evil_MoE/docs/AFK_CHECK.md

AFK hourly check — current protocol

Paste this (or just point me at it) for the hourly check. Supersedes the old A1/A2-keynote + A5-harvest checklist, which closed 2026-06-04 (see below).

Standing checks (every hour)

1. GPU idle while queued? pueue status. If idle with jobs Queued, investigate
   • unblock.
2. New Failed/Killed? (ignore old killed 78). Read pueue log {ID} --full, form 3 hypotheses (likely / subtle / I-was-wrong), weight them, fix root cause, requeue with why:/resolve:. No blind retry.
3. Running job health — discriminating review, not did-it-finish: reward not collapsed, lp_s stable (~-0.4), no divergence tripwire, deploy-eval matches the arm's expectation.

THE priority: route2 directionality mystery (#196)

Is route2's deploy-hack suppression directional (H4: needs the hack direction) or mechanical (H2: alignment-agnostic quarantine-absorption)? The batch is staged interleaved (one of each family per tier):

• Haar (114/118/122, --route2-random-v-seed): out-of-subspace null (cos~1/sqrt(d) by concentration, NOT a cleaner placebo). Tests "must v_grad be in-subspace at all?"
• semantic placebo (115/119/123 vampire, 119/120... bacon/blue): in-subspace arbitrary directions. Tests "must it point at the hack specifically?" Maps suppression-vs-alignment as a scatter.
• null_city n=3 (117/121 s42/s43): is the deploy-hack=0.000 placebo result robust across seeds or an s41 fluke.
• erase directionality (116 real-v, 120 placebo): erase projects with magnitude ~cos(g,v), so direction MUST matter there if it matters anywhere.

As each finishes: pull deploy hack/solve, and (for the scatter) each placebo's per-module |cos| with the hack dir. Verdict logic:

• all suppress regardless of alignment, incl. Haar => H2 mechanical.
• suppression tracks |cos|, or Haar fails to suppress => H4 alignment.

Cosine is correlational; the ablation run is the causal test. Commit findings to the journal. Don't re-derive the no-cheat E-by-mode table unless an A5 run changes — it's confirmed (journal 2026-06-05 (h)) and gated by verify_gate_anchor.py.

Background paper artifacts (lower prio, already in-flight, DON'T re-do)

• A1/A2 keynote (#173): CLOSED. tab:keynote is n=3 both arms with paired t-test.
• A5 generalisation (#185): CLOSED; airtight no-cheat rerun queued (111-113).
• A4 long-run (#184): matched-beta pair 100/101 queued.
• #186 on-policy emergence: job 87 (running) / 105 (route2 toff40, queued).

Commit progress. Don't stop to ask — autonomous judgement; if unsure, commit and continue.