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* Repackaged local command paths and removed operator attribution to keep
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* Rebuilt site references from their sources without changing any prompt,
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Trolley bench v2: deviations from the frozen analysis plan

The analysis content of ANALYSIS-PLAN-v2.md is unchanged; every departure from it is listed here, dated, with its reason. Its original frozen sha256 is a08e10df1dcca80cf379f7d74c6a4ff97a989d9ffe2027aeb1a6cb065a511b8f; the publication-only comment removal below changes the file's checksum, not its analysis rules.

2026-10-08: a 14th model, GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI's Decisions API)

  • What changed: the plan names 13 models; GPT-6 Luna, the only model on OpenAI's Decisions API (public beta from 2026-10-06), was added after the 13-model panel had run and been reported.
  • What did not change: the cells, every analysis script and every rule. analysis/v2_stats.py and analysis/v2_panel.py ran unmodified (their sha256s still match the plan's list), and GPT-6 Luna's numbers come from exactly the definitions the plan fixed before any of its answers existed, so for it nothing is exploratory.
  • Passes: three, as for Jev, the other hosted model; they turned out identical to the last digit, so one pass would have given the same numbers.
  • Question form: the Decisions API has no yes/no question with criteria, so each question is a two-option choice (yes/no) with the cell's own text, as REPRODUCE-v2.md section 5 describes; this is the one place its requests differ in shape from the other 13 models'.
  • The Holm family grew from 52 to 56 tests. Every finding among the first 13 models kept its status (15 findings before; the same 15 plus GPT-6 Luna's one after), checked by comparing results/v2/panel-13-models.json, the panel as it stood before the addition, with the new results/v2/panel.json.
  • Ranks: GPT-6 Luna takes a place in each ranked check (9th on dominated choices, 1st on contradictions, 2nd on wording spread), which moves some other models down one place; no two models swapped order.

2026-10-14: repository packaging and reproduction protocol

At packaging, the frozen plan, full v2 cells, format classification and v2 statistics/panel scripts remained unchanged. No original answer was edited and no model was rerun.

  • models.yaml is regenerated from the committed verification receipts and runtime provenance, retaining the published v1 SHA-256 correction and adding Luna's hosted model name/date. Its checksum differs from the 13-model manifest frozen with the plan; OpenAI provides no immutable Luna weights revision.
  • run/v2/fetch_weights.py now reads both the old scalar hash representation and the generated {sha256, xet_hash} representation. This changes its frozen checksum, not its pinned-file or byte-verification rule.
  • Runtime recipes support the frozen reproduction sample, and the shared recipe builds the verified offline tree listings for Nimble, Kev and SemIf automatically. run/drive.py retains the published v1 credential-safe environment provenance correction while adding v2 support.
  • The independent rerun uses the separately registered sample and agreement criteria in REPRODUCE-SAMPLE-v2.md. Its sample design uses the existing results, and therefore is not an additional prospective benchmark analysis or an independent replication.
  • The site publishes factual explorers without the article draft or editorial notes. Its v1-cell explorer and v2 statistics page are identified separately.

2026-10-14: publication-marker cleanup

Only the obsolete publication-status HTML comment was removed from ANALYSIS-PLAN-v2.md; all other bytes are unchanged. Its publication-copy sha256 is 935d9fc16befe7cf7619e36d4ffe1202eace8b23dd6ce3e08fb594d3eae4eb3a. The original frozen copy is available at commit 462aaf404e5a19f03dd39dce26f9397acc647a91; git show 462aaf404e5a19f03dd39dce26f9397acc647a91:ANALYSIS-PLAN-v2.md | shasum -a 256 verifies its original checksum above.

Operator attribution was removed from comments and the Luna-addition note without changing their technical content. Recorded machine-specific server_command paths were repackaged with the existing <scratch> placeholder; command suffixes, measurements, answers, timestamps, weight pins and hashes are unchanged. The human-reference source label and site template no longer point at an unavailable local research report; the survey citations and values are unchanged. The site outputs were rebuilt from those sources without any model calls.