conn_grade ON vs OFF (qpk protocol, experiments/run_qi6_ab.sh): harbor-house
(budget 2500, seeds 1-3) byte-identical output in every seed — the secondary
comparator key never fired. programme-house (budget 3000, seeds 1-5) 3/5 seeds
tie exactly; seeds 1/2 diverge to a different topology but the fail delta is
adjacency/crinkliness/width/access/size, never connectivity. Zero of 4 cases
where a not-connected fail was present got cleared by the grade.
Mechanism (b)/(c) (graded proximity as tertiary comparator key) is falsified,
not just unconfirmed. Kept default OFF (already was). Closed qi6; filed
homemaker-py-8sh for the remaining candidate (mechanism (a): an explicit
insert/relocate-circulation operator that doesn't depend on the search
stumbling onto a fail-count tie).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GDZjAATDWW1xFfc7xnJqSt