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# A/B methodology & attribution — recipes (crewrift tier)

On-demand recipes (1). Trigger→action heuristics; pull the relevant one when its situation arises.

#### 1. Match episode comparability conditions; use pickup VOR, all-identical meetings, and same-role twins as cheap signals
`crewrift` · ⚠ _session-derived, unverified_ · tool: `cogames pickup`

When comparing crewrift episodes for the same crewborg policy, only compare episodes sharing the same policy id, same game id, and maxTicks >= 2000 — short episodes (maxTicks=400) score very differently (partial task counts, no kill windows) and contaminate the comparison. Use `cogames pickup` against a `--pool` of policies to get a relative value-over-replacement (VOR) number rather than plain scrimmage when you want relative strength. To judge meeting/social-deduction quality (chat + vote dynamics), use an all-agents-identical setup since meeting dynamics only emerge when all participants share the loop. And running two copies of the same policy in the SAME role within one match gives a free built-in A/B of which behaviors are robust vs luck-dependent: two imposters of one policy diverged sharply (0 kills+ejected vs 3 kills+survived) purely from spawn position, cheaply revealing robustness without separate matches.
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