{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp03_full320_20260801","cell_id":"negative_space_design__agricultural_science","trajectory_id":"R","attempt_index":0,"candidate_sha256":"0141053b68cad45073e3cfce6bd6304d24d681a13a418cd7dc632579bb24650c","gates":{"G1":{"status":"PASS","reason":"The agronomic problem is independently observable through crossover, gradients, neighboring-treatment dependence, and impaired attribution without relying on the source analogy."},"G2":{"status":"PASS","reason":"The proposal preserves deliberate omission, a protected bounded region, clarification of the remaining positive form, pathway-specific competition mapping, recoverability, and an audience-observable effect test."},"G3":{"status":"PASS","reason":"The intervention acts on the stated problem by increasing physical separation, diagnosing the transition zone, and excluding the most exposed observations from primary inference while directly measuring whether crossover declines."},"G4":{"status":"PASS","reason":"All archetype components receive domain realizations, and the load-bearing and supporting mechanisms retain boundary protection, omission discipline, context preservation, and recoverability. The pacing component is stretched but explicitly bounded as a spatial interruption rather than human rest."},"G5":{"status":"PASS","reason":"Empirical effects are consistently bounded as hypotheses or inferences, prior art is explicitly unsearched, no citations or field results are invented, and the proposal specifies measurements needed to resolve uncertainty."},"G6":{"status":"PASS","reason":"The problem falsifier can show that meaningful adjacent-plot interference is absent, while the intervention falsifier separately allows interference to exist but the buffer strategy to fail against both ordinary adjacency and the statistical rival."},"G7":{"status":"PASS","reason":"Authority is limited by landholder, institutional, and regulated-input controls; the trial uses approved treatments; affected parties and ecological risks are named; and explicit halt and rollback conditions protect safety, access, and land."}},"scores":{"structural_fit":{"score":4,"reason":"Protected absence is the active organizing element rather than a decorative metaphor, with clear boundaries, a positive-form relationship, and direct effect tests."},"domain_fidelity":{"score":4,"reason":"The proposal uses agronomically meaningful substrates, interference pathways, field-design practices, inferential consequences, and operational hazards."},"causal_plausibility":{"score":3,"reason":"Separation and core-only inference plausibly reduce boundary contamination, but effectiveness remains pathway-, width-, crop-, and site-dependent, and the buffer can create new edge effects."},"component_translation":{"score":3,"reason":"The component set is unusually complete and operationally translated, though the rest-and-pacing interpretation is semantically strained and several components function mainly as safeguards."},"adversarial_survival":{"score":4,"reason":"The candidate confronts land and precision costs, active-buffer effects, long-range transport, selective exclusion, and a credible statistical rival with discriminating measurements."},"reframing_gain":{"score":3,"reason":"Treating unassigned field area as a protected experimental structure integrates isolation, diagnostics, and interpretability, although agronomic buffer concepts themselves may already be familiar."},"practicality_testability":{"score":3,"reason":"A bounded randomized field comparison with tracers, gradients, yield, precision, and hazard monitoring is executable, but requires substantial land, layout control, and pathway-specific calibration."},"expected_value_risk":{"score":3,"reason":"Potential gains in causal attribution are meaningful and the trial is reversible, while land loss and induced ecological or microclimatic effects remain material costs."},"novelty_evidence":{"score":0,"reason":"Prior art is explicitly unsearched, so no novelty claim is supported in the closed-book record."}},"weighted_total":82.5,"disposition":"DEEP_RESEARCH","fabrication_findings":[],"weak_dimensions":["novelty_evidence"],"actionable_critique":[{"priority":"MEDIUM","issue":"The protected band is not yet parameterized by transport pathway, and a biologically active band may substitute new edge effects for the original interference.","repair":"Before field deployment, prespecify pathway-linked band composition and width candidates, diagnostics for induced microclimate and biotic effects, and criteria for selecting among them.","evidence_boundary":"The packet supports this only as a testable design requirement; it contains no field evidence establishing an effective band specification."},{"priority":"MEDIUM","issue":"Novelty relative to established buffer-row, guard-row, isolation-distance, and spatial-design practices is unknown.","repair":"Conduct a targeted prior-art review that separates familiar agronomic buffering from any distinct contribution made by protected absence, diagnostic transition zones, and recoverable border observations.","evidence_boundary":"The candidate explicitly records prior art as unsearched, so novelty must remain unresolved."}],"repairs":[],"improvement_attribution":{"kind":"NONE","reason":"This is the original attempt with no prior problem or causal-lever revision to which improvement could be attributed; remaining uncertainty is empirical and novelty-related rather than a documented change effect."},"trajectory_replacement":false,"arm_guess":"MECHANISM_PACKET","recommendation":"SUCCESS","tester_summary":"The candidate is a structurally faithful and domain-coherent transfer with a plausible, falsifiable causal chain, complete safeguards, and unusually strong adversarial testing. It qualifies for success as a candidate design while remaining explicitly hypothesis-stage and requiring field validation and prior-art research."}