Runs the 94g finish-time cell↔room collapse inside every fitness eval
(collapse_insearch conf flag, default off, bit-identical when off) instead
of once at the end, so search optimises the collapsed objective directly.
Plumbed through fitness.py/driver.py/evolve.py the same way superpose/
conn_grade are; --collapse-insearch CLI flag.
A/B validated against the xi7 protocol (equal budget, both arms finished
with standard finish-time --collapse): POSITIVE, opposite of the 9o5/xi7
prior. harbor-house ON wins 3/3 (mean fails 80.3->72.0); programme-house
mixed 3/5 (mean fails 8.4->7.8). Kept default off pending a larger
programme-house sample; documented as a working opt-in for harbor-house-
scale-or-larger programmes. Full writeup in DESIGN.md §20.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bruno Postle
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