item 26 scored: staging supervision actively harmful (24.2 alone, 15.6 combined) — blanket pre-'=' forcing corrupts the board's just-in-time schedule; overnight program complete, items 25-28 all scored

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

results-loop/PROTOCOL_UNIFIED.md

@@ -751,6 +751,25 @@ after it (job renamed zzz_t).
     rollout-based follow-up (latent DAgger) if either lens arm moves.
     Job: scripts/jobs/zzz_r_rungb_lg.sh.
 
+--- Outcome, item 26 (scored 2026-07-17 ~10:50; ran last, requeued as
+zzz_t after items 27/28 per Nils's mid-night reprioritization). k=0
+sanity clean both arms. Arm a (staging-only, lg03): 24.2 / 23.4 —
+the series' first ACTIVELY NEGATIVE result, ~7 points below the 31.6
+reference, outside the band on the downside (easy 44.8-48.3, hard
+~26-28, drop 12-15). Arm b (combined lt03+lg03): 15.6 / 14.1 —
+compounding destruction (easy 27.6, hard 18-21, drop 5-6), worse than
+either constraint alone. Reading: the microscopy showed the healthy
+board computes results 1-2 positions pre-emission (just-in-time); the
+staging loss demanded the result across the ENTIRE pre-'=' span,
+including positions where operands haven't been read — forcing
+thought earlier than the computation can exist corrupts the schedule
+rather than accelerating it. Lesson for any future lens supervision:
+match the loss's temporal demand to the board's measured schedule
+(supervise at the '=' +- 1 position only), don't blanket-force.
+Overnight program complete: items 25-28 all scored; write-side
+exhausted; the standing decision (clamp test vs pivot to hybrid/A2)
+is unchanged by this result.
+
 27. **Internal band looping, zero pause tokens (pre-registered
     2026-07-17 ~01:10, before running; Nils's clarified structure,
     option A confirmed via question: one silent burst before output).**