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teamchong 0ec9efe9ca docs: FINDINGS field observation (n=1) + glyph-matrix PLAN.md
- FINDINGS.md: dated 2026-06-12 entry logging in-the-wild verbatim
  misreads (7/10 exact, ~3.3% per-char, 2/3 silent) alongside flawless
  gist-tier recall in the same session. Explicitly anecdotal, n=1,
  non-reproducible — motivation only.
- eval/glyph-matrix/PLAN.md: public plan for the paused confusion-matrix
  experiment (Task #7) so the pending work is visible outside README,
  per the measured-numbers-only README rule.
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Glyph confusion matrix + render-style A/B (Task #7) — PLANNED, paused for usage budget

Status: paused 2026-06-12 at 05:45am · resume after weekly limit reset (Jun 18 ~5:59pm Toronto) Working state: ~/glyphmx-paused/ (canonical backup, 330 files, 21MB) · scratch /tmp/glyphmx · resume via run.sh (limit-aware, skips banked trials) Detailed handoff: HANDOFF.md (repo root)

What this measures

Per-character confusion matrix for 12-char hex IDs read back through the pixelpipe render path, across render-style arms — the precision-tier failure mode that gist-recall (98/98) structurally cannot surface and needle-haystack only bracketed (~87% exact-match on worst-case hex at prod style).

  • 40 trials/arm × 5 arms (prod 500px baseline + style A/B first pass: onebit, color, grid, + winner expansion to 30 later)
  • Each trial: 1 page, ~222 image tokens, 40 dense JSON lines, 5 labeled 12-char hex IDs (LCG-seeded, seed 20260612) + 8-hex distractors
  • Reader: claude-fable-5 only (production gate model), direct API route
  • Grading: exact-hit rate per trial (12/12 chars), per-char confusion matrix, pooled misses; hard-fails on empty/poisoned output graded as misses

Banked so far

  • 2/40 prod-arm trials valid (out_prod_0.txt, out_prod_1.txt in ~/glyphmx-paused/), not poisoned; run halted on session limit (HALTED-ON-LIMIT in run.log)
  • All 120 rendered pages for the first pass are pre-rendered and backed up — resume only spends read calls, not render work

Why it's not in README yet

README rule for this repo: measured numbers + n only, no marketing tone. This experiment ships to README after the matrix completes — as "at render style X, content carries at ~N× fewer input tokens with measured per-character read error E% on worst-case zero-redundancy content." Until then it lives here so the plan is public without an unearned headline.

Decision criteria (when trials finish)

  1. Per-arm exact-hit rate (5 labels vs golds), per-char confusion on misses, which hex glyph pairs confuse (0↔8, e↔4, e↔8, f/t suspects).
  2. If any zero-cost style beats prod meaningfully (and prod ≈ known ~87%), recommend flipping default in src/core/render.ts (e.g. DENSE_RENDER_STYLE gains colorCycle:true) — token-cost-neutral, but re-run harness to confirm before changing defaults.
  3. Update README verbatim row + FINDINGS.md dated entry; copy receipts (golds.json, outs, grade.py) into eval/glyph-matrix/ and commit.

See FINDINGS.md "Update (2026-06-12) — field observation": an n=1 in-the-wild session captured 7/10 exact / ~3.3% per-char misreads on the same confusion classes (0→8, e→4/8), 2 of 3 misses silent. Anecdotal, non-reproducible — motivation only; this harness is what produces the publishable numbers.