AGENTS.md: counter single-route termination and early handoff - #181
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Agents were ending runs on the first decisive-looking result, PRing early, and rerunning existing machinery instead of forming new concepts. Consolidated fixes into existing contract language: - Decisive-verdict bullet: a route verdict is not a question verdict; blocked/no-go requires the continuation ladder executed in-run; names single-route termination as the mirror image of recursive claim weakening. - Candidate-first workflow: mid-attempt candidate registration is normal; preregistration constrains selection, never generation; a failed candidate obligates a new concept derived from the failure mechanism, not parameter perturbation. - Continuation after failure: attempts record routes considered/tried/ remaining; classification is not the deliverable — execute the repair or replacement in the same run; reuse-search and new-concept generation run in parallel, reuse is not a ceiling on novelty. - Harvest/handoff: a harvest PR is a checkpoint, not a terminal state; handoff only at an exhausted route frontier or named external blocker, with untried routes listed. - Validation: minimality governs re-validation, not scientific search. Includes a whitespace-only reflow of the recursive-claim-weakening paragraph. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixes #180
Agents were ending runs on the first decisive-looking result, PRing early, and rerunning existing machinery instead of forming new concepts. This amends the contract language, consolidating into existing sentences per the self-improvement rule:
blocked/no-gorequires the continuation ladder executed in-run; names single-route termination as the mirror image of recursive claim weakening.Includes a whitespace-only reflow of the recursive-claim-weakening paragraph.
Validation receipt: base 67fcf0d, head 0ccfc08; process-document-only change per contract —
git diff --checkclean; GitNexusdetect_changes(unstaged, at authoring boundary): 6 AGENTS.md documentation sections touched, 0 affected processes, risk low.Self-merge override: the repository owner directed landing this on main ("push it to main"); recording that authorization here per the contract. Not a scientific claim promotion — no claim review applies.
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