it has a typed MemoryFitIdentityIncomparable -> EvidenceIdentityIncomparable path.
• The new comparison-state controls reach Same/Different/Incomparable and exercise the ordering rule.
• I have no objection to consolidating classification predicates through one fold per coproduct. That refactor does not alter the remaining review bar.
• Population sealing and the basic positive/negative fit-direction repair remain accepted.

THREE BLOCKER GROUPS REMAIN.

1. IDENTITY INCOMPARABILITY IS ONLY PROPAGATED THROUGH THE MEMORY ARM, AND THE MEMORY PRE-SCAN IS TOO BROAD.

serving_realization_equal still folds RealizationIncomparable to false. Both semantic_context_verified_to and slowest_fresh_rate_at_floor consume that Bool. Therefore:

• cross-family semantic-context evidence becomes SemanticContextUnverifiedAtFloor;
• cross-family prefill evidence becomes PrefillRateUnmeasuredAtFloor.

Those are the same collapse the new memory repair correctly removed: “we hold evidence whose subject cannot be lined up” is reported as “that evidence was never obtained.” Every realization-bound evidence axis must consume the typed comparison, not the Bool projection, whenever incomparability changes the diagnosis. Add semantic-context and prefill controls for this exact case.

Conversely, first_incomparable_axis scans every memory observation on the requested node before depth, concurrency, and outcome relevance are considered. An irrelevant incomparable row can now stall an otherwise answered request. For example, a comparable 400k success plus a cross-family observation that is only 8k-deep returns EvidenceIdentityIncomparable, although the 8k row could not answer the 400k question even if its identity were comparable. A second incomparable success that merely supports an already-established fit also need not overturn it.

Apply the typed comparison to observations that could materially participate in the requested verdict, then reconcile by outcome. A simpler family-specific identity carrier is also acceptable. Pairwise Different > Incomparable remains the correct ordering; this finding is about evidence-population relevance, not that ordering.

2. THE REST OF THE EXACT-IDENTITY/CONFIGURATION BLOCKER FROM 5083909120 IS UNCHANGED.

ServingRuntimeIdentity remains an unrestricted public mint over {name, version}. Ollama 0.32.9 is known in this repository to be ambiguous across asset variants; sealing two authored strings does not identify the runtime build. Consume the existing observed runtime materialization/closure authority, or mint only from a receipt that grounds the build. Historical rows lacking it must remain unanswerable.

ResolvedRuntimeConfiguration still accepts an arbitrary ContentHash, and the fixture still supplies a bare digest. It does not derive an identity from an observed argv receipt. More importantly, one serial_config is still attached to observations at 131072, 262144, 400000, and 1048576 even though the claimed exact resolved argv contains the context/parallel values (-c, -np). One exact full-argv identity cannot name all four points.

Split fixed runtime mode from the exact measured configuration point, with a typed relation for any downward success implication, or match exact points only. Do not call one shared digest “the exact resolved argv” while varying values that occur in that argv.

The host surface is still NonEmptyStr in the selector and observations. Use product.placement_supply.HostIdentity as previously required.

The malformed-digest fallback remains: fixture helpers convert invalid digest text into a structural hash instead of refusing. Remove the best-effort arm.

Prefill still assumes observed_concurrency >= demanded_concurrency conservatively bounds TokensPerSecond, but the metric is not typed as per-request versus aggregate and batching can make that relation non-monotone. Use exact concurrency for this PR or require a typed metric-semantics/monotonicity receipt.

shallowest_of still orders successful observations only by context depth. Equal-depth observations at different concurrency can change the fit receipt carried by ServingCandidateAdmissible under list reordering. Return the relevant evidence set or define a complete deterministic order and witness permutation invariance.

3. THE COMBINED DIRECTIONAL CONTROLS AND EXACT REJECTION ASSERTION ARE STILL MISSING.

The required regression populations are coexistence cases. Separate one-receipt tests do not exercise the old contradiction path. Add:

• 400k success + 1M OOM in one observation list => 400k fit established;
• 1-session success + 4-session OOM in one list => 1-session fit established;
• exact 400k/1-session success + exact 400k/1-session OOM => contradiction in both list orders.

The current contradiction fixture still pairs fixture_footprint at 1048576 with a refusal at 400000, so it is not an exact-point contradiction.

w_nothing_admissible_refuses_and_reports_every_rejection still accepts only length(rejections) == 2. It must inspect both exact DoesNotFitMemory verdicts, the intended realization identities, and their exact-point RunnerRefusedForMemory receipts.

Add controls that cross-family semantic/prefill evidence returns EvidenceIdentityIncomparable, and that a non-material incomparable memory row does not stall a request already answered by comparable relevant evidence.

STANDING ACCEPTANCES remain unchanged: the real roster is SelectionUnanswerable { UnresolvedCandidateCouldWin }; warm/restored observations remain unwritable; population is release-grained; no best-effort or cross-release ordering is introduced; the fabric live-byte-remainder blocker remains withdrawn; and P0a/P0b/P2/P1/P3 remain successors.

At review time, exact-head Rust and build checks were green while floor and fabric evidence were still running. CI cannot discharge the semantic counterexamples above.

[briansrls]

REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head 022c34ab328b7cd4405a43e55b298d335790fcb2. Do not merge.

I re-reviewed the one-commit delta from eebd4f08a2d against the remaining bar. Most of (c) through (g) is closed, and the point-relevance change fixes a live defect rather than merely hardening the code.

CLOSED ON THIS HEAD:

• (c) The selector API, fresh-prefill observations, and runner-memory observations now use product.placement_supply.HostIdentity.
• Runtime identity no longer mints {name, version}. The cited-release path and the observation path converge through gunbc.ollama_runtime_bundle, and the observation path requires version plus observed asset digest agreement.
• (d) The malformed-digest fallback is gone. The fixture helper accepts Sha256DigestHex, so an invalid literal is rejected by the refinement rather than mapped to a shared structural identity.
• (e) Fresh-prefill concurrency now binds exactly. The new busier-reading/quiet-demand control discriminates against the old >= rule.
• (g) The three coexistence controls are present, and the all-rejected witness now joins each intended quantization label to an exact memory-rejection arm and exact-point typed refusal; the length check remains only as closure.
• The node-only incomparability scan is repaired. participates_at_point applies the outcome-specific point law before identity comparison, and w_an_irrelevant_cross_family_reading_does_not_stall_the_candidate catches the former 8k-reading/400k-demand failure.

ORIGINAL FABRIC BLOCKER — FINAL DISPOSITION:

WITHDRAWN completely. It is not an open item on this head. product.fabric.supply.unmet_memory_axis compares a requested Shape with a static offered Shape; it is not an admitted-supply-minus-active-claims byte remainder. The file says in prose that remaining capacity is derived from active grants, but supplies no executable byte-valued derivation or claim ledger for this selector to consume. There is therefore no symbol for you to name or consume, and future assembly/grant work does not revive this requirement against #9897.

THREE BOUNDED BLOCKERS REMAIN:

1. Identity incomparability is still collapsed on semantic-context and prefill evidence, and the memory materiality repair stops at point relevance.

serving_realization_equal projects RealizationIncomparable to false. semantic_context_verified_to and slowest_fresh_rate_at_floor still consume that Boolean, so a held cross-family retrieval receipt becomes SemanticContextUnverifiedAtFloor, and a held cross-family prefill receipt becomes PrefillRateUnmeasuredAtFloor. Those are evidence-absence diagnoses, not identity-incomparability diagnoses. Add exact cross-family controls for both axes and propagate EvidenceIdentityIncomparable rather than deleting the evidence from the qualifying population.

The memory fix correctly removes observations that fail the point conditions, but first_incomparable_axis still stalls on every point-relevant incomparable row before reconciling whether it can alter the result. Concrete counterexample: a comparable 400k/1-session success plus an incomparable 1M/1-session success still returns MemoryFitIdentityIncomparable. That second row is not load-bearing: if it is the same realization, it is another success; if it is different, it is irrelevant. In both cases the comparable 400k success establishes fit. Add this coexistence control and make incomparability block only where resolving it could change the verdict, not merely where its point could participate.

2. The promised exact runtime-configuration grain is absent from the implementation.

The source comment says there are two grains and that the exact full argv identity of one measured point lives on the observation. The code defines only FixedRuntimeModeIdentity. There is no ExactRuntimeConfigurationIdentity, and neither OllamaRunnerMemoryObservation, FreshPrefillObservation, nor SemanticContextEvidence carries the full observed-argv identity.

Consequently, context_depth and concurrent_sessions can be authored beside a fixed-mode digest derived from a different argv. The tuple {fixed_mode, depth, sessions} is not evidence that those point values came from the same resolved argv, and it omits any other point-specific resolved flag. Add an exact identity derived from the full observed argv to the relevant observations, with the point values derived from or checked against that same observation. Downward success transport may then require equal fixed mode plus the typed ordering of the varied axes; exact-point-only matching remains an acceptable narrower repair.

3. observation_order_key_before is not yet a total deterministic order over the observation it returns.

The key ends at depth, sessions, reported-total bytes, and instrument. Two records can tie on all four while differing in data that is carried out: reported_gpu_buffer, RunnerRefusedForMemory.detail, or RunnerFailedForOtherCause.cause. shallowest_of then keeps the earlier roster member.

The decisive counterexample is two exact-point RunnerFailedForOtherCause observations with the same realization, node, depth, sessions, and instrument but different causes. Reversing the input reverses the MemoryAttemptFailedForNonMemoryCause diagnosis. Include all verdict-visible payload in a canonical order, return the complete evidence set, or refuse on an explicit ambiguity/conflict. Add a reversed-roster control at this exact tie.

The slot-allocation correction does not create another #9897 blocker. This tree does not divide num_ctx by OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL or compute memory from that account; it consumes typed served/refused observations at explicit depth and concurrency points. Keep the new instrument's conclusion separate until it distinguishes declared window, configured slots, and actually usable per-request context.

Exact-head Actions run 33580087502 was still in progress at review time. Terminal green CI would not discharge the semantic counterexamples above.

[briansrls]

REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head 931cd4c94167a4215fcc08b7279f044ef4f04695. Do not merge.

I re-reviewed the delta from 022c34ab328 against review 5084787534 and the new fleet facts.

CLOSED ON THIS HEAD:

• Semantic-context and prefill qualification now preserve RealizationIncomparable and propagate EvidenceIdentityIncomparable instead of reporting the held evidence as absent.
• The exact previous memory counterexample is closed: a comparable 400k success is not overturned by a redundant incomparable 1M success, while an incomparable exact refusal beside a success remains load-bearing.
• The observation order now includes both byte payloads and the arm-tagged detail/cause, closing the exact reversed-cause falsifier from the prior review.
• The five new witnesses are enrolled in the aggregate.

The original fabric live-remainder blocker remains withdrawn completely. Nothing below revives it.

TWO BLOCKER GROUPS REMAIN.

1. ExactRuntimeConfigurationIdentity IS STILL CARRIED PROVENANCE, NOT AN EXACT EFFECTIVE-CONFIGURATION AUTHORITY.

The new field is written into fresh-prefill and memory observations, but no qualification, reconciliation, or ordering function reads it. exact_runtime_configuration_equal has no consumer. A different exact-configuration digest therefore changes no verdict and no aggregate; the field is the same carried-not-joined shape this PR originally removed.

The constructor also still accepts context_depth / concurrent_sessions independently of the argv. Naming that gap honestly is good, but it leaves the exact prior counterexample constructible: an argv/configuration for one point can be minted beside authored point values for another, and the selector qualifies on those authored values. This remains blocking. A generic std string-to-integer parser is not specifically required: a typed point can render its canonical flag/environment assignment and require exact equality with the observed wire, or an extdeps-owned parser can produce the typed point. What is required is that no successful observation constructor accepts an unverified {effective configuration, depth, sessions} tuple.

There are two further exactness holes in the same surface:

• varied_flags is caller-supplied. A caller can classify a causal mode flag as varied, strip it from FixedRuntimeModeIdentity, and transport evidence across it. Which axes are orderable versus fixed is a runtime-authority decision, not an observation caller's list.
• SemanticContextEvidence remains the third realization-bound observation but carries neither the exact configuration nor a typed invariance relation proving its result independent of the omitted point-specific axes.

The newly measured deployment fact makes this blocker concrete rather than prospective. The live systemd unit launches bare ollama serve; OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH and OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL are Environment assignments. The fixture instead invents ollama serve --num-ctx ... --parallel ... as serving_argv. Two live units with different causal environment values therefore mint the same current fixed-mode and exact-configuration identities. Current main already models both environment variables and renders both into the unit; consume that authority after composing main rather than adding another spelling in gunbc.model.choice.

RULING ON ENVIRONMENT GRAIN: do not hash the whole ambient environment, and do not use argv alone. An Ollama-owned closed projection must identify every resolved input whose variation can change the claim being transported. OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH and OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL are in that projection for these observations. OLLAMA_HOST belongs deployment identity; OLLAMA_MODELS is artifact-resolution provenance once the loaded artifact digest is joined. Any further performance/fit-affecting Ollama axes belong to fixed mode as they are grounded. Unknown potentially causal axes must make transport unanswerable, not be silently dropped. Because context defaults can be overridden by model/request options, the point receipt must bind the effective resolved value—such as the observed child-runner/readback value—not merely the unit default.

This is not the generic successor ServingConfigurationIdentity or P0 assembly work. It is the bounded Ollama-specific exact-key repair already required by #9897.

Required discriminators include:

• same ExecStart argv, different observed context/parallel environment => different effective configuration;
• an observation cannot claim point values inconsistent with its observed effective configuration;
• an arbitrary caller cannot erase a fixed causal axis by adding it to varied_flags;
• changing only the exact-configuration identity cannot leave the evidence join semantically unchanged unless a typed transport relation proves the change is confined to the admitted varied axes.

2. INCOMPARABILITY MATERIALITY IS IMPLEMENTED AT THE ARM LEVEL, BUT PREFILL VALUES AND RETURNED RECEIPTS ARE PART OF THE VERDICT.

The new memory witness proves one genuinely redundant case: comparable 400k success plus incomparable 1M success. But the production rule suppresses all incomparable successes once any comparable success exists, all incomparable refusals once any comparable refusal exists, and all incomparable failures once a comparable failure exists. That is broader than “resolving it cannot change the result.”

Prefill gives the decisive top-level counterexample. Put these two point-relevant readings in one candidate:

• comparable rate 135 tok/s;
• cross-family incomparable rate 50 tok/s;
• prefill floor 100 tok/s.

Current fresh_prefill_qualification finds the comparable 135 first and never consults the incomparable 50, so it admits. If the incomparable receipt is the same realization, the conservative rate is 50 and the candidate rejects; if it is a different realization, 135 stands and the candidate admits. Identity resolution changes the verdict, so the only honest current result is EvidenceIdentityIncomparable. “A comparable rate exists” is not a sufficient materiality test for a numeric fold.

The same issue survives in memory's verdict-visible payload. A comparable exact non-memory failure with cause z beside an incomparable exact failure with cause a currently reports z, because the comparable failure suppresses the incomparable one. If the second receipt is the same realization, the newly established canonical order would select a; if different, it reports z. The identity question therefore changes MemoryAttemptFailedForNonMemoryCause, even though the coproduct arm stays the same. Equivalent cases exist for the carried fit/refusal receipt.

Repair materiality against the actual output, not merely presence of an arm. A safe broad rule is that every point-relevant incomparable prefill row stalls; a sharper rule may ignore one only when inclusion cannot alter the conservative rate. For memory, an incomparable same-arm row is ignorable only when it cannot introduce a missing higher-priority arm and cannot outrank/change the receipt the verdict carries.

Add at least:

• comparable 135 + incomparable 50 at the same prefill point, floor 100 => EvidenceIdentityIncomparable;
• comparable failure cause z + incomparable failure cause a at the same exact point => EvidenceIdentityIncomparable.

The slot experiment settles the narrow external question: the num_ctx / N partition hypothesis is falsified. A 308,005-token prompt succeeded under configured num_ctx=1,048,576, N=4, exceeding 262,144. That does not add a #9897 blocker and does not establish four simultaneous 1,048,576-token requests; it establishes that one request's usable window is not statically divided by the slot count.

Exact-head Actions run 33582998198 was still in progress at review time: required-witnesses-build was green; Rust, floor, and fabric-evidence were running. The branch is also still composed on old base 373b8d11, while current main already contains the relevant Ollama environment authority. Final authorization requires the repaired tree composed with current main and terminal exact-head CI.

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Pushed 2f346a532a9. Three things landed, all executed.

review 58429 (codex, REQUEST_CHANGES) — fixed. Correct finding: is_same, is_different and is_incomparable in test.claim.model.serving_choice_witness_test each hand-matched RealizationComparison, which already has an eliminator — realization_comparison_fold in gunbc.model.choice, used by serving_realization_equal. So the witness was carrying a second classification of a coproduct that has one. All three now route through the fold. The consequence is the one that matters: a fourth arm on RealizationComparison used to leave these silently answering false; it now fails to compile.

An earlier finding I owe a correction on rather than a fix: the report that src/v1/stage0/src/std_measure.rs is hand-written seed Rust is factually wrong. Line 1 of that file is // Generated by v1 compiler -- do not edit. — it is a generated mirror, and the TokensPerSecond row in it is the projection of the std.measure declaration, not an authored duplicate. No change made.

The side chat's remaining blocker — closed, and it was real. OllamaEffectiveConfiguration overstated what two environment assignments prove. OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH is the server's default context, not a ceiling (a model option or a request num_ctx may replace it), and OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL is the configured slot count, not the number of requests in flight while somebody measured. The bound check depth <= configured default && sessions <= slots therefore established only that a point was permitted, never that it was exercised — so under the fleet's real 1M/4-slot unit an authored (1,000,000, 4) point was admissible for a measurement that was a short prompt on one request, and that one-request success then generalized downward through the memory rule as a four-session success.

The fix deletes the authored point as an input rather than checking it:

• ObservedOllamaLaunchConfiguration (renamed; field server_default_context, not context_ceiling) — what the launch wires actually establish.
• ExecutedRequestReceipt — the runtime's own prompt_eval_count, the concurrency a named instrument established, and a RequestContextOverrideEvidence arm.
• exercised_attempt_point — the only way to get a point, bounded by the effective context, which RequestContextOverrideObserved may raise past the server default.

observed_memory_attempt and observed_fresh_prefill no longer accept context_depth / concurrent_sessions at all. A point the attempt did not exercise has no constructor, which is a rung-4 statement rather than a checked one.

Executed evidence. All three aggregates green on this head: w_all_serving_choice_claims_hold, w_all_answerability_claims_hold, w_all_population_claims_hold. New enrolled probes:

• w_a_point_its_configuration_could_not_have_produced_has_no_observation — 400k/1 admits; 2M/1, 400k/5 and 400k/0 do not.
• w_an_observed_request_override_moves_the_bound_the_server_default_set — the same 2M receipt admits under an observed override to 2M and is refused under an override to 500k. This is the RED that makes the rename non-cosmetic: a bound genuinely named "ceiling" has no arm that could admit it.
• w_a_slower_incomparable_prefill_beside_a_passing_one_stalls_at_the_rate_floor and w_an_incomparable_exact_failure_beside_a_comparable_one_stalls_in_both_orders — the side chat's two named falsifiers, each with a positive control that makes the unalignable row comparable and shows the pair then answers, so the refusal is the unresolved identity and not the presence of a second row.

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[briansrls]

REQUEST_CHANGES at exact head 2f346a532a98272f94c9cb47c67968a0e50c8fe9. Do not merge.

I reviewed the current-main composition and the two repaired semantic groups. The materiality work is accepted: relevant incomparable prefill evidence now stalls the conservative minimum, and memory incomparability accounts for both arm introduction and canonical-receipt replacement. The two named falsifiers and their positive controls are the right discriminators. The fold consolidation is also accepted.

The effective-configuration repair is not closed yet. Three tightly related blockers remain.

1. THE “OBSERVED” CONFIGURATION AND “EXECUTED” RECEIPT ARE STILL FREELY AUTHORED CLAIMS.

ObservedOllamaLaunchConfiguration is sole_constructor, but its public mint accepts naked typed {server_default_context, serving_slots}. observed_configuration_matches is only a Boolean checker, has no consumer on this head, and is not the mint: a caller can ignore it and construct the “observed” value anyway.

ExecutedRequestReceipt has the same shape. Its public mint accepts naked {prompt_eval_count, concurrent_requests, instrument, context_override}. NoModelOrRequestContextOverride and RequestContextOverrideObserved { effective_context } are also directly authorable. Therefore a caller still states the point—one layer earlier and under a receipt-shaped name. sole_constructor changes the syntax of the claim; it does not establish that a request executed or that an override was observed.

The new 400k/2M/5/0 witnesses exercise the bound function. They do not discriminate this provenance bypass, because they construct every “receipt” through that unrestricted mint.

Bounded repair: separate the value from its epistemic wrapper. A plain OllamaLaunchConfiguration may be authored as a desired value; an ObservedOllamaLaunchConfiguration must be minted only from a typed unit-readback/assignment receipt whose exact rendered lines match. Likewise, the selector may accept an opaque executed-attempt receipt from an observation authority, but the production mint cannot accept naked counts and an evidence-labelled variant. This PR need not build P2 or network actuation; fixture-only constructors can test the selector, but the real fleet roster must remain unanswerable unless its inputs actually come from the observed receipt boundary.

2. MEMORY CONFIGURATION DEPTH AND PREFILL PROMPT DEPTH HAVE BEEN COLLAPSED INTO prompt_eval_count, FALSIFYING THE CURRENT MEMORY FIXTURE AND MAKING THE REFUSAL ARM CLAIM-SHAPED.

The real memory instrument is still named /api/ps size and size_vram after load at explicit num_ctx. The four IQ2 readings are indexed by those explicit num_ctx values. But fixture_receipt now writes each such value into ExecutedRequestReceipt.prompt_eval_count with NoModelOrRequestContextOverride.

Those are different facts:

• /api/ps.context_length or an exact attempted num_ctx describes the runner's effective allocated/configured window—the axis the observed buffer curve was swept over;
• /api/generate.prompt_eval_count describes how many prompt tokens one successful request actually evaluated—the depth relevant to the prefill-rate observation.

The /api/ps instrument does not report prompt_eval_count, and the historical 131072/262144/400000/1048576 buffer readings were taken at explicit num_ctx; this head re-labels them as equally long executed prompts. The headline real-roster evidence is therefore no longer the measurement its annotation names.

The same single receipt is required for RunnerRefusedForMemory. A load/OOM refusal may have no successful /api/generate response and hence no runtime-reported prompt_eval_count; the fixture manufactures one anyway and passes it beside the refusal outcome. Point and outcome must be produced together at the grain that can actually exist.

Split the two observations:

• memory fit binds the exact effective/attempted context window and actual active-session condition, with /api/ps.context_length on a served runner or the exact rendered attempted configuration on a pre-runner OOM;
• fresh-prefill binds runtime-reported prompt_eval_count and the exact concurrency condition for that rate.

Do not make the old /api/ps sweep prove full-length prompt execution. Either keep it as an effective-context/load sweep or obtain new long-prompt receipts.

There is a second conflation on concurrency. concurrent_requests is described as requests “in flight,” but exercised_attempt_point refuses when it exceeds configured slots. Four slots can receive five outstanding requests with one queued; the configuration can produce that state. If the field means concurrently executing/slot-occupying requests, name it that way and require the instrument to prove active occupancy. Outstanding requests, active slots, and SLO-qualified concurrent sessions are not one count.

3. YES, RETAIN THE EXECUTION RECEIPT (OR AN EXACT SEALED SOURCE REF) ON THE OBSERVATION. IT HAS LOAD-BEARING CONSUMERS.

The current derivation copies depth and concurrency into the observation, then discards receipt.instrument and receipt.context_override. ExercisedAttemptPoint.instrument is never read. observed_memory_attempt also accepts a separate instrument argument, so the memory-buffer instrument can disagree with the instrument that allegedly established prompt depth and concurrency; the prefill observation loses that provenance entirely.

The override is also part of the effective attempt configuration. Two attempts under the same launch defaults, one with a 500k override and one with a 2M override, currently share the same launch-configuration identity once the receipt is discarded. At the same prompt count they become indistinguishable even though the runtime allocation/configuration they exercised can differ.

Carry the full admitted receipt, or carry an ExercisedAttemptPoint that structurally owns an immutable receipt/ref and retains the effective-context/override basis and concurrency instrument. Keep a distinct buffer_instrument if /api/ps is a second instrument; do not restate the request instrument independently. The final MemoryFitEstablished { by: observation } / rejection receipt is already a real consumer, so this is not no-final-consumer residue.

Required discriminators include:

• a naked executed_request_receipt(400000, 4, ...) cannot become production evidence without an executed/capture receipt;
• an observed launch mismatch cannot still mint ObservedOllamaLaunchConfiguration;
• the same launch defaults and prompt count under different effective-context overrides remain distinguishable;
• an OOM before a generate response is representable without fabricating prompt_eval_count;
• five outstanding requests against four slots is possible but is not five concurrently executing slots;
• the /api/ps 400k-num_ctx fixture cannot assert a 400k prompt_eval_count unless that was separately observed.

The branch was composed with current main at review time; that part is accepted. Exact-head Actions run 33590026406 was still in progress and would not discharge the semantic counterexamples above.

Separately, the PR title still says Sparks Pair (P0->P5) even though the agreed scope says #9897 precedes P0a, and the PR body remains the auto-opened TODO template. Retitle and provide the real summary/test receipt before final approval.

[briansrls]

Operator sequencing pin: do not pull fleet convergence backward into #9897. Finish the exact selector/evidence review here, then the immediate next new Spark-serving cut is #10001.

#10001 closes only on a production join into spark_serving_converge_slice_wet plus one exact-head, exact-host wet plan→apply→whole-population readback→zero-replan→terminal-health transaction and a second zero-effect noop run. It explicitly carries the operator’s withdrawal of the dedicated-training assignment for srv6, while refusing disruptive stale-process restart until quiescence/drain evidence exists.

The point is to prevent this PR from becoming another umbrella while also preventing its landing from being treated as the end of the operational work.

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Pushed 9a033448381.

review 58449 (codex, REQUEST_CHANGES) — fixed, and it was a real defect. ParameterCounts stored base_total, activated_per_token and attached_speculative as bare Nat, and the fixture in test.claim.model.model_population_narrowing_witness_test wrote base_total: 284 to mean 284 billion. A factor of a billion carried entirely by prose, in a module whose subject is which quantization fits which host.

ParameterCount now joins its four siblings in std.measure — Measure<Count, Mega, Nat>, beside HardwareThreadCount, CharacterCount, TokenCount and Millicore. It lives there rather than in gunbc.model.publication for the reason that module's own note gives for TokenCount: Measure of Count at Mega over Nat takes only arguments std.measure already owns, so declaring it downstream would be a fifth name for a shape that module already names four times.

On the scale, since it is the one judgment call here: Mega, not Giga. The published figure is not an integer number of billions — DeepSeek-V4's own /api/show reports 284.3B — so Measure<Count, Giga, Nat> cannot write the fact and silently rounds it to 284, which is the same class of loss as the bare Nat this replaces. At Mega it is 284300 and exact, with no rational introduced. The fixture now reads parameter_count(millions: 284300), 13000, 20000.

src/v1/stage0/src/std_measure.rs is the regen actuator's own output installed verbatim (claim_executor --required-regen), not hand-written — adding a row to std/measure.dag has that mandatory second half. The actuator also rewrites compiler_tests.rs, lib.rs, gunbc_rust_source_type_bindings.rs and std_realization_schedule.rs; I deliberately left those four alone. Their drift is inherited from main (I verified the same gunbc_rust_source_type_bindings.rs failure on main at d61f8c9bc earlier), and one of them adds pub mod std_interval; for a file this tree does not carry — taking it would break the seed build. Mixing an unrelated main-drift repair into this PR would also hide it.

cargo build --release -p v1-compiler clean. w_all_population_claims_hold green on the new carrier.

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[briansrls]

APPROVED at exact head 14fb18a. The three remaining blockers are closed: (1) WarmContinuation/RestoredSession observations are structurally unwritable pending the future PrefixReuseReceipt; only FreshPrefillObservation exists and non-fresh constraints therefore refuse as Unanswerable. (2) ModelPopulation is now honestly release-grained: realization-level stages were removed rather than keyed through List, with the RealizationIdentity/RealizationPopulation carrier named as the next rung. (3) the stale memory-bound => more-nodes derivation is deleted and replaced by the current-supply vs current+proposed-supply counterfactual. Prior capacity/fabric blocker remains withdrawn. I do not require the allocatable rename/runtime_overhead relocation in this PR; those belong together in the later realization authority move. Exact-head GitHub witness workflow is still in progress as of this review, so merge remains subject to ordinary exact-head CI completing green.