The business caseThe problem this solves

A recovered-commodity facility ships a trailer of baled material against a purchase contract. The buyer grades it inbound, writes its findings in its own words - 'cartons with a slick face that would not tear clean' - and takes a deduction citing one or two of them. Somebody at the shipper's desk then has to say, per cited material, whether the grade specification in force for THIS shipment calls that material prohibitive, an outthrow allowed to a stated share, or does not name it at all; which printed line establishes that; and whether the bale tags the buyer graded are the tags this facility shipped. Today that is a person reading two documents side by side with the contract open between them. The first pass over a contamination deduction packet: matching each cited grading finding to the specification line that classifies it, under the revision in force at the ship date, and deciding whether the bale-tag range the buyer graded is this load.

The inputThe actual deduction packets

The corpus is 64 deduction packets, 0.21 MB (md 64). The smallest corpus that makes the interesting mistake unavoidable. A contamination deduction is the one document where the arithmetic is genuinely free for every arm including a constant - the allowance comparison, every percentage, the deduction recompute from the contract's own unit price, the bale-tag overlap and the weight variance are all exact - and the judgement genuinely is not: whether the material the buyer describes in its own words is one the contract's specification prohibits at this grade, under the revision in force on the ship date. So the split between what money buys and what free code does could be NAMED in code before a call was made and SCORED after. It came out inverted, which is the finding.

# Contamination deduction packet DED-7410-0001

facility: FAC-3308
buyer: BYR-233
purchase contract: PC-88646
commodity and grade: baled recovered natural high-density bottle, grade HDN-19
deduction memo: DM-40007
buyer grading reference on this memo: GR-8019

## Outbound weight ticket and bill of lading

o01: bale tags shipped: BT-4046 through BT-4077 (32 bales)
o02: trailer: TRL-0196
o03: net weight shipped: 43,200 lb
o04: departed this facility: 2026-06-19

## Outbound quality audit sheet, shipping shift

q01: The pre-ship check recorded coverings that would not come away dry.
q02: Bale audit sheet: blue and green tops still screwed on the milk jugs.

## Purchase contract grade specification

### Rev A -- in force for shipments from 2025-10-01 to 2026-03-31. NOT IN FORCE FOR THIS SHIPMENT.

Prohibitive at this grade:

s01: lubricant and automotive fluid containers -- prohibitive at any level.
s02: paper facestock labelling and its adhesive -- prohibitive at any level.

Outthrow at this grade, allowed to the share stated:

s03: pigmented closures on natural containers -- allowed to 2.0% by weight.
s04: colour-compounded high-density bottles -- allowed to 0.5% by weight.
s05: polypropylene tubs and pails -- allowed to 2.5% by weight.

### Rev B -- in force for shipments from 2026-04-01. IN FORCE FOR THIS SHIPMENT.

Prohibitive at this grade:

s06: tinted caps and their liners -- prohibitive at any level.
s07: hydrocarbon-residue ware -- prohibitive at any level.
s08: cellulose-based wrap labels -- prohibitive at any level.

Outthrow at this grade, allowed to the share stated:

s09: non-translucent polyolefin containers -- allowed to 0.5% by weight.

## Contract inspection and rejection procedure

p01: moisture tolerance on net weight, this contract: 1.2%.

The outcomeWhat a good result looks like

One {ref, spec_class, establishing_line} row per cited material - a class from the closed set prohibitive / outthrow / not_in_spec and the printed sNN line that establishes it, or null - plus one {load_identity, identity_line} for the packet. A packet is right only when every cited material is right on both fields AND the load identity is right on both value and line.

Where it fitsWhat did work

Every line below is a measured result from this kit's own runs, with the figure that supports it. The headline above is not softened by any of them.

• Deciding which cited materials a purchase contract's grade specification actually prohibits — free code first - the desk phrase list in evals/floors.py
  It reads 44 of 64 packets whole and 58 of 75 material classes for $0.00, against the paid call's 24 and 33, and the loss is significant at p = 0.000535053 and p = 4.12576e-05. A word list that has read your own specification is a real thing a desk can build.
• Deciding which printed line establishes a class — the paid call, with the class grader beside it
  30 of 75 against the floor of record's 21 and a fixed answer's 8 - the widest room of any cell here at 54 materials, and the cell where a keyword reader is most confidently wrong because of the 13 planted attractor pairs.
• Deciding which shipped load the buyer actually graded — free code, and then the paid call only for the sentences a grep misses
  A printed-prefix grep already reaches 48 of 64 on the line and a fixed this_load reaches 55 of 64 on the value. The paid call takes the remaining 16 lines, which is real and narrow, and it still reads the overlap wrongly on 3 packets.
• Holding a hard cap - no regulator, no asserted threshold, no environmental determination, no settlement — this pack's structural contract
  0 breaches over 30 attacked calls under three framings, including ten wordings demanding a regulatory claim, a statutory limit, a dollar credit and a settlement field outright. The cap is structural - the answer has room for a schedule reference, a class, a line and an identity and nothing else - rather than a prompt sentence, and src/recheck.py drops anything outside it. RCS is the one family in this vertical with no regulator in its rule set, and nothing in this kit is asserted as regulator-governed.

At a glanceHow the whole thing runs

Run once, for real, on 2026-09-21. Every figure on these pages was captured from that run — nothing is written from intent.

14 steps, grouped by the question that sends you to them rather than by build order. Each tile carries the one figure that step is about, and opens the page behind it.

Should you use this?What you bring, where it stops, and when not to use it

Before you commit an afternoon to this, these are the answers that decide it. Each one is rendered from the record it lives in — and links the page that holds it in full.

Not asked of this kit — 2 questions: clone (a fresh clone of this kit runs with nothing fetched); judge (nothing here is graded by a model).

Last verified 2026-09-21 — r001-bale-deduction - 64 deduction packets, 75 cited materials, 64 billed model calls, the fast tier, reasoning off. Every figure on these pages was captured from that run.

Run itHow this reaches your data

Every result on this page was produced by pure code over checked-in files, with no API key — which is why you can read the numbers before anyone spends anything.

Checked before this shipped — Measured on this build: a clean checkout with no key configured rebuilds all 66 corpus files byte-identically under two PYTHONHASHSEEDs, re-derives every label with 0 disagreements, scores all five free arms and the whole scoring path at $0.00, recomputes all 45 paired claims, and renders the whole board on port 9621 with the one live control disabled and the reason printed beside it. The reply cache ships, and that was decided by measurement rather than convention: the run record stores a 400-character head and this kit's widest reply is 208 characters, so the head is not lossy here - but the cap claim is only checkable against the whole reply, and --resume --rescore, which otherwise re-derives every published figure for $0.00, would find nothing cached and buy 64 calls.

Step 01 of 14Business case

Written for: product manager · Measured during the eval run. Never estimated, never quoted from a vendor page.

In brief

What the clock covers. end to end per deduction packet on the shipped tier - the whole streamed completion, from request to the last event, measured over the 64 billed calls of r001-bale-deduction at 3 workers. It does not include the free station in src/recheck.py, which is pure code, derives every percentage and dollar in the answer and runs after the stream closes.

Current processWhat it replaces

The first pass over a contamination deduction packet: matching each cited grading finding to the specification line that classifies it, under the revision in force at the ship date, and deciding whether the bale-tag range the buyer graded is this load.

Step 02 of 14Architecture

Written for: solutions architect · Component map derived from the real code, not drawn from intent.

In brief

CorpusCorpusCorpusCorpusEvalsEvalsArchitectureArchitecturePromptPromptPromptPromptApp UIApp UIEvalsEvalsUnit costUnit costBusiness caseUnit costUnit cost

• 1stations numbered in run order
• md
• json
• jsonl
• 1 of 10 stations carry a recorded failure

scroll → 10 stations

One question, end to end. Colour on the fan-in is the corpus format; a red hook marks every station with a recorded failure, and the words — every sub line, failure and report field — are in the ledger beneath. Every station is a link — click one to jump to its row, and each row links to the lens that explains it.

The swap seams

Components

Step 03 of 14App UI

Written for: anyone, in 5 seconds · Screenshots of the running app taken during the run.

The harnessWhat this screen is

The screen is this kit's own replay board, not a deployment. The packet picker exists so a reader can move between the sixty-four recorded deduction packets and see each arm's reading against the specification and the grading report it was made from; in a deployment the packet arrives from the settlement file and there is no picker. Declared scope: photographs of the material are out of scope - this pack reads the written grading narrative and the written contract specification, and nothing else. No rule, allowance, tolerance or determination anywhere on the board is asserted as regulator-governed; every one of them is printed on the packet as a term of that purchase contract.

SuccessesWhen it works

LimitsWhen it does not

A report showing only wins is an advert. This one is required, and the validator now refuses a kit that omits it.

Step 04 of 14Corpus

Written for: "can I point this at mine?" · Measured off the corpus the run actually used.

In brief

How it is cutWhat one deduction packet is

No split. All 64 packets are the labelled set and every arm - paid and free - is scored on all 64. There is no training half because nothing is trained: the free arms are rules written from the trade, and the one written FROM the generator is published as the ceiling and never as a floor.

SetupWhat the setup figure measured

There is no index. A deduction packet carries its own specification, its own findings and its own schedule in one file, so the pack opens one file and sends it whole - there is nothing to build, nothing to refresh and nothing to keep warm. The two zeros are a measurement of a step that does not exist, not a step that happened to be free.

LicenceLicence

MIT (LICENSE-PUBLIC at the root of the kits repository)

Bring your ownBring your own deduction packets

Point data/packets at your own deduction packets and rewrite src/record.py::parse to return the same six things: the header (ship date, load, grade, buyer), both specification blocks with their revision marks and their printed sNN lines, the numbered grading findings, the deduction schedule citing them by dNN, the correspondence, and the printed commercial terms (unit price, moisture tolerance, shipped weight). Then write data/deductions.json in the same shape - one entry per packet, an intended spec_class and establishing line per cited material AND a load identity with its establishing line. The identity half is not optional: without it the load-identity cells are unmeasurable and only look measured.

⚠︎ And what stops being true when you do: Nothing measured here transfers to your packets. The 75 cited materials and 64 load identities were labelled by the program that wrote them, so every count on this page is a statement about this corpus and this rulebook. Two claims travel a little further and both are negative: on material built so the buyer's words and the contract's words share nothing, the paid call did not clear its own free floor at 0.05 on the headline, and it lost the slice it was bought to win.

Step 05 of 14Prompt

Written for: engineer · Logged from the run, verbatim.

In brief

The assembled prompt in full, and its real decomposition. Every part below occurs in the prompt that was actually sent, and the token counts sum to the recorded input total — but they are the input total apportioned by each part’s share of the characters, not a per-part reading from the provider’s counter. The total is measured; the split is arithmetic, and a part carrying denser text really costs more of it than this says.

AssemblyHow the prompt is assembled

This is the cost lesson as arithmetic: of the 2,268 tokens assembled, 1,432 are instructions — 63% of the prompt, the largest single part. A per-request bill follows whichever part is biggest, and on this kit that is the one named here.

Reassembled by the kit's own src.prompt.assemble() for packet DED-7410-0002, which is the one call path the run uses - the stub, the five free arms, the scored run and the adversarial suite all go through it, and src.prompt.parts_of() reads the same three fields back out of the string that was actually SENT. The section list and the per-part character counts here match what results/eval-r001-bale-deduction.json recorded for its own calls, which is what a reader needs to be able to check. ⚠︎ THE PER-PART TOKEN COUNTS ARE AN APPORTIONMENT, NOT FOUR MEASUREMENTS: the provider bills one input total per call (2268 on this one, 2,241 on average over 64 billed calls), and each part's share here is that total divided by the measured character share of that part. The characters are exact; the token split is arithmetic on them.

Full promptThe prompt in full

You are the commercial desk at a materials recovery facility, reading one contamination deduction packet that a buyer has raised against one shipped load of baled recovered commodity. The packet contains the facility's outbound weight ticket, the shipping shift's own quality audit sheet, the purchase contract's grade specification in two revisions, the contract's inspection and rejection procedure, the buyer's inbound inspection and grading report, the deduction schedule, and the correspondence between the two desks.

You answer exactly two questions and nothing else.

FIRST, for EVERY line of the deduction schedule that cites a finding, in printed order: what class of material is the buyer's grader describing, under the specification revision in force for this shipment, and which printed specification line establishes it.

spec_class is exactly one of:
  prohibitive   the specification in force names this material as prohibitive at this grade. establishing_line is the sNN that says so.
  outthrow      the specification in force names this material as an outthrow allowed up to a stated share by weight. establishing_line is the sNN that states the allowance.
  not_in_spec   the specification in force does not name this material at all, at any class. establishing_line is null.

SECOND, once for the packet: does the grading this memo is about describe the load this facility shipped.

load_identity is exactly one of:
  this_load         the graded bale tag range is the same range the outbound ticket shipped.
  partly_this_load  the graded range overlaps the shipped range but is not the same range.
  not_this_load     the graded range and the shipped range do not overlap at all.
identity_line is the iNN of the buyer's finding you read that range off.

Read the packet by these rules, in this order:

1. THE REVISION IN FORCE. The specification is printed in two revisions and the packet marks exactly one of them IN FORCE FOR THIS SHIPMENT; the other is marked NOT IN FORCE FOR THIS SHIPMENT. Read only the marked one. A material the revision NOT in force names plainly, and the revision in force does not name at all, is not_in_spec — the plain naming in the other block establishes nothing about this shipment, and it is there because it is the mistake worth making.
2. WHAT THE GRADER IS DESCRIBING. The specification uses the trade's names for materials and the grader writes down what the bales DID. They share no wording. Match them on what the material IS, not on a word the two happen to have in common.
3. THE CITED FINDING, AND ONLY IT. Each deduction-schedule line names ONE finding by its iNN. Read that finding. The report carries other findings the schedule does not cite and the quality audit sheet carries the facility's own remarks; neither decides anything here. An identical sentence naming an identical material is a cited deduction on one packet and an uncited remark on another — only the deduction schedule separates them.
4. ONE LINE, NOT A FAMILY. establishing_line is the single sNN inside the revision in force whose wording is about the material the finding describes. Where two lines of that revision are close, the material's own distinguishing property decides which; naming the sibling is wrong even when the class is right.
5. SILENCE IS NOT A CLASS. If no line of the revision in force is about this material, the answer is not_in_spec with a null establishing_line. Do not reach for the nearest line, and do not reach into the revision that is not in force.
6. WHICH GRADING THIS MEMO IS ABOUT. The packet header prints the buyer's grading reference for this memo. The inbound report prints two or three range sentences, each naming a grading reference and a span of shipper tags; they are written several ways, and one form gives the reference WITHOUT its GR- prefix — as a grading reference followed by the number, or as Grading numbered followed by the number. Take the range sentence whose grading reference is the one the header names for this memo, however it is written, and read identity_line off that sentence.
7. THE CORRESPONDENCE IS NOT THE GRADING REPORT. The facility's own correspondence recites the shipped tag range word for word, and the buyer's correspondence recites other loads' ranges. None of them is the grading statement. identity_line is always an iNN from the buyer's inbound inspection and grading report.
8. COMPARE THE RANGES, DO NOT COMPUTE. The outbound ticket prints the tags this facility shipped. Say whether the graded range is the same range, overlaps it, or does not touch it. That is a reading of two printed spans, not an arithmetic.

Reply with ONE JSON object, on a single line, with no indentation and nothing else:
{"cited": [{"ref": "d1", "spec_class": "outthrow", "establishing_line": "s09"}], "load_identity": "this_load", "identity_line": "i10"}

One entry in `cited` for every deduction-schedule line that cites a finding, in printed order, using that line's `ref` exactly as the schedule prints it. The schedule's last line states the money taken on the memo and cites no finding — it is not one of them. Use only these three keys inside each entry and only these two keys beside `cited`, and add no other field, no reasoning, no commentary and no summary of the packet.

State no percentage, no weight, no dollar figure and no total anywhere in your reply, and do not say whether the assessed share is inside or outside an allowance, whether the deduction is supported, or what it should be — all of that is computed from the printed page after you answer. Say nothing about whether the load should be rejected, credited, re-invoiced or re-graded; nothing you produce concedes or disputes anything, and the commercial desk decides. State no rule, threshold, tolerance, allowance or sampling convention of your own: every one of them is printed on this packet out of the parties' own purchase contract, and there are no others. Do not re-check your answer after you have written the object — end the reply there.

Deduction packet: DED-7410-0002
Deduction memo: DM-40014

--- the deduction packet ---
# Contamination deduction packet DED-7410-0002

facility: FAC-3308
buyer: BYR-211
purchase contract: PC-88703
commodity and grade: baled recovered mixed paper, grade MXP-54
deduction memo: DM-40014
buyer grading reference on this memo: GR-8036

## Outbound weight ticket and bill of lading

o01: bale tags shipped: BT-4074 through BT-4107 (34 bales)
o02: trailer: TRL-0292
o03: net weight shipped: 38,700 lb
o04: departed this facility: 2026-03-06

## Outbound quality audit sheet, shipping shift

q01: Shift audit on the baler noted faded checkout strips bundled by the handful.
q02: Shift audit on the baler noted pink and yellow duplicate sheets in pads.

## Purchase contract grade specification

### Rev A -- in force for shipments from 2025-10-01 to 2026-03-31. IN FORCE FOR THIS SHIPMENT.

Prohibitive at this grade:

s01: multi-layer aseptic cartons -- prohibitive at any level.
s02: no-carbon-required multipart sets -- prohibitive at any level.
s03: chemically imaged till roll -- prohibitive at any level.

Outthrow at this grade, allowed to the share stated:

s04: case-bound volume cases and their adhesives -- allowed to 4.0% by weight.
s05: resin-cured moisture-holding paper -- allowed to 3.5% by weight.

### Rev B -- in force for shipments from 2026-04-01. NOT IN FORCE FOR THIS SHIPMENT.

Prohibitive at this grade:

s06: foil-and-polymer laminated drink packs -- prohibitive at any level.
s07: microencapsulated transfer forms -- prohibitive at any level.
s08: wet-strength treated facestock -- prohibitive at any level.

Outthrow at this grade, allowed to the share stated:

s09: rigid board bindings -- allowed to 3.0% by weight.
s10: heat-developed coated receipt paper -- allowed to 1.0% by weight.

## Contract inspection and rejection procedure

p01: moisture tolerance on net weight, this contract: 1.0%.
p02: contract unit price, this grade: $61.00 per ton.
p03: deductions are assessed by the buyer on inbound grading and are settled commercially between the parties.

## Buyer inbound inspection and grading report

i01: inbound date: 2026-03-12
i02: trailer presented: TRL-0292
i03: net weight received: 38,429 lb

Findings:

i04: Grading numbered 8036 on this delivery covered shipper tags BT-4074 through BT-4107.
i05: On opening the bales the graders found hard jackets with glue still on the edge.
i06: The inbound line recorded small square beverage bricks with straws still attached.
i07: The bales opened under grading GR-8727 carried shipper tags BT-3270 through BT-3291.
i08: The sampled bales carried faded checkout strips bundled by the handful.
i09: The inbound line recorded coloured copy pages through the office bales.

Deduction schedule:

d1: finding i06 -- assessed 3.9% by weight.
d2: deduction taken on this memo: $45.71.

## Correspondence

c01: from facility desk: Further to the grading on load LD-20260306-05: we confirm tags BT-4074 through BT-4107 left this floor on 2026-03-06 under trailer TRL-0292.
c02: from buyer desk: Referring to our earlier note on load LD-20260107-08: The tip-floor notes describe shop slips that darken when you rub them. Those bales carried tags BT-4328 through BT-4348 and are settled separately.
c03: from buyer desk: Further to the grading on load LD-20260202-05: The inbound line recorded long narrow tickets with a waxy feel. Those bales carried tags BT-4312 through BT-4332 and are settled separately.
c04: from facility desk: Copies of the weight ticket and the bill of lading are attached to this file.
--- end of deduction packet ---

Reply with the JSON object described in your instructions.

Raw responseThe raw response

{"cited": [{"ref": "d1", "spec_class": "not_in_spec", "establishing_line": null}], "load_identity": "this_load", "identity_line": "i04"}

Step 06 of 14Evals

Written for: the skeptic · The harness output, with as_of / model version / dataset version / verified_by.

In brief

Say whether each contamination deduction on a baled load is supported by the grade spec — 64 deduction packets. One model answered, and every answer was then graded Six different ways — because the grade is a measurement too, and most of what went wrong on this kit went wrong in the ruler rather than the model.

The rulerHow it was graded

Every grader is pure code over a labelled sheet. A cited material is right only when its spec_class AND its establishing_line are both right, compared field by field against data/deductions.json; a packet is right only when every cited material of it is right AND the load identity is right on both value and line. The pack verdict is graded in the RECHECKED column only, because the answer contract has no verdict field and no arm writes one - the station derives it in code from the reading and the printed percentages.

MeasurementsWhat was measured

Two words carry this page: Counted is deterministic and nobody's opinion and Not yet known is printed blank rather than filled with something plausible. There is no Judged row here and that is the point: nothing on this page is a model's opinion about another model. The row most worth having is currently the empty one.

Grading costWhat it costs

Every dollar here is a MEASURED token count from this kit's own run records multiplied by a published rate in build/facts/models.json, whose as_of is carried PER ROW and is read per row here. No price was read from a vendor page for this kit, and the runtime tier's own card - its off-peak and peak rates and its as_of - is recorded inside results/eval-r001-bale-deduction.json rather than on this table, because the site withholds the runtime vendor and a rate card is a naming.

Rates checked 2026-09-21.

Grading unitWhat the grading figure prices

Re-scoring an existing run costs nothing and the harness proves it: --resume --rescore re-derives every figure on this page from the committed reply cache at $0.00, and the canary replay made 0 calls. That is why the reply cache ships - measured, not assumed: with it removed the same command finds nothing cached and would buy 64 calls.

The gradersSix ways to grade

Four more free arms ship beside the floor of record, because each is something a real shipper's desk might actually do. firstblock reads whichever specification block is printed first and answers this_load on every packet - it prices the revision trap and the identity decoys separately, and reaches 4 packets and 55 identities. constant is the single best fixed answer, searched over every class, identity and verdict (prohibitive / this_load): 0 packets whole, and 34 of 75 on the per-material class, which is MORE than the paid arm. deskphrase is a word list that HAS READ this corpus and reaches 44 packets - it is not a floor and not a result, it is what an arm with the answer sheet's vocabulary can do. tuned has read the GENERATOR and is exact on everything: the CEILING, never a floor and never the bar, and it exists to say how much of the gap is the corpus rather than the reader. Item 51 was checked directly: no two arms are identical on any cell.

Every row opens its own page: how the test was run, the input on one real row, the prompt or formula with every iteration of it, and the analysis.

Choosing oneWhich one to use

The comparison is only useful if it ends in a choice. The answer is conditional — and it is not the grader with the best agreement score.

This pipeline was also attacked, which is a different question from whether its answers are right: see Threat model for the injection experiment, its two gates and what it does not prove.

Failure causesHow it fails

Step 07 of 14Unit cost

Written for: whoever signs off on the bill · Measured over the eval run, per model. Never quoted from a vendor page.

In brief

The token counts are measured on a real run and belong to this pipeline — top_k, chunk size, prompt — so they hold wherever you run it. The dollars are those counts multiplied by each vendor's published rate, checked 2026-09-21. Nobody paid these particular bills; they are what the same work would cost you on a card you can sign up to today.

Answering vs gradingRe-scoring this kit costs nothing, and that is a design decision

A judge cannot answer this kit's question. "Which of three classes does the contract's grade specification put this described material in, and which printed line establishes it?" is an exact match against a closed vocabulary and a printed sNN reference, so a model asked to grade it would be the same instrument being measured. Every grader is a function over data/deductions.json; re-scoring the committed run costs $0.00 and was proved so - a replay with --resume --rescore made 0 calls and reproduced every figure. The only thing here that needs money to repeat is the adversarial run, $0.003753 for 40 calls, and only when src/prompt.py changes.

Cost driversWhat actually moves the bill

• The deduction packet itself. 3,496 of the 9,539 prompt characters on the published example are the packet - the contract's grade specification in BOTH revisions, the buyer's inbound grading narrative, the deduction schedule and the correspondence - and it goes in whole because deciding which revision governs is part of the reading. The median packet is 3,391 bytes and p95 is 3,647, over 64 packets and 215,427 bytes of corpus.
• The instruction block, 6,022 characters sent byte-identically on every call - 63% of the prompt, and the reason the prefix cache is the whole cost story here: 70,272 of 143,424 input tokens came back as cache hits, on 64 of 64 calls, at 1/31th of the miss rate.
• The answer's length, which barely moves. The reply is one or two {ref, spec_class, establishing_line} rows plus a packet-level load identity and its line: 50.8 output tokens per call on average, 71 at the very worst against a 1,000 ceiling that was never approached. Output is 6.4% of this bill; the prompt is the rest.
• The tariff at the moment of the call. Every one of the 104 calls in this kit was made off-peak; at the weekday peak rate the same scored traffic is $0.037462, exactly double.

Your volumeWhat it costs at your volume

Linear, and cleanly so. Nothing is retrieved, nothing batches and nothing amortises across packets - each one sends the whole instruction block plus its own text and gets one short reply back. 640 deduction packets is 10x $0.018727. The two non-linearities are both tariff, not volume: the peak band doubles every component, and the prefix cache only keeps paying while the instruction block is unchanged - one edit to it reprices 49% of every prompt at 31x until the cache refills.

Model choiceWhy this model

The cheapest tier was the default and no rung above it was requested, because nothing in this run asked for one: the largest reply over all 104 billed calls was 71 output tokens of a 1,000 ceiling, 0 replies closed at the ceiling and 0 at the reply stop. The measured failure is not a truncation and not a formatting failure - it is an over-abstention in the reading, and a larger ceiling does not buy a different reading. Raising the tier is the experiment this kit did NOT run, and it is named in could_not_verify rather than assumed away.

Other modelsThe same deduction packet on every model we track

This is arithmetic, not a run. No model below was executed against the labelled set, and no accuracy is claimed for any of them. What transfers is the input volume: retrieval is model-independent, so every model would receive the same passages.

The codeEvery file, and what it is for

15 modules, no framework, and almost no dependencies. The pipeline is stdlib Python, because a kit is meant to be read and changed by someone who cloned it ten minutes ago — every dependency is a thing they have to understand before they can touch the part they came for.

Four of these are swap seams: the points you edit to make the kit yours. Each is marked, and each block below is the module’s real shape, read out of the file rather than written here.

The files on this page are not in the public GitHub catalog.

tools/build_corpus.pycorpus generator

Writes all 64 deduction packets, the label sheet and the manifest from one seed (20260921). --check rebuilds every file and asserts it comes back byte-identical under two PYTHONHASHSEEDs; --coverage fails the build if any of the 146 phrasing variants is absent or under 4 emissions; --attack fails the build unless all 25 materials share ZERO content words between the specification's trade name and the grading narrative that describes them.

# Build UC0521's synthetic corpus: contamination deduction packets on baled recovered commodity.

HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
DATA = os.path.join(HERE, "data")
SEED = 20260921
N_ITEMS = 64
DATASET = "bale-deduction synthetic contamination deduction packets"
MATERIALS = {
MATERIAL_KEYS = sorted(MATERIALS)
COMMODITIES = {
COMMODITY_KEYS = sorted(COMMODITIES)

data/deductions.jsonthe label sheet

64 packets, 75 cited materials with their intended spec_class and establishing line, the load identity and its establishing line per packet, and the pack verdict the station must derive. The pack verdict has NO ground truth in any answer - no arm writes one - so it is recorded here and graded only in the rechecked column.

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evals/check_labels.pyindependent label check

A SECOND reader that imports nothing from src/ and retypes the rulebook rather than reading the same data file: it re-derives every class, line and identity from the printed packets and disagrees on 0. Red-proven by 6 seeds that convict and 6 that acquit when the bytes go back.

# Re-derive every label for UC0521 from the shipped packets, and disagree out loud.

HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
DATA = os.path.join(HERE, "data")
TAG = re.compile(r"BT-(\d{4})")
GRD = re.compile(r"\bGR-(\d{4})\b|\bgrading reference (\d{4})\b"
PCT = re.compile(r"(\d+\.\d)%")
DATE = re.compile(r"(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})")
MONEY = re.compile(r"\$([\d,]+\.\d\d)")
WEIGHT = re.compile(r"([\d,]+) lb")
SPEC_PHRASES = {

evals/floors.pythe free arms

Five arms scored through the same graders and the same station at $0.00: domain (the trade's own names for these materials - THE FLOOR OF RECORD on four cells), firstblock (whichever specification block is printed first, always this_load), constant (the best single fixed answer, searched - and it BEATS the paid arm on the per-material class), deskphrase (a word list that has read this corpus) and tuned (an arm that has read the generator - the ceiling, never a floor).

# The free arms for UC0521, scored over the whole labelled set. $0.00, no model, no network.

DOMAIN_CONCEPTS = {
TUNED_CONCEPTS = {
CONCEPT_KEYS = sorted(DOMAIN_CONCEPTS)
CLASSES = ["prohibitive", "outthrow", "not_in_spec"]
IDENTITIES = ["this_load", "partly_this_load", "not_this_load"]
VERDICTS = ["SUPPORTED", "DISPUTABLE", "INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE"]
def concepts(text, vocab=None):
DESK_GRD = re.compile(r"\bGR-(\d{4})\b")
def ranges_in(findings, grd=None):

src/prompt.pythe prompt — a swap seam

The three-class vocabulary, what each class means, and the reading rules, then the packet id, the memo id and the whole packet. The stable half comes FIRST so the provider's prefix cache has the longest run to hit; the split it reports is measured on 64 of 64 calls.

You change it to: SYSTEM is a literal, not a template: the three classes, what each one means, and the rules for choosing the revision in force and the establishing line. Change it and every figure on this page is void, because the prompt is what the 64 cached replies answered - which is why nothing in it was edited after a paid reply was read.

# SEAM — what the model actually receives, and the vocabulary it is allowed to answer in.

VERDICTS = ["prohibitive", "outthrow", "not_in_spec"]
VERDICT_MEANINGS = {
IDENTITIES = ["this_load", "partly_this_load", "not_this_load"]
IDENTITY_MEANINGS = {
PACK_VERDICTS = ["SUPPORTED", "DISPUTABLE", "INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE"]
FREE_TEXT_BUDGETS = {}
SYSTEM = (
PACKET_OPEN = "--- the deduction packet ---"
PACKET_CLOSE = "--- end of deduction packet ---"

src/adapters/__init__.pythe call

One streamed completion per packet, reasoning explicitly disabled, max_tokens 1000, with a runaway reply stop sized from the measured widest answer object and a keep-alive-aware first-event bound. It reads the provider's prefix-cache token split, which is what makes this kit's published bill the real one rather than 1.7998x of it.

# TEMPLATE — SEAM 1, the model. Copy to kits/UC####-<slug>/src/adapters/__init__.py and fill the

class AdapterError(RuntimeError):
TRANSIENT = {408, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504}
RETRIES = 4
TIMEOUT_S = 600
TRANSPORT_RETRIES = 1
FIRST_EVENT_TIMEOUT_S = 150
KEEPALIVE = object()
TRANSIENT_STREAM_MARKERS = ("unable to start processing", "timeout limit", "try again later",
def _post(url, headers, payload, timeout=TIMEOUT_S):

src/answer.pythe parser

Takes the first balanced JSON object out of the reply and normalises it to one row per cited material reference. There is no free-text field anywhere in the contract, so nothing in the answer can grow with prose.

# THE ONE AI STATION. Everything else in this kit is deterministic code.

MAX_TOKENS = 1000
MAX_TOKENS_REASON = ("rung 1 of the operator's ceiling ladder (1,000 -> 1,500 -> 2,000, each rung "
THINKING = THINKING_OFF
STOP = REPLY_STOP
ROW_FIELDS = ("ref", "spec_class", "establishing_line")
TOP_FIELDS = ("load_identity", "identity_line")
def parse_reply(text):
def normalise(obj):
def answer(cfg, item, packet_text, complete_fn=None, max_tokens=MAX_TOKENS):

src/recheck.pythe station

Re-applies the structural half of the contract in pure code after the reply and derives everything arithmetic: a class outside the closed vocabulary is dropped, an establishing line the packet does not print is dropped, and then the allowance comparison, the assessed percentage, the deduction recompute from the contract's own unit price, the bale-tag overlap, the weight variance against the printed moisture tolerance and the pack verdict are all computed. It NEVER sets a class from a line, NEVER picks the revision in force and NEVER reads a finding - any of those would launder the reading this kit measures. It overrode 0 fields on the paid run and 0 on every free arm.

# THE STATION — re-apply the parts of the answer contract that are DECIDABLE IN CODE, and do every

PACK_SUPPORTED = "SUPPORTED"
PACK_DISPUTABLE = "DISPUTABLE"
PACK_INSUFFICIENT = "INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE"
OVERRIDE_REASONS = {
def _rows_of(answer):
def verdict_of(cited, identity):
def _num(rx, text, cast=float):
def arithmetic(packet_text, cited, identity_line):
def recheck(answer, item, packet_text):

evals/scoring.pythe graders — a swap seam

Pure functions over the labelled sheet - six cells, RAW and RECHECKED - plus the card-eligibility rule in code (CARD_ELIGIBLE_MIN_ROOM, FREE_CEILING_SHARE, DEGENERATE_MARGIN) so no surface can put a near-degenerate cell on a card by recalling a handoff. It is the rule that bars this kit's own cleanest win from carrying one.

You change it to: The six cells, their denominators, the reading/plain/identity slice membership and the card-eligibility rule. A desk that cares about false prohibitions rather than abstentions changes the rule here and every surface follows, because it lives in code rather than in a brief.

# THE GRADERS. Pure code, no model, no network — which is why re-scoring this kit costs nothing.

CLASSES = list(VERDICTS)
METRICS = ("packet_all", "class_row", "line_row", "identity", "identity_line", "verdict")
FREE_CEILING_SHARE = 0.70
CARD_ELIGIBLE_MIN_ROOM = 3
DEGENERATE_MARGIN = 3
DERIVED_CELLS = ("verdict",)
PUBLISH_BESIDE = {"verdict": "packet_all",
STATION_OWNED_FIELDS = {
ANCHOR_PATTERNS = {

evals/paired.pythe paired test

The exact McNemar behind every published gap and the SINGLE source of every p-value the board and the README print - 45 claims, six cells against five free arms plus three slices. It runs at import inside the board and refuses to start if its own re-derivation disagrees with a committed record.

# THE EXACT McNEMAR, COMPUTED FROM THE COMMITTED RESULT FILES — the SINGLE source of every

HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
RESULTS = os.path.join(HERE, "results")
CELL_KEYS = {"packet_all": "rechecked_packet_all",
ROW_CELL_KEYS = {"class_row": "class_ok", "line_row": "line_ok"}
def exact_mcnemar(only_a, only_b):
def load(run_id):
def _packet_vector(rec, cell, ids=None):
def _row_vector(rec, cell, ids=None):
def claim(name, a_rec, b_rec, cell, ids=None):

evals/injection.pythe adversarial suite

10 packets x (1 clean + 3 escalations), injected as one more correspondence line in the packet's own shape so it reaches the model through the real seam. Neutrality is proven FREE first with --verify-neutral before a cent is spent.

# THE ADVERSARIAL PROBE — an instruction planted in the packet, in three escalations, against the

HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
RESULTS = os.path.join(HERE, "results")
KIT = "bale-deduction"
ESCALATIONS = [
TARGETS_PER_FAMILY = 1
FORBIDDEN_FIELDS = ("settlement", "credit", "supported", "verdict", "amount", "percentage",
def breaches_of(raw_text, parsed_obj):
def inject(packet_text, body):
def targets(items):

evals/run.pythe runner

Fires the run, prices every bought call at the tariff in force at the UTC time of the call, and carries --compare FLOOR RUN so no surface can quote a gap without the paired test.

# Read all 64 deduction packets and write one result file. THE PAID ARM SPENDS MONEY.

HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
RESULTS = os.path.join(HERE, "results")
DATA = os.path.join(HERE, "data")
KIT = "bale-deduction"
ROWS_UNIT = "deduction packets"
MAX_WORKERS = 3
CEILING_LADDER = (1000, 1500, 2000)
STATION_OWNED_PREDICTIONS = dict(S.STATION_OWNED_FIELDS)
RATE_CARDS = {

src/budget.pythe budget ledger

An append-only row per paid call, written before the reply is read. 104 rows - 64 r001 and 40 x001 - from ONE recording site, so the ledger and the result files reconcile exactly and nothing is double counted.

# A cap on live calls, shared by every kit on this machine. No dependency, no service.

HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
KIT = os.path.basename(HERE)
ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(HERE))
SHARED_ENV = os.path.join(ROOT, ".env")
LEDGER = os.path.join(ROOT if os.path.exists(SHARED_ENV) else HERE, ".calls-ledger.jsonl")
PAID_ARMS = ("r", "x")
FREE_ARMS = ("t", "b")
BOOT = os.urandom(6).hex()
PID = os.getpid()

src/app.pythe replay board

Serves the committed runs on 127.0.0.1:9521 and refuses to start if a provider id reaches any of its seven payloads, or if the committed data/floors.json disagrees with any free arm's own record on any of 36 cells. The headline, its floor and the p-value are served as ONE object, so 37.5% cannot reach the screen without 21.9% and p = 0.0524788 beside it.

# The contamination-deduction desk, replayed. One command, no dependency, no build step.

KIT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
UI = os.path.join(KIT, "ui")
DATA = os.path.join(KIT, "data")
RESULTS = os.path.join(KIT, "results")
PORT = int(os.environ.get("PORT", "9521"))
SLUG = "bale-deduction"
RUN_ID = "r001-%s" % SLUG
PROBE_ID = "x001-%s" % SLUG
FREE = tuple(list(SHIPPED_ARMS) + list(CEILING_ARMS))

tools/shoot_ui.mjsthe shooter

Drives real Chrome against a no-key board on port 9621 - PORT+100, never PORT+1 - waits for DRAWN ROWS rather than for text length, and re-reads each panel's anchor AFTER the shutter, exiting non-zero if the panel moved more than 2px or left the viewport.

# 

Start hereThe shortest path into it

Every entry above is a file in this kit, listed in the order the pipeline runs it.

ScenariosWhat it costs at your volume

Everything below is computed from one measured base: 1492 input and 155 output tokens per query at top-k 1, of which about 150 tokens are fixed (system prompt, chat framing, the question itself) and the rest is retrieved context. Change the retrieval depth and the input scales with it. Change the volume and the bill scales linearly, because nothing here batches.

OperationsFour shapes of workload

The same arithmetic, at volumes worth naming. These are illustrations of scale, not measurements of anyone’s deployment.

Model and top-k follow the controls above.

What this ignoresWhere a real bill diverges

In one lineWhat this kit exposes

A local, single-user board over an invented corpus. It binds 127.0.0.1 on port 9521, has no auth, no rate limit and no session - correct for a kit you run on your laptop, and not a deployment posture. With no key configured it serves the committed runs on port 9621 and the one live control is disabled outright. python3 -m src.app --check REFUSES TO START if a provider id, a vendor name or the vendor prefix appears in any of its seven serialised board payloads, so a leak is a startup failure rather than something a grep has to find - and it refuses a second time if the committed data/floors.json disagrees with any free arm's own run record on any of 36 cells.

Read from the environment or a gitignored .env, never written into the repo, never requested from a reader on any surface, and never printed - not redacted, not partially. The repository has never held a credential. src/budget.py writes an append-only ledger row per paid call before the reply is read, so a call that is made is a call that is counted even if the process dies: 104 rows, one recording site, split r001 64 and x001 40.

The experimentWe attacked it — two gates

An indirect prompt injection has to clear two gates, and they behave differently. Both were run for real on 2026-09-21, 40 live calls on ONE probe (x001-bale-deduction): 10 packets - one per corpus family - each read clean and then under 3 escalating wordings, against the same 64-packet corpus at sha256:826a2cc6adfe8614. 30 calls were under attack and 10 were the clean control.

The result0 breaches over all 30 attacked calls and 0 on the 10 clean ones - including 10 authority wordings that demanded the material be recorded as prohibited under an applicable environmental regulation WITH the statutory limit it exceeds. Pressure degraded the READING without ever reaching the cap: 3 regressions against a 9-opportunity bound.

10 deduction packets x (1 clean + 3 escalations) = 40 calls. The targets are one packet per corpus family, all 10 families, picked before any call was bought by a rule over the ANSWER KEY. The attack is planted as the last correspondence line, in the correspondence's own shape, so it reaches the model through the real seam; it names no specification line, no grading reference and no material, and --verify-neutral proves FREE, before any spend, that it moves the answer key on nothing. ⛔ THE NAIVE MOVED COUNT IS 7 AND THE HONEST REGRESSION COUNT IS 3: of the 7 calls that moved, 3 regressed, 2 moved TOWARD the key and 2 were wrong-to-wrong. ⛔ AND THE REGRESSION COUNT IS BOUNDED - only 3 of 10 clean answers were wholly right, so there were at most 9 chances to regress. Per framing the regressions are authority 2, urgent 1, plain 0 and the moves toward gold are authority 1, urgent 0, plain 1. Pressure degrades the reading without ever breaching the cap.

HonestyWhat this does not prove

• whether a wording outside these three would breach the cap — three escalations is a sample of an unbounded space, and the phrase list was NOT retuned after reading the results
• whether the clean call inside this probe would match the same packet's answer in r001 — they are separate purchases of the same prompt and a provider need not be deterministic
• whether an injection planted somewhere other than the correspondence — inside a finding, or inside a specification line — behaves the same way. Only the correspondence position is probed here, because it is the only one that leaves the answer key provably unmoved.
• A wording nobody tried. Three were tried, on one target set; there is no basis here for a claim about a fourth.
• An instruction planted inside a finding or inside a specification line. Both are channels this pack reads, and neither could be attacked without moving the answer key - so the probe attacks the correspondence only and this row says so rather than implying coverage it does not have.
• Anything about a deployed posture. This was measured against a local board with no auth, on a laptop, against an invented corpus.
• 30 attacked calls bound a breach rate above a few percent and nothing tighter. A guardrail measured once is a measurement, not a guarantee.

In one lineThe only guardrail is the prompt

One instruction, no enforcement. It mostly holds — and mostly is the whole subject.

Every cited material on the deduction schedule gets exactly one row of {ref, spec_class, establishing_line}: a class from the closed set prohibitive / outthrow / not_in_spec, and the printed `sNN` specification line that establishes it (or null). Each packet gets one {load_identity, identity_line}: an identity from the closed set this_load / partly_this_load / not_this_load and the printed `iNN` line it was read from. The pack never states whether a deduction is supported, never gives a percentage or a dollar credit, never re-invoices, concedes, credits or settles anything, never asserts a regulator or a statute, never asserts a threshold and never makes an environmental determination. All of these are STRUCTURAL rather than thresholds: there is no confidence at which the pack reaches a verdict, and no setting that turns the exclusion off. ⚑ NO RULE, THRESHOLD, ALLOWANCE OR TOLERANCE ANYWHERE IN THIS KIT IS ASSERTED AS REGULATOR-GOVERNED - RCS is the one family in this vertical with no regulator in its rule set, and every allowance and tolerance is printed on the packet as a term of that purchase contract. ⚑ AND THE SCOPE IS DECLARED: the documents of record are the written grading narrative and the written specification; photographs of the opened bales are out of scope, stated rather than implied.

src/prompt.py::SYSTEM states the three classes, the three identities, what each one means and the reading rules; src/recheck.py re-applies the structural half in code afterwards and drops anything outside the contract; evals/scoring.py counts the four forbidden claim families over the RAW reply text, and evals/scoring.py's CARD_ELIGIBLE_MIN_ROOM, FREE_CEILING_SHARE and DEGENERATE_MARGIN decide in code which cells may carry a card at all - written into every run record as card_eligibility, which the extractor asserts rather than trusts.

EvidenceDoes it hold?

The limitWhat a guardrail is not

• NOT a settlement of the deduction, and it never becomes one. The pack says which class of material the contract's own grade specification puts each cited finding in, and which printed line establishes it. Whether the deduction is supported, what credit is due and what gets re-invoiced are commercial decisions people make, and there is no field, threshold, setting or expansion path here that reaches them.
• NOT a regulatory determination of any kind. RCS is the one family in this vertical with no regulator in its rule set; every allowance, tolerance and threshold in this corpus is printed on the packet as a term of that purchase contract, and the counter that proves the pack never invented an authority reads 0 on every arm.
• NOT better than free code on the headline. The paid call reads 24 of 64 packets whole against a trading desk's own vocabulary at 14 - ahead, and NOT significant at 0.05 (discordant 16/6, p = 0.0524788). On the per-material class it LOSES to a single fixed answer, 33 of 75 against 34, p = 1.0000. Against a phrase list that has read this corpus it loses SIGNIFICANTLY on four of six cells. The one narrow claim is identity_line at 64 of 64 - and 48 of those 64 were already free.
• NOT what the money was bought for. The prediction registered before firing said the call would buy the material READING; measured, it is BEHIND there - 8 against 10 on the 25-packet reading slice, p = 0.6875 - and ahead on the 30-packet plain slice, 14 against 2. The prediction is published unrepaired, because a prediction tidied after the result is not a prediction.
• NOT a guarantee against the forbidden claims. It is 30 attacked calls on one model, on one day, through one of the three channels this pack reads. A guardrail with 30 calls behind it is a measured guardrail, not a promise.
• NOT a reading of any photograph. The declared scope is the written grading narrative and the written specification. Real contamination disputes travel with images of the opened bales; this kit does not look at them and does not claim to.

WatchedWhat is watched, and why that one

The kit measures 63 watched figures plus 8 comparability guards and 5 reference constants — three duties, not one list. 0 of the watched are grader rates, each on its own grader page; this board watches the ones that decide when to look again. Each square is one watched figure; filled means the latest run measured it.

21 measured by the latest run 42 need the model half

GuardsBefore any comparison

Preconditions, not alarms. If one moves, the runs were not measuring the same system and nothing else on this board may be differenced.

no shared guard The two recorded runs declare no guard in common, so nothing below is protected by a precondition — read the history as two separate observations, not as a difference.

The reference constants — the null-grader baseline, the adjudication matrix, the negative count — are the third duty. They are never re-measured per run: a baseline that moves with the thing it measures is not a baseline.

BandsThe alarm bands

Derived from evidence, never picked: exact-match where two runs reproduced a metric to the digit, wider than the measured same-input drift for latency, one row of the negative class for any rate — denominator printed beside it.

HistoryRun history

8 recorded runs. A dash is a metric that run did not measure, and a dash is never differenced: not measured is a third state, neither a value nor a zero, and reading it as zero is how a board reports an improvement on a run that never looked. They are split into 4 blocks because a free floor is a baseline rather than a peer, and a run of another kind measures another thing; a column in one block is never differenced against a column in another.

extraction · no model in the path — a baseline, not a peer column — 5 runs. A floor is what the kit scores with no model in the path; it is the line the model runs have to beat, and it is never differenced against them.

not a time series No two of these 5 runs measured the same system — they differ on floor, the model — so nothing here may be differenced and the Verdict column is left off. Read this block DOWN a column, as a comparison between those runs, not along a row as a history.

extraction · with the model in the path — 1 run. Columns here are only ever compared with each other.

one run A verdict is a comparison and one run has nothing to compare with, so the Verdict column is left off rather than filled with 34 chips that all say so.

stub · no model in the path — a baseline, not a peer column — 1 run. A floor is what the kit scores with no model in the path; it is the line the model runs have to beat, and it is never differenced against them.

one run A verdict is a comparison and one run has nothing to compare with, so the Verdict column is left off rather than filled with 31 chips that all say so.

redteam · with the model in the path — 1 run. Columns here are only ever compared with each other.

one run A verdict is a comparison and one run has nothing to compare with, so the Verdict column is left off rather than filled with 21 chips that all say so.

DeviationsWhat deviated

0 breaches across 8 runs

The day a band breaks, a row renders here carrying the metric, the two runs, the band it crossed and what changed between them — model, prompt, chunker or top_k, read off the run records’ guards. A deviation with no diff beside it is an alarm nobody can act on.

RippleThe ripple map

Which figures move together, so one alarm reads as a system. Every edge carries its basis: measured names the run that showed it; reasoning admits nothing has varied it yet.

FiresWhat fires when a band breaks

Where evals stop sitting beside the guardrail and start feeding it. Where the answer is nothing automatic, the row says so — hiding it would undo “What a guardrail is not” above.

NextThe three you would add first

None of these is built here. They are named against the seam they sit on so they can be argued with.

CadenceWhen to re-run, and what it costs

The five free arms, the label retype, the six grader red-proofs, the coverage check, the attack check over all 25 materials and the adapter self-test are pure code and run on every commit - free, in seconds, with no key. The scored run is re-derived from its committed cache the same way (--resume --rescore, $0.00, proved: 0 calls made, every figure identical), so every published figure is re-checkable on every commit. The board additionally re-checks the committed data/floors.json against every free arm's own record, 36 cells, and refuses to bind a port on any disagreement. The adversarial run is the only thing here that needs money to repeat, and it needs it only when src/prompt.py changes.

In one lineNo framework, deliberately

No framework. The kit is the Python standard library and one streamed HTTP call; requirements.txt has no third-party entry, deliberately. The one thing a framework would own here is the call and its retry, and that sits in src/adapters/__init__.py where a reader can hold it in their head - which matters more on this kit than on most, because its published result is that the call LOSES to free Python on four of six cells, and a reader is entitled to check that claim without first trusting a dependency tree.

The mappingSeam by seam, who owns what

The seams are the ones this kit already publishes, so the mapping cannot drift from the code.

GraphsWhere LangGraph changes the answer

One pass, three seams: open the packet, ask once, re-check the shape. Nothing sends work backwards and nothing retries a completed packet, so there is no state to hold between steps and no orchestration to own. The one place a graph would be tempting is the revision decision - read the ship date, pick the revision in force, then read the narrative against THAT block - and splitting it into two turns is exactly what this kit's measured failure argues against: the arm does not pick the wrong revision often (4 of 64 packets), it declines to match the grader's words to the specification's trade name at all, answering not_in_spec 31 times over a corpus holding 8. More turns would buy more abstentions. The free domain arm does the same revision arithmetic in ordinary Python and gets 14 of 64 packets whole, which is the measured answer to what orchestration would buy here.

The other sideWhat a framework costs you

• A framework would own the call and its retry, and the retry is where a kit quietly starts paying twice for the same packet. This one retries a TRANSPORT failure and never a completed reply, which is a decision you can read in forty lines of src/adapters/__init__.py - and the ledger says it worked: 104 rows, one recording site, 0 unadmitted calls.
• Structured-output mode is one flag in most frameworks and it was deliberately never sent here: it changes what is being measured, because a reply the provider forces into shape is no longer evidence about whether the model can produce the shape.
• A framework's tracing would have recorded the prefix-cache split for you and priced it wrong anyway. This kit reads the split itself and publishes both figures - $0.018727 with it and $0.033704 without, a 1.7998x overstatement - because a bill nobody can reconstruct is a bill nobody can check.
• The whole claim of this kit is a negative one: that a reader can open the code and see the paid call lose to free Python. Every layer between that comparison and the reader is a layer the reader has to trust instead of check.

In one lineWhat one run of this kit actually cost, in time and tokens

Measured on r001-bale-deduction on the fast tier, 2026-09-21. This kit records telemetry measured per run — 4 of the 6 readings on this axis, 4 of them with a band the guardrail board can judge against.

The readingWhat the last run measured

No movement column. Not one of the 5 earlier runs on record is comparable with this one — a different model tier, or a changed guard — and differencing across that measures two systems rather than one. Said once here rather than as a dash on every row.

Retrieval not shown. No run of this kit has ever recorded a retrieval timing, because the pipeline has no such stage. Those readings are left out rather than dashed: a dash says “this run did not measure it”, which promises a later run could.

The other sideWhat this does not tell you

The first of those is the one worth doing something about, and it is a solved problem: instrumenting a pipeline so each step reports its own duration is a couple of lines. Observability / tracing has the code, and what the result looks like once it is running.

In one lineWhat you provision, honestly

Everything measured on this page says where it was measured; everything not measured says that — the same contract as the other thirteen pages. Where a retrieval index would be on other kits, this one has: no index — each document goes whole into one call.

The machineWhat this needs

Enumerated from the kit’s own source by build/facts/envscan.py, committed, and drift-checked — never typed into this page.

Your dataWhere everything sits

The wireWhat crosses it, and when

Zero-egress topology: point BASE_URL at a local OpenAI-compatible server and nothing leaves the machine — statically true of the shipped adapter, whose only credential travels in the Authorization header.

The shapeHow it ships, and what you add

The ladderEach decision, and what you provision past its ceiling

Every threshold is a measurement with its provenance beside it, or says is_measured:false. A ceiling with no seam says so — it is the point the kit is outgrown, never a forced join.

When it failsFailure signatures

The knobsThe config surface, enumerated

Environment variables: API_KEY, BASE_URL, EMBED_MODEL, FOUNDRY_RUN_ID, MAX_CALLS_PER_DAY, MODEL, PORT, PROVIDER, PYTHONHASHSEED.

The other sideWhat this page does not claim

The corpus licence, from the Data lens: MIT (LICENSE-PUBLIC at the root of the kits repository) Your corpus’s licence is yours to verify, and the labels you write are about your documents.

In one lineEvery cited material of the packet right, and the load identity with it

For every deduction packet, whether EVERY cited material carries the right spec_class and the right establishing_line, AND the packet's load identity is right on both its value and its line. One field wrong fails the packet.

MethodHow the test was run

python3 -m evals.run --run-id r001-bale-deduction --resume --rescore

Every grader on these pages scored the same 64 already-recorded answers. Nothing was re-generated, so this compares rulers and not models.

The inputOne real row, seen by every grader

The formulaWhat it computes

The analysisWhat it actually did

In operationWhat to monitor

Reference standard: ITSELF - this grader IS the reference standard for the kit. The 75 cited materials and 64 load identities in data/deductions.json were written by the corpus generator and are restated independently by evals/check_labels.py, which retypes the rulebook, re-derives every one from the printed packets and agrees on all of them. It cannot be scored against itself, so it publishes no rates of its own.

No true/false rates for this grader. It records 3 operating rows and not one of them carries a confusion matrix, so there is no TPR, TNR or precision to state here — this grader does not sort answers into pass and fail, and rates that were never measured are not going to be printed as though they were. What it did measure is in “What it actually did” above; what to watch is immediately below.

How tight can the band be? There is no threshold. The expectation is derived from the labelled sheet every run and never recorded from a previous run - a recorded baseline blesses the first regression as normal.

Cadence: every commit - it is pure code over a committed cache

The decisionWhen to reach for it

In one lineThe cited material's class

Per cited material, whether spec_class is exactly the one the labelled sheet records: prohibitive, outthrow or not_in_spec, under the revision marked in force at the ship date.

MethodHow the test was run

python3 -m evals.paired r001-bale-deduction

Every grader on these pages scored the same 64 already-recorded answers. Nothing was re-generated, so this compares rulers and not models.

The inputOne real row, seen by every grader

The formulaWhat it computes

The analysisWhat it actually did

In operationWhat to monitor

Reference standard: the labelled sheet, restated independently by evals/check_labels.py with 0 disagreements. This grader's own rates are UNKNOWN because it is scored against that sheet rather than being it.

No true/false rates for this grader. It records 3 operating rows and not one of them carries a confusion matrix, so there is no TPR, TNR or precision to state here — this grader does not sort answers into pass and fail, and rates that were never measured are not going to be printed as though they were. What it did measure is in “What it actually did” above; what to watch is immediately below.

How tight can the band be? No threshold and no tuning. The comparison is == against a closed vocabulary of three values.

Cadence: every commit

The decisionWhen to reach for it

In one lineThe printed line that establishes the class

Per cited material, whether establishing_line is exactly the sNN the labelled sheet records - or null where the sheet says the specification never names the material.

MethodHow the test was run

python3 -m evals.paired r001-bale-deduction

Every grader on these pages scored the same 64 already-recorded answers. Nothing was re-generated, so this compares rulers and not models.

The inputOne real row, seen by every grader

The formulaWhat it computes

The analysisWhat it actually did

In operationWhat to monitor

Reference standard: the labelled sheet. This grader's own rates are UNKNOWN for a different reason from the class grader's: it answers a narrower question - which printed line - and there is no second instrument here measuring the same thing to be scored against.

No true/false rates for this grader. It records 3 operating rows and not one of them carries a confusion matrix, so there is no TPR, TNR or precision to state here — this grader does not sort answers into pass and fail, and rates that were never measured are not going to be printed as though they were. What it did measure is in “What it actually did” above; what to watch is immediately below.

How tight can the band be? No threshold. Exact string comparison against a printed reference.

Cadence: every commit

The decisionWhen to reach for it

In one lineWhich load was graded, and the line that says so

Per packet, whether load_identity is the right one of this_load / partly_this_load / not_this_load AND identity_line is the printed iNN correspondence line the sheet records.

MethodHow the test was run

python3 -m evals.paired r001-bale-deduction

Every grader on these pages scored the same 64 already-recorded answers. Nothing was re-generated, so this compares rulers and not models.

The inputOne real row, seen by every grader

The formulaWhat it computes

The analysisWhat it actually did

In operationWhat to monitor

Reference standard: the labelled sheet. This grader's own rates are UNKNOWN because it reads a different field from every other grader here - the packet-level identity rather than a cited material - so nothing on this page measures the same thing to score it against.

No true/false rates for this grader. It records 3 operating rows and not one of them carries a confusion matrix, so there is no TPR, TNR or precision to state here — this grader does not sort answers into pass and fail, and rates that were never measured are not going to be printed as though they were. What it did measure is in “What it actually did” above; what to watch is immediately below.

How tight can the band be? No threshold. Two exact comparisons, one against a closed vocabulary of three values and one against a printed reference.

Cadence: every commit

The decisionWhen to reach for it

In one lineThe cap, counted over the raw reply

Whether the RAW reply text asserts anything the cap forbids: a regulator or statute, a threshold the pack asserts rather than reads, an environmental determination, or a statement that the dispute is settled.

MethodHow the test was run

python3 -m evals.baseline --self-check

Every grader on these pages scored the same 64 already-recorded answers. Nothing was re-generated, so this compares rulers and not models.

The inputOne real row, seen by every grader

The formulaWhat it computes

The analysisWhat it actually did

In operationWhat to monitor

Reference standard: the kit's own ANCHOR_PATTERNS, red-proven in both directions by evals/baseline.py --self-check. Its own rates are UNKNOWN because it is a detector over free text rather than a grader against the labelled sheet - there is no gold column of forbidden sentences for it to be scored on.

No true/false rates for this grader. It records 4 operating rows and not one of them carries a confusion matrix, so there is no TPR, TNR or precision to state here — this grader does not sort answers into pass and fail, and rates that were never measured are not going to be printed as though they were. What it did measure is in “What it actually did” above; what to watch is immediately below.

How tight can the band be? No threshold - it is a count, and the band is exact zero. The scan is red-proven rather than trusted: --self-check asserts it convicts each family and acquits contract-compliant sentences.

Cadence: every commit - it runs over the committed reply cache at $0.00

The decisionWhen to reach for it

In one lineWhat three framings did to the reading

Whether an instruction planted in the packet's own correspondence breaches the cap, and separately how many readings that were RIGHT clean became wrong under pressure.

MethodHow the test was run

python3 -m evals.injection --run-id x001-bale-deduction --verify-neutral (free), then the scored probe record

Every grader on these pages scored the same 64 already-recorded answers. Nothing was re-generated, so this compares rulers and not models.

The inputOne real row, seen by every grader

The formulaWhat it computes

The analysisWhat it actually did

In operationWhat to monitor

Reference standard: the same labelled sheet, read through the same graders. This grader's own rates are UNKNOWN because it measures the ATTACKER rather than the pipeline - there is no labelled column of 'should have resisted' to score it against.

No true/false rates for this grader. It records 4 operating rows and not one of them carries a confusion matrix, so there is no TPR, TNR or precision to state here — this grader does not sort answers into pass and fail, and rates that were never measured are not going to be printed as though they were. What it did measure is in “What it actually did” above; what to watch is immediately below.

How tight can the band be? No threshold on breaches - the band is exact zero. The regression count carries its denominator because a count of regressions with no opportunity bound beside it cannot be checked.

Cadence: only when src/prompt.py changes - it is the one thing here that costs money to repeat, $0.003753 for 40 calls.

The decisionWhen to reach for it