item 25 closed (truncated): writing is not computing — lce 1.9 with 2:12 flat at 31.2 (log-only; eval json never written due to kill); λ=1.0 arm cancelled; item 27 promoted

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

results-loop/PROTOCOL_UNIFIED.md

@@ -708,6 +708,24 @@ auxiliary supervision, A2, E2-N.
     the open question is world 2 (writes but doesn't compute) vs
     world 3 (reopens the ladder).
 
+--- Outcome, item 25 (closed 2026-07-17 ~01:25, TRUNCATED by Nils:
+"cancel that 2:16 and then try the new approach"). λ=0.3 arm: lens-CE
+converged to ~1.9 (the pause-chain reliably writes the deleted step in
+lens code, top-few over 262k vocab) while eval 2:12 = 31.2
+(drop .18 / easy .586 / hard .354) vs the 31.6 reference — FLAT, not
+even a redistribution across buckets. k=0 sanity clean. World 2
+confirmed on the measured cell: WRITING IS NOT COMPUTING — the
+carried state can be taught to verbalizably display the missing step
+at the right timesteps and the displayed content is not consumed
+downstream. 2:16 and the λ=1.0 arm cancelled mid-run (λ=0.3's flat
+cell made λ=1.0 uninformative; ~2.5h GPU saved). Program value: the
+cleanest representation/computation dissociation in the series; the
+read-side (what the suffix computation consumes from the board) is
+now the prime suspect, and the pause-tape architecture allows
+display-without-routing. Item 27 (zero-pause internal looping, no
+tape to display on) runs next by Nils's direction; item 26 requeued
+after it (job renamed zzz_t).
+
 26. **Result-staging supervision during generation (pre-registered
     2026-07-17 ~03:25, before running; Nils: "can we try to train the
     loop using jspace during generation?").** The microscopy's