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router school / provenance

Artifacts & provenance

A result that cannot be traced to a pinned artifact is a story. Every stage below lists what it produced, whether that artifact is public, and its SHA-256 where publishing the digest is safe.

// disclosure policy

What is published, and what is not

Public evaluation artifacts carry metrics, provenance and digests with prompt bodies and raw completions stripped. Private artifacts hold the row-level material and are written at mode 0600; neither their contents nor their digests appear here. Every row below states which side of that line it falls on.

  • Published: dataset and manifest digests, adapter digests, public evaluation digests, and the compute receipt that ties them together.
  • Withheld: prompt bodies, raw model completions, session content, user identifiers, credentials, and the digests of mode-0600 artifacts. Those digests are retained in the private receipt where the audit chain needs them.
  • A digest shown as not published in this record means the artifact is public but its digest was not part of the source record this site was built from — not that it is secret.
V1

Round-1 shadow eval

ArtifactPathVisibilitySHA-256Note
Public site recorddata/projects/router-school.jsonpublicnot published in this recordno private prompt text
Row-level eval outputtooling/artifacts/router-school-eval.jsonprivatewithheld — private artifactmode 0600 — body withheld
Independent audit transcriptsGrok 4.5 (337 lines) · Kimi K3 (257 lines)privatewithheld — private artifactdispatch-local, bodies withheld
V2

Foundation rebuild and bounded GPU matrix

ArtifactPathVisibilitySHA-256Note
V2 baselinestooling/artifacts/router-school-v2-baselines.jsonpublicnot published in this recordmajority + task-class rule
V2 TF-IDF logreg baselinetooling/artifacts/router-school-v2-tfidf-logreg.jsonpublicnot published in this recordbalanced word 1–2gram
V2 fixtures + manifesttooling/fixtures/v2/{train,val,test,manifest}.jsonpublicnot published in this recorddeterministic rebuild verified by sha256sum -c
Preregistrationtooling/ROUTER_SCHOOL_V2_PREREGISTRATION.mdpublicnot published in this recordP1–P9 gates written before training
V3

Current-policy distillation

ArtifactPathVisibilitySHA-256Note
V3 train SFT manifesttooling/fixtures/v3-policy-distill/publicb6de0235529d23f47a42d0dcbc6bc368b373b68159e95a0c314738121086c864manifest SHA-256 of the train SFT split
V3 policy-distill eval (invalidated)tooling/artifacts/router-school-v3-policy-r16-eval.jsonpublicnot published in this recordretained as the record of the harness defect
V4

Fairness specialist (3B)

ArtifactPathVisibilitySHA-256Note
V4 dataset manifesttooling/fixtures/v4-fairness-specialist/manifest.jsonpublice082229bab312618f4d4e4c1590dcee3951b03d7734bc45d1c2af8d0e9dab8d7schema owlforge.router-school.fairness-specialist.v4
V4 train SFT splittooling/fixtures/v4-fairness-specialist/train-sft.jsonpublic5abcd931c25d8a56ca73cc6cfba4f8f167f8557f8e0fe5436b2fb0e59d86201a
V4 train splittooling/fixtures/v4-fairness-specialist/train.jsonpublicd10b425b4bbd706ecf3d8f722ebe4c60c82744987424de42342bb03587107cac
V4 test splittooling/fixtures/v4-fairness-specialist/test.jsonpublic1e9b03dca19423b08ed1396b3b3ae3999813a2b3869edcc48946a1fb9534f037105 rows — the frozen window every later cell is scored on
V4 adapterartifacts/checkpoints/router-v4-fairness-r16-lorapublicb44784f8f0283fcb2169b418de7d10dc186dc80277f663e6bd81c9d466e89837adapter SHA pinned in both the train and eval wrappers
V4 baselinestooling/artifacts/router-school-v4-baselines.jsonpublicnot published in this recordwritten before the GPU cell shipped
V4-1B

1B distillation

ArtifactPathVisibilitySHA-256Note
V4-1B adapterartifacts/checkpoints/router-v4-fairness-1b-r16-lorapublic73fb4805a9ea32aa210bf60074f719317d8f8bfed13517d985ca7cb34e3887f3
V4-1B public evaltooling/artifacts/router-school-v4-fairness-1b-r16-eval.jsonpublicnot published in this record
V4-1B private evaltooling/artifacts/router-school-v4-fairness-1b-r16-eval-private.jsonprivatewithheld — private artifactraw generations — body withheld
V5

Tiny numeric MLP

ArtifactPathVisibilitySHA-256Note
V5 public evaluationtooling/artifacts/router-school-v5-fairness-mlp-eval.jsonpublicd4f0b8f52d000f8bbb8432a962db3e62cf238cc94e50dc1de94cad6e0f74590dmode 0664 — public by design
V5 private evaluationtooling/artifacts/router-school-v5-fairness-mlp-eval-private.jsonprivatewithheld — private artifactmode 0600 — row-level bodies withheld; digest held in the private receipt
V5 modeltooling/artifacts/models/router-v5-fairness-mlp.jsonprivatewithheld — private artifactmode 0600 — digest held in the private receipt
V5 OOD windowtooling/artifacts/router-school-v5-ood-window.jsonpublicnot published in this recorda private companion window is held at mode 0600
V5 compute receiptgpu-lab/receipts/20260804T144750Z-router-school-v5-fairness-mlp.jsonpublicnot published in this recordprovenance.artifacts carries the matching digest for every artifact above
Experiment-tracker runmlflow run 7c1d3fdd4470470eba842f7bab883ec2publicnot published in this recordstatus success
// site provenance

This site is a literal port

The visual shell is not inspired by the Clockwork Owl theme; it is the theme. The stylesheets and brand assets below are vendored byte-identical from a pinned commit and re-verified on every test run.

Vendored file Canonical source SHA-256
css/main.css themes/hermanity/assets/css/main.css 96640ce1e47568ec17a580e139d24bc341be558a258e29a9a2102735be61a3b8
css/page-banners.css themes/hermanity/assets/css/page-banners.css 64f61c53cf351bc3a752995d7f6f177a00cccd45228ce981a7d199797f42dd7f
css/research-bands.css themes/hermanity/assets/css/research-bands.css 50ee01648c68a9e4c66ffcda32b6d130ef7c7b410227bf85c167581379d4acfe

Source project herman/hermanity-theme-template at commit 9b891c1098f7277bd05e3e75d1e61d78b7ee92aa. The full manifest — including the six favicon and brand assets and the six Clockwork Owl hero renditions — is in THEME_PROVENANCE.json, and the test suite diffs every vendored byte against that commit whenever the canonical checkout is reachable.

The only site-authored stylesheet is css/router-school.css. It defines the programme crest, measurement cells, gate marks, ladder rungs and the progressive ledger filter — and nothing else. A test rejects any palette, font face, token redefinition or shell selector appearing in it.

// this record

The site's own source of truth

Everything on this site that is a number comes out of two JSON documents, and the pages are projections of them rather than independent prose. They are served as-is:

Document Contains
data/ledger.json The programme record, the current conclusion, the classification ladder, every stage cell with its measurements, gates and artifacts, and the open questions.
data/methodology.json The falsification gate set, the three-baseline requirement, the audit pattern and the standing discipline rules.

Adding a V6 stage is appending one object to cells and re-running the renderer. The rendered markup is committed, so the ledger reads identically with scripting disabled; scripting only adds the verdict filter at the top of the ledger page.

// upstream record

Where these numbers came from

Router School began as one station of an overnight research campaign and outgrew a single detail page. The campaign index remains the origin record and continues to carry the other stations; this site is the programme's own home.

Stage records were synthesized from the campaign's own reference documents for the V1 falsification pattern, the V2 foundation and TDD recipe, the V3 policy distillation, the V4 fairness specialist, the V4-1B distillation result, the V5 numeric MLP, and the shared adapter shadow-eval recipe. Two adjacent reference documents — the V2 GPU matrix execution notes and the V3 prompt-template mismatch analysis — supplied the V2 cell results and the V3 harness defect respectively.