the combiner ยท operational
One promote/skip decision over the three probes. A tunable knob vetoes. Not a fourth axis โ it measures nothing itself. Three probes, one gate.
1. parameterless (static, FREE โ no ClickHouse) โโ FAIL โโถ STOP (tunable-knob veto)
โ PASS
2. agnostic (static no-dispatch + oracle) โโ FAIL โโถ STOP
โ PASS / PENDING
3. orthogonal (full bigblack grid, EXPENSIVE) โโ consulted only now
โ
โถ promote = parameterless.PASS AND agnostic.PASS AND orthogonal.PASSmin_regime_pass_rate) AND campaign/spike per-cell records via campaign_summary_adapter.py (worst-valid-cell over โฯโ + panel-Rยฒ + h_norm, stored labels re-derived from the raw numbers โ zero disagreements on the 2026-05-27 spike). The earlier PENDING was a dialect gap, not an evidence gap. Correction (same day, operator-caught): the first adapter version SKIPPED the cross-candidate (sibling/Finish) records and briefly showed PROMOTE for deferred candidates โ the sibling stage is now mandatory, with asymmetric demotion (promoted features won their disposition; deferred siblings are demoted by links to them).| candidate impl | param | agnostic | orthogonal | decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
bar_petrosian_fd ยท bar_katz_fd (in production, #509) | PASS | PASS | PASS | PROMOTE โ matches the real disposition (208 cells ร 7 epochs; siblings resolved in their favor) |
bar_svd_entropy | PASS | PASS | FAIL | BLOCKED โ sibling stage: โฯโ 0.9745 vs bar_petrosian_fd (now in panel) โ the deferral reason, mechanically reproduced |
bar_hjorth_mobility / _complexity | PASS | PASS | FAIL | BLOCKED โ mutual duplicates (โฯโ 0.9985) + 0.92โ0.93 vs katz (now in panel) |
add_antropy (hardcoded order=3) | FAIL | SKIPPED | SKIPPED | BLOCKED โ tunable knob vetoes |
antropy.higuchi_fd (hidden kmax=10 default) | FAIL | SKIPPED | SKIPPED | BLOCKED โ introspection teeth-check (hidden library default caught) |
| verdict | strength | why |
|---|---|---|
| BLOCKED | very strong | every blocking path is a hard citable fact (a literal at file:line, a dispatch branch, a ฯ>0.95 partner) |
| PENDING | by design | names EXACTLY which evidence is still owed โ never inflates confidence |
| PROMOTE | strong, conditional | "passed everything we can currently measure" โ known soft spots (orthogonality S4 circularity, agnostic oracle coverage) are surfaced, not hidden |
Design rationale: PROBE-ARCHITECTURE.md