Completion and scope checks

All five turns completed on 2026-11-06, without between-turn response gates. Twenty fresh project-scoped workers ran sequentially; the coordinator replanned at each boundary. Per-worker returns retain session and execution-record paths. Each role reported successful validation of its own result. Coordinator verification is recorded below.

Retained result

The final integration is the evidence-bearing disposition, not an adopted system change. The final costs complete the sixteen-worker pre-final accounting supplied to final-turn roles. No comparative experiment or whole-KB compression measurement was performed. The broader literature search remains incomplete.

Authorized changes

  • New research, assignments, coordination, returned session references and costs in this run directory.
  • Workshop-index entry and status wording in kb/work/README.md, preserving unrelated incumbent edits.
  • Eleven verbatim source excerpts added only within the Quotes section of kb/sources/schmidhuber-formal-theory-creativity.ingest.md, through the grounding workflow. Worker validation passed; coordinator diff review confirmed no changes outside Quotes.

The first trial's files were not edited. The unrelated source ingest present at start was not edited. No code, implementation, experiments, extraction, commits or deletion occurred. No operator intervention followed the authorization to complete all five turns. Coordinator scheduling and narrowing decisions remain part of the causal history, so this is not autonomous-steering evidence.

Coordinator verification

Coordinator ran:

  • commonplace-validate kb/work/open-ended-work-economics/curiosity-exploration: VALIDATION SUCCESS; 49 text files; 0 failures, 0 warnings.
  • commonplace-validate kb/sources/schmidhuber-formal-theory-creativity.ingest.md: VALIDATION SUCCESS; 1 file; 0 failures, 0 warnings.
  • commonplace-validate kb/work/README.md: VALIDATION SUCCESS; 1 text file; 0 failures, 0 warnings.
  • git diff --check: passed.
  • Final status and source/index diffs reviewed. Pre-existing unrelated index changes remain; the untracked unrelated source remains untouched. No first-trial file is changed.

The validator covers Markdown artifacts, not the JSON-encoded tool-return strings. Their twenty execution records were read to produce final cost accounting. No pytest was run: these are Markdown-only research changes.