Turn 4 coordination

Before dispatch

Question: Investment: for the inspected provenance case, what is the smallest informative comparison of extra case explanation against current procedure, a competent concise correction and ordinary records? What outcome would justify further investment rather than correcting the baseline? Relate this marginal decision to competition or reinforcement among user work, methodology and automation, while keeping clear that a narrow packaging test cannot settle the broad bootstrap purpose. Propose, do not run, a bounded comparison; no general controller build.

Investment rationale: The previous conceptual distinctions should now constrain an actual investment decision and a discriminating, affordable comparison rather than create more machinery.

Operator intervention after turn 1: run all five turns without stopping. No substantive answer to the turn-1 purpose question is presumed. Use preceding integrations to reframe this starting direction when warranted. No response gate this turn.

Assignments

Sequential fresh workers: Explorer A (Complementarities and task choice: derive a bounded comparison that could identify when methodological investment improves useful work.), Explorer B (Strong simpler rival and opportunity cost: challenge whether the proposed investment or comparison can earn its expense and isolate what decision it informs.), critic, integrator. Each owns its corresponding Markdown file here. Explorers cannot read current-turn peer outputs or coordination/results; both may read preceding integrations. Conceptual roles inherit gpt-6-astra; Sol is reserved for bulk/simple retrieval, which is not separately commissioned. Explorer budgets: depth 2, workers 2. Others: zero.

Coordinator review: four workers completed. Retain the two-condition comparison as a proposal, not an authorized experiment. The integrator narrowed A's three-condition design and retained its successful-finalization trap; no advantage has been measured. Turn 5 will evaluate those actual changes and procedure costs, not assume the final proposal was inevitable. Measured execution costs are now retained in ../costs-before-turn-05.md.

Raw returned session/audit paths and outcomes are retained in each coordinator-owned *-result.txt before the next launch. No nested jobs except bounded source ingests under the commission.