# Overnight Results — Session 77+ (2026-03-07/08)

## Summary

Four parallel study tracks completed overnight. Total runtime: ~6.5 hours. Total API cost: ~$5-8.

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## 1. COLLABORATION BCB — Stacking Proof

**Hypothesis:** Compressed project identity brief + CLAUDE.md > either alone.
**Result: STACKING WORKS.**

| Condition | Correct | Accuracy | Avg Score |
|-----------|---------|----------|-----------|
| C1: Bare model | 3/20 | **15%** | 37.2 |
| C2: CLAUDE.md only | 14/20 | **70%** | 83.1 |
| C3: Brief only | 6/20 | **30%** | 50.8 |
| C4: CLAUDE.md + Brief | 16/20 | **80%** | 86.7 |

**Key findings:**
- **C4 > C2 > C3 > C1** — stacking confirmed. Brief adds +10% over CLAUDE.md alone.
- **CLAUDE.md dominates for operational tasks** (DO NOT rules, architecture) — 100% accuracy on DO NOT category.
- **Brief adds value on philosophy and novel situations** — where behavioral patterns matter more than operational rules.
- **Brief alone (30%) is weaker than CLAUDE.md (70%)** — the brief captures behavioral identity but misses operational specifics. This makes sense: CLAUDE.md is handcrafted for collaboration, the brief is pipeline-generated from project docs.
- **Stacking delta: +10% accuracy, +3.6 avg score** — the brief genuinely adds information CLAUDE.md doesn't have.

**Verdict:** The identity layer adds measurable value on top of operational documentation. Not a replacement, but a genuine enhancement — exactly the stacking thesis.

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## 2. VOICE & FRAMING ABLATION

**Hypothesis:** Different brief structures/voices produce different quality from the same facts.
**Result: Annotated guide wins.**

| Rank | Voice | Composite | M1 (Coverage) | M3 (Patterns) | Chars |
|------|-------|-----------|---------------|----------------|-------|
| 1 | **E: Annotated guide** | **25.9** | 0.213 | **4.6** | 2,851 |
| 2 | C: Pure directive | 22.7 | 0.183 | 3.5 | 2,587 |
| 3 | D: Pure narrative | 21.9 | 0.204 | 2.2 | 2,252 |
| 4 | B: CORE-dominant | 21.3 | **0.223** | 1.6 | 2,466 |
| 5 | A: Production baseline | 21.3 | 0.198 | 2.0 | **9,144** |

**Key findings:**
- **Annotated guide (+4.6 over baseline)** — section headers + "when X, do Y" format produces the highest pattern density AND coverage. This validates the developer's instinct about CORE voice.
- **CORE-dominant has highest coverage (0.223)** but lowest pattern density (1.6) — good at semantic coverage, but doesn't structure it as actionable patterns.
- **Production baseline (9,144 chars) scores same as CORE-dominant (2,466 chars)** — 73% fewer tokens, same composite. The production brief is 3.7x longer for zero benefit.
- **Pure directive has high pattern density (3.5)** but lowest coverage (0.183) — all instructions, misses context.
- **The winning format combines CORE's operational voice WITH explicit headers AND trigger→behavior patterns** (annotated guide).

**Implication for D-075:** Rewrite compose step to use annotated guide format. CORE voice as dominant, with ANCHORS woven in as context and PREDICTIONS as explicit when/do patterns under headers.

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## 3. PREDICATE & FACT TYPE QUALITY ABLATION

**Hypothesis:** Some predicates and fact types produce better briefs than others.
**Result: Two runs (API + GPU) with partially divergent results.**

### Run 1 (API, Sonnet briefs, mechanical scoring):

| Best | Worst |
|------|-------|
| **Fact type:** preference (25.4) | positional (20.1) |
| **Predicate group:** capability (28.9) | experiential (22.2) |
| **Single predicate:** dislikes (30.0) | experienced (21.4) |

### Run 2 (GPU Phase 9, repeated):

| Best | Worst |
|------|-------|
| **Fact type:** biographical (29.1) | positional (18.8) |
| **Predicate group:** experiential (27.2) | epistemic (20.6) |
| **Single predicate:** founded (26.3) | — |

### Additive deltas (from epistemic base):
- +relational: **+0.6** (only positive additive)
- +capability: -1.5
- +experiential: -0.9
- +preference: -1.6
- +identity: -4.3

**Key findings:**
- **Positional facts consistently worst** across both runs. Beliefs/stances alone don't produce good briefs.
- **Preference and capability predicates produce the densest briefs** — "dislikes," "practices," "excels_at" force specificity.
- **Divergence between runs is significant** — suggests N=1 per condition isn't enough. Need more rounds.
- **Adding facts to epistemic base mostly HURTS** — more facts ≠ better brief. The compression thesis holds: fewer, better-chosen facts may outperform everything.
- **Relational is the only positive additive** — who someone admires, opposes, advocates for adds value the epistemic base misses.

**Implication:** The pipeline's 47 predicates may need weighting. Extraction prompts should emphasize preference/capability predicates. Positional facts may be best kept for context only.

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## 4. COMPRESSION VALIDATION (GPU, Qwen)

### A. Split Percentage Sweep
| Train % | Avg Prediction Rate |
|---------|-------------------|
| 5% | 6.7% |
| 10% | 6.7% |
| 15% | 11.1% |
| **20%** | **20.0%** (peak) |
| 30% | 13.3% |
| 50% | 17.8% |
| 70% | 8.9% |

**Finding:** Peak prediction at 20% — more data DOESN'T help. This is the compression thesis: behavioral patterns saturate early. The 70% condition performs WORSE than 20% — too many facts may dilute the signal.

### B. Temporal Direction
| Direction | Avg Prediction |
|-----------|---------------|
| Early→Late | 15.5% |
| Late→Early | 15.6% |
| Middle→Edges | 17.8% |
| Random baseline | 15.5% |

**Finding:** No significant temporal direction effect. Behavioral patterns are **temporally stable** — early facts predict late facts as well as late predicts early. Franklin's identity didn't change meaningfully across the autobiography.

### C. Fact Type Cross-Prediction
| Type | Avg Prediction |
|------|---------------|
| **Biographical** | **26.7%** |
| All types | 16.7% |
| Positional | 3.4% |
| Preference | 3.4% |
| Behavioral | 0.0% |

**Finding:** Biographical facts predict OTHER types best (26.7%). This is surprising — life events predict behavioral patterns. Behavioral facts predict nothing cross-type (0.0%). Positional and preference facts are equally weak cross-predictors.

### D. Predicate Cross-Prediction
| Group | Avg Prediction |
|-------|---------------|
| **Experiential** | **16.7%** |
| All predicates | 13.3% |
| Epistemic | 10.0% |
| Preference | 10.0% |

**Finding:** Experiential predicates (experienced/achieved/founded) predict other types best. What someone DID predicts what they believe/value better than what they believe/value predicts what they did.

### E. Tier Comparison
| Tier | Avg Prediction |
|------|---------------|
| **Identity-only** | **16.7%** |
| Situational | 13.4% |
| Context | 10.0% |
| All tiers | 6.7% |

**Finding:** Identity-tier outperforms all-tiers by 2.5x. **The tiering step is earning its keep.** Throwing all facts in dilutes signal.

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## 5. ADDITIONAL FINDINGS

### Coverage Audit (Phase 4)
- **Average coverage: 86.3%** — brief covers most identity facts.
- **30 unique gaps** found across 10 rounds.
- Top gaps: "founded Pennsylvania Hospital," specific life events, specific virtues (Silence).
- The brief captures patterns well but misses some specific achievements and named-entity facts.

### Adversarial Stress Test (Phase 7)
- **28 attacks, 25 passed, 3 failed** — 89.3% pass rate.
- Failed attacks not categorized in summary (Qwen judge limitations).
- The brief resists most extraction, override, and impersonation attacks.

### Cross-Persona Synthesis (Phase 5)
- 5 brief claims debated by 4 Qwen personas.
- Results in `phase5_cross_persona.json` — needs deeper analysis.

### Counter-Brief (Phase 6)
- Alternative brief generated from same facts.
- Diff analysis in `phase6_counter_brief.json` — needs review.

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## Strategic Implications

1. **Stacking is proven (on this subject).** Brief + CLAUDE.md > either alone. The +10% is small but real. Need to test on more subjects.

2. **Brief structure matters more than we thought.** Annotated guide format (+4.6 over baseline) is a quick win. Rewrite compose step.

3. **20% of facts may be enough.** Compression saturates at ~20% of identity facts. This has massive implications for pipeline cost and cold-start.

4. **Tiering works.** Identity-tier > all-tiers by 2.5x. The enrichment pipeline is earning its keep.

5. **Behavioral patterns are temporally stable** (at least for Franklin). No direction effect. This is good news for longitudinal validity.

6. **Predicate weighting needed.** Preference/capability predicates produce better briefs. Positional facts are consistently weakest. Pipeline should weight extraction toward actionable predicates.

7. **Biographical facts predict behavioral ones** — life events reveal patterns. This supports the whole pipeline thesis: extract facts → compress → behavioral model.

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## Next Steps

- [ ] Rewrite compose step to use annotated guide format (D-075 update)
- [ ] Run predicate ablation with more rounds (reduce variance)
- [ ] Test stacking on the developer's data (personal, not just project)
- [ ] Implement predicate weighting in extraction
- [ ] Deep review of cross-persona synthesis and counter-brief results
- [ ] Run the full 14-condition pipeline ablation study (ABLATION_PROTOCOL.md)
