{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp03_full320_20260801","cell_id":"negative_space_design__information_theory","trajectory_id":"R","attempt_index":0,"candidate_sha256":"fdee076ae20797d2db41b9d11a4fb41af484c64d575bf41cb5ed11c0ba069137","gates":{"G1":{"status":"PASS","reason":"Silent propagation after boundary loss is an independently recognizable coding problem, not a restatement of the design archetype."},"G2":{"status":"PASS","reason":"Deliberately unassigned code regions function as bounded, protected absences whose relationship to valid codewords can expose shifted decoding."},"G3":{"status":"PASS","reason":"The proposed reserve can causally shorten silent propagation if shifted traversals encounter invalid states earlier; the candidate correctly treats that link as a testable hypothesis."},"G4":{"status":"PASS","reason":"All archetype components receive domain realizations, the core mechanism carries the causal work, and supporting mechanisms are separated from rejected or incompatible ones."},"G5":{"status":"PASS","reason":"Inferential and hypothetical claims are labeled, prior art is declared unsearched, and the candidate makes no unsupported novelty or empirical-performance claim."},"G6":{"status":"PASS","reason":"The problem falsifier tests whether existing controls already eliminate the failure, while the intervention falsifier separately tests whether reserved space improves detection under comparable conditions."},"G7":{"status":"PASS","reason":"Authority is limited to versioned offline experimentation, deployment exclusions are explicit, affected parties are identified, and rollback preserves the baseline and diagnostic traces."}},"scores":{"structural_fit":{"score":4,"reason":"Protected absence is the operative intervention rather than a decorative metaphor, with explicit boundaries, positive-form relations, interpretation, and recoverability."},"domain_fidelity":{"score":3,"reason":"The proposal uses variable-length codebooks, decoder states, rate costs, synchronization, and integrity checks coherently, though no formal code construction is supplied."},"causal_plausibility":{"score":3,"reason":"The causal sequence from boundary edit through shifted traversal to an invalid state is credible but remains dependent on codebook geometry and the declared error model."},"component_translation":{"score":3,"reason":"The translation is comprehensive and role-specific, although the pacing-zone realization depends partly on an added checkpoint convention rather than reserved code space alone."},"adversarial_survival":{"score":3,"reason":"The candidate identifies unreachable reserves, rival checksums or markers, rate loss, version disagreement, and analogy failure as genuine threats."},"reframing_gain":{"score":3,"reason":"Treating unused code space as a protected detection resource offers a productive alternative to viewing all unassigned capacity as waste."},"practicality_testability":{"score":3,"reason":"The offline comparison, bounded edit enumeration, observable outcomes, halt conditions, and rollback are actionable, though construction choices and decision thresholds remain to be preregistered."},"expected_value_risk":{"score":3,"reason":"Potential integrity gains are balanced against rate, latency, complexity, compatibility, and recovery risks, with a low-authority reversible first test."},"novelty_evidence":{"score":0,"reason":"Prior-art status is explicitly unsearched, so novelty credit is not supportable from the closed-book packet."}},"weighted_total":76.25,"disposition":"DEEP_RESEARCH","fabrication_findings":[],"weak_dimensions":["novelty_evidence"],"actionable_critique":[{"priority":"MEDIUM","issue":"The reserved-space construction is not formalized enough to establish which shifted traversals can reach an invalid state.","repair":"Before deeper research, specify the code-tree constraints, source distribution, bounded edit model, and reachability analysis used to generate the experimental codebook.","evidence_boundary":"This is an operational strengthening request; the present candidate appropriately labels the detection effect as hypothetical."},{"priority":"MEDIUM","issue":"The comparison names relevant outcomes but leaves the material-effect and acceptable-rate-loss thresholds unspecified.","repair":"Preregister decision thresholds and apply them consistently to the dense baseline, reserved-space design, and synchronization or checksum rival.","evidence_boundary":"No empirical superiority is established by the packet; the proposed experiment is what would supply that evidence."}],"repairs":[],"improvement_attribution":{"kind":"NONE","reason":"This is the original attempt, with no prior problem, causal lever, or registered repair against which improvement can be attributed."},"trajectory_replacement":false,"arm_guess":"MECHANISM_PACKET","recommendation":"SUCCESS","tester_summary":"The candidate clears every reject-first gate and meets the success criteria. Its central analogy is structurally operative, domain-coherent, explicitly falsifiable, and safely testable; novelty remains deliberately unevidenced."}