{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp11_mechanism_context_external20_20260804","cell_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__systems_cybernetics","judge_id":"J1","item_assessments":[{"opaque_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__systems_cybernetics__A","supported_problem":3,"external_distinctiveness":3,"testability":4,"researchability":4,"evidence_quality":4,"fatal_issue":null},{"opaque_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__systems_cybernetics__C","supported_problem":4,"external_distinctiveness":3,"testability":4,"researchability":3,"evidence_quality":4,"fatal_issue":null},{"opaque_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__systems_cybernetics__B","supported_problem":3,"external_distinctiveness":2,"testability":3,"researchability":4,"evidence_quality":3,"fatal_issue":null}],"pairwise_comparisons":[{"pair_id":"A_vs_C","left_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__systems_cybernetics__A","right_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__systems_cybernetics__C","preference":"RIGHT","confidence":"MODERATE","rationale":"C has stronger direct external support for the underlying persistence hazard from official control-system change guidance and tests a meaningful behavioral contrast against both the active stack and age-only expiry. A offers a cleaner and easier offline eligibility audit, but its core lifecycle-gating lever lies closer to documented registry, asset-retirement, and dependency-aware archival practice. C's separate-attribution requirement is a feasibility risk, but its bounded replay can falsify that requirement before live action."},{"pair_id":"A_vs_B","left_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__systems_cybernetics__A","right_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__systems_cybernetics__B","preference":"LEFT","confidence":"HIGH","rationale":"A states sharper denominators, thresholds, reviewer conditions, dependency-loss criteria, and an identical-event comparison. B's substrate and eligibility lever overlap closely with longstanding multiple-model adaptive and supervisory switching control, while evidence that superseded artifacts remain callable and harmful is especially indirect. B remains researchable, but its incremental lifecycle package is less externally distinctive and its outcome criteria are less tightly operationalized."},{"pair_id":"C_vs_B","left_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__systems_cybernetics__C","right_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__systems_cybernetics__B","preference":"LEFT","confidence":"HIGH","rationale":"C is grounded in official evidence that temporary control changes can persist and cause serious harm, and it supplies a three-arm, reversible replay with explicit safety, noninferiority, restoration, and improvement falsifiers. B faces closer problem-and-lever prior art in supervisory model-bank selection and has weaker direct evidence for its proposed stale-memory failure mode. C's identification and local-linearization limits reduce feasibility but are explicitly testable rather than fatal."}],"overall_top_choice":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__systems_cybernetics__C","overall_rationale":"C is the strongest candidate after scrutiny because the underlying control-change persistence problem has the most direct external support, the remaining claim concerns measurable plant-response and interpretability consequences rather than lifecycle bookkeeping alone, and the offline three-arm protocol provides a real falsifier with reversible safety gates. Its novelty is bounded: management of temporary changes and Simplex-style authority switching are substantial adjacent prior art. The worthwhile research increment is whether overlay-specific lifecycle gating with dependency and restoration checks outperforms both continued authority and age-only expiry without degrading control outcomes.","blinding_limitations":"Assessment used only the supplied preserved records and external-evaluation summaries. Treatment identity and earlier outcomes were not inferred. Public-web evidence cannot establish world novelty or undocumented industrial practice, and the proposals' heterogeneous scopes make numerical scores approximate rather than interval-scaled."}