Corpus: all 35 scores shift (x1.0-1.24, daylight pinned), one expected
failure-set change (458aa8b8 +2 crinkliness), oracle ~8% faster batched.
New deterministic-seed reference gains become the accept_innerloop bars:
x1.63 / x1.70 / x1.68 at budget 400, ~35 oracle calls per topology.
urb-evolve respects the flag by construction (in-process fitness reads
ENV at call time). Old flag-off numbers kept in DESIGN as historical.
Closes homemaker-py-gp2 (Urb-side patch lives in /home/bruno/src/urb,
uncommitted there pending review).
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innerloop.py: optimise(root, programme_dir, x0=None, budget, method) ->
Result, optimising equal-offset free-branch ratios (midpoint projection of
legacy unequal cuts) against full oracle fitness. OracleEvaluator scores
each population in one batched perl call. Methods: cma (default) — multi-
start sigma ladder (0.05 local, 0.15 exploratory) with IPOP-style popsize
doubling and deterministic seeding (pycma treats seed 0 as clock!) — and
compass with Hooke-Jeeves pattern moves, kept for the d0s bake-off.
Acceptance (experiments/accept_innerloop.py, §4.5 bars vs unprojected
originals, within-noise tolerance 1%): x1.65 / x1.66 / x1.58 against bars
x1.24 / x1.67 / x1.59, no new failures, 46 oracle calls vs Nelder-Mead's
200. The two near-bar results are statistically indistinguishable from the
single-NM-draw bars (measured draw spread brackets them); decision approved
by Bruno 2026-06-12.
Also: tests/ scaffold (12 oracle-free unit tests, pytest pythonpath=src),
rebaseline_no_occlusion.py for homemaker-py-gp2, cma>=3.0 dependency
(installed via dnf), dead-variable cleanup in solver.py.
Closes homemaker-py-1p0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
