the-mindscape-of-bro-tsong/reports/Round04_closeout_note_2026-06-18.md

Round 04 / 04.1 Closeout Note

Date: 2026-06-18

Closure Status

Round 04 / 04.1 can close.

Round 04 original blind routing evaluation report is preserved as the original first-run blind output and was not rewritten:

• reports/Round04_blind_routing_evaluation_report_2026-06-18.md

Round 04.1 is a selector rule patch plus post-patch verification. It is not a second blind test because expected labels existed for the reviewed target cases before the rerun.

Round 05 moves to selector calibration policy review. It should not continue Round 04.1 selector patching unless Owner / CCRA explicitly approves a new Round 05.1 patch.

Round 04.1 Targeted Fixes

Round 04.1 targeted four reviewed cases:

• R04-BI-002: translation payload incorrectly triggered QPI.
• R04-BI-024: "do not enter Intellectual Archaeology" did not hard-exclude IA.
• R04-BI-035: "do not analyze deeply" plus dominant scarcity judgment was hard no-call.
• R04-BI-036: "do not expand" plus information / path / consensus scarcity judgment was hard no-call.

Post-patch verification result:

• Targeted cases checked: 4
• Targeted failures: 0
• R04-BI-002: PASS
• R04-BI-024: PASS
• R04-BI-035: PASS
• R04-BI-036: PASS

Primary evidence:

• reports/Round04_1_post_patch_routing_verification_report_2026-06-18.md
• ccra_review_bundle/round-04.1_2026-06-18_selector-rule-patch/04_REGRESSION_AND_COMMAND_LOG_04.1.md

Lifecycle Boundary

Round 04 / 04.1 does not constitute model stability upgrade evidence.

Current model lifecycle state remains:

Model	status	stability_level	regression_status
QPI	draft	B	pending
Intellectual Archaeology	draft	B	pending

Do not upgrade QPI or Intellectual Archaeology from this closeout.

Do not introduce:

• LLM selector
• third model
• RAG
• vector database
• frontend
• backend
• new product module

R04-BI-022 Accepted Collateral Behavior Change

R04-BI-022 is recorded as an accepted collateral behavior change.

Original Round 04 result:

• selected models: none
• result: hard no-call

After Round 04.1 patch:

• selected models: qpi
• rejected models: intellectual_archaeology
• result: QPI selected, IA rejected

Closeout judgment:

• This is a reasonable linked change from the depth-limiting QPI override.
• It is not a new failure.
• The user rejects deep IA-style expansion, but still asks for a lightweight dominant scarcity judgment.
• IA remains rejected.
• QPI selection is acceptable as a lightweight selector gate behavior.

Current repository state:

• R04-BI-022 is already represented in QPI regression as case_qpi_round04_depth_limited_assumption_scarcity_001.
• Round 05 should discuss whether this case should remain regression, also enter calibration discussion, or be treated as a calibration-only candidate in future policy review.
• Do not open a new patch round only for R04-BI-022.

Round 05 Transition

Round 05 topic:

Round 05: Selector Calibration Policy Review

Round 05 should decide calibration policy before any further rule patch. Candidate questions include governance / responsibility / consensus recall, capacity / resource / path no-call boundaries, likely Intellectual Archaeology natural-language routing, QPI-first versus IA-only behavior after a user states "QPI already judged...", ambiguous low-context handling, behavior diff tooling, and the long-term status of R04-BI-022.