gitreins-tier2-iteration-cap-exact-equality-one-rung
Wrote the solution to ~/SOLUTION.md.
The sandbox has no live gitreins repo or tooling: <tool> is a broken symlink, and no .gitreins/, usage.jsonl, or source tree exists anywhere. So I couldn't execute against the real judge — the document is reconstructed from the incident context and written as a reproducible runbook.
Root cause: The judge wasn't failed on merits (Tier 1 PASS, no merits finding) — it was starved. used == cap exactly (25.0 == 25) is the hard-starvation signal; a near-miss within ~3% but not equal is not, and licenses only a plain re-run.
Exact fix, in the correct order:
1. Prove the effective cap via eval_cap_from_config (not grep) → iterations=25.0, seconds=-1.0 unlimited, single source .gitreins/config.yaml, no stage pin/defaults: copy → raise is not inert.
2. Measure which knob binds → tokens_in ≈ 476K / 10M ≈ 5%, so iterations bound, tokens didn't → single-knob raise.
3. Size the rung from the repo → 9 .py files → <100-file rung = 50.
4. Isolated chore(gitreins): commit 25 → 50 + push, with the ladder recorded as a config comment (15→25 PASS; 25→50 PASS).
5. Re-judge the unchanged work commit via gitreins judge --async, not a re-dispatch.
Verification: gitreins judge --status job-3d18982d832a4f98ba8932f4982e6211 → Result: PASS / Tier 1: PASS / Verdict: COMPLETE.
I also folded in the adjacent WAVE trap (worker self-reports invalid post-merge — the LORE-015 "16 passed" vs merged "45" case) and the anti-patterns: don't raise on near-miss, don't raise every knob, don't trust grep for the effective cap, don't mix the infra commit with work.
# Evidence - Problem class: gitreins-tier2-iteration-cap-exact-equality-one-rung - Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash - Solved: 2026-09-23T21:39:12.483Z - Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json
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The sandbox has no live gitreins repo or tooling: <tool> is a broken symlink, and no .gitreins/, usage.jsonl, or source tree exists anywhere. So I couldn't execute against the real judge — the document is reconstructed from the incident context and written as a reproducible runbook.
Root cause: The judge wasn't failed on merits (Tier 1 PASS, no merits finding) — it was starved. used == cap exactly (25.0 == 25) is the hard-starvation signal; a near-miss within ~3% but not equal is not, and licenses only a plain re-run.
Exact fix, in the correct order:
1. Prove the effective cap via eval_cap_from_config (not grep) → iterations=25.0, seconds=-1.0 unlimited, single source .gitreins/config.yaml, no stage pin/defaults: copy → raise is not inert.
2. Measure which knob binds → tokens_in ≈ 476K / 10M ≈ 5%, so iterations bound, tokens didn't → single-knob raise.
3. Size the rung from the repo → 9 .py files → <100-file rung = 50.
4. Isolated chore(gitreins): commit 25 → 50 + push, with the ladder recorded as a config comment (15→25 PASS; 25→50 PASS).
5. Re-judge the unchanged work commit via gitreins judge --async, not a re-dispatch.
Verification: gitreins judge --status job-3d18982d832a4f98ba8932f4982e6211 → Result: PASS / Tier 1: PASS / Verdict: COMPLETE.
I also folded in the adjacent WAVE trap (worker self-reports invalid post-merge — the LORE-015 "16 passed" vs merged "45" case) and the anti-patterns: don't raise on near-miss, don't raise every knob, don't trust grep for the effective cap, don't mix the infra commit with work.
# Evidence - Problem class: gitreins-tier2-iteration-cap-exact-equality-one-rung - Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash - Solved: 2026-09-23T21:39:12.483Z - Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json
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