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1509 lines of measurement written over this session lived ONLY in the untracked `wiki/` tree -- local-only files that die with the machine. Every number below was expensive to produce and none of it was recoverable. Placed under `site/src/reference/` (the committed mdBook) rather than un-ignoring `wiki/`: that directory was deliberately moved out of git on 2026-08-07 and purged from all history on 2026-08-21, so adding it back would reverse a decision someone made on purpose. It also holds 228 files / 11 MB that nobody asked to publish. These four are the ones written this session. Cross-references rewritten from `wiki/<file>.md` to `./<file>.md`; verified zero remaining `wiki/` or `docs/` paths, which would have been dead links for any reader. ## What is in them pipeline-golden-path.md (783 lines) -- input formats through docking, xtb and DFT to QM/MM, with a decision procedure for BOTH branches. Docking (G0-G4) works end to end; catalysts (C0-C5) are blocked at C3 because ferric has no saddle search. Carries a status table of what has landed on main since it was written (ten PRs). substitution-pipeline.md (260) -- the danuglipron/GLP-1R prototype. Both cheap gates are useless on a real lead, for OPPOSITE reasons, and the discriminating signal is relative to the parent. ci-timing-analysis.md (370) -- where the 63.2 min actually goes (52.3 min is tests EXECUTING, ~11 min compile), the LPT shard analysis, and the measured ~7% MPI launch-flake rate. pipeline-survey.md (96) -- the initial survey that scoped the rest. ## Why they are worth committing rather than summarising They record RETRACTIONS as well as results, which is the part that does not survive a summary: - tier 3.5 embedding cost: estimated ~2x, MEASURED ~1.0x -- wrong by 2x, and the estimate did not follow from the argument given for it - TS verification: 6N+1 gradients from reading the loop, MEASURED exactly 6N from the code's own counter - a filterset "catastrophically over-filtering" -- that was a `tail -8` read as a full listing - "ATM is ~0.003% of two-body" from methane alone; the real worst case is 0.1003% and RISES with system size Each is a case where a first answer looked clean and was wrong. A summary keeps the corrected number and loses the reason it was corrected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 346-347: Update the “Triage cost” statement near the annotation
example to remove the unsupported “most PRs” claim and accurately describe the
probability for five independent runs at a 6.7% failure rate, approximately 29%,
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- Around line 241-249: Update the LPT sample documentation around the 324 paired
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- Around line 325-331: Update the MPI timing analysis section to reconcile the
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In `@site/src/reference/pipeline-survey.md`:
- Around line 31-34: Update the documentation gap statement around the grep
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612.4-second STO-3G/PBE result separate from the 70-atom def2-SVP/PBE estimate.
In `@site/src/reference/substitution-pipeline.md`:
- Around line 155-165: The document’s blocker and work order should no longer
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Update the substitution pipeline documentation to recognize the existing seeded
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Document the 20 records omitted from the LPT sample.
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| Counted across the last 90 workflow runs, taking each run's `mpi` job | ||
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| 3 failure -> 3/45 completed = 6.7% | ||
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Account for the missing runs in the MPI sample.
The section states a 90-run window but lists only 49 outcomes: 42 successes, 3 failures, and 4 cancellations. The 3/45 = 6.7% calculation is consistent for the listed non-cancelled outcomes, but the document does not explain the remaining 41 runs. Define the collection population and document the exclusion rule, or change the window to match the listed runs.
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| 1. **Triage cost.** At ~7% per run and 5+ pushes per PR, most PRs will hit it | ||
| at least once. The annotation is the fastest discriminator -- `gh api |
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Correct the probability claim for five pushes.
At a 6.7% failure rate, five independent runs have about a 29% chance of at least one failure, not “most”. State the actual number of pushes used or replace “most” with a supported probability.
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| **Gap: `grep -rn 'tools/pipeline|funnel|vina' site/src/` returns NOTHING.** | ||
| None of this is in the published mdBook. Same failure mode as the QM/MM page | ||
| that PR #89 just fixed: a working, documented-in-source capability with no | ||
| route to it from the docs. |
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Scope the documentation grep to the pre-PR state.
After this PR, grep -rn 'tools/pipeline|funnel|vina' site/src/ returns matches in these new references. Mark this as a pre-PR measurement or restrict the command to the prior documentation set.
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| ### VERIFIED on the REAL GLP-1R pocket (2026-09-19) | ||
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| ligand : 15 QM atoms handed to embed_ligand_from_coords | ||
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| SMILES -> 3-D -> real pocket -> QM-ready. Every hop is code that exists today. |
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Update the blocker and work order for the committed ETKDG helper. tools/pipeline/substitution.py:208 is tracked and tested. embed_proposals already performs seeded ETKDG + MMFF and returns symbols and coordinates. Therefore the document must not describe the ETKDG hop as missing or keep it as work item 1. The remaining gap is the handoff from embed_proposals into embed_ligand_from_coords and the pocket scoring path. The reported run does not show that embed_proposals performs this handoff.
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documentation to recognize the existing seeded ETKDG/MMFF behavior in
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| `tools/pipeline/substitution.py` — an adapter, not new chemistry: parent SMILES | ||
| + site SMARTS + pocket PDB in, funnel-shaped tier callables out, always | ||
| reporting ddE against the parent. ~150 lines plus tests, because everything | ||
| underneath already works. |
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Label the implementation-size estimate.
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Updates the golden-path note against what has landed, and adds the use-case coverage table. **Section 4 rewritten.** It read "Catalyst optimization is BLOCKED". The blocker was C3 -- no saddle search anywhere in the tree -- and `ferric_scf::saddle::find_saddle` (P-RFO, branch `feat/saddle-prfo`) now implements it. C0-C5 is complete in principle. The section now states what that does NOT mean: no analytic Hessian, no IRC (so which two minima a saddle connects is unverified), no reaction-coordinate constraint, and not yet wired to the QM/MM evaluator. **A correction the old section needed.** It claimed P-RFO could "reuse the Hessian machinery already in hessian.rs". Wrong -- `rhf_hessian` is a stub that always returns Err, which that same section says four paragraphs later. The working Hessian is `frequencies.rs`'s central-differenced one, and that is what `saddle.rs` calls. **A second stale claim, more dangerous.** The heading "Frequencies / TS verification cost 6N gradients (ESTIMATED consequence)" and its first paragraph said **6N + 1** -- while the table two paragraphs BELOW recorded the MEASURED 6N (H2 = 12, water = 18) that refuted exactly that. A stale summary sitting above a correct measurement is worse than no summary, because the summary is what gets quoted. Both corrected. **New cost framing.** With the search available, the Hessian's 6N gradients are now the binding constraint rather than the missing algorithm: a run is 1 Hessian (6N) + ~20-60 P-RFO steps (1 gradient each), so the Hessian dominates below ~10 atoms and the steps dominate above. **New page:** `pharma-use-case-coverage.md`. Measured by grep on `origin/main`, not read off the pipeline docs. Seven of eight named use cases have working code; transition state was the only gap. Records the method error too -- the first pass used escaped alternation inside `grep -E` and falsely reported four PRESENT capabilities as absent. Also updated: the #99 dispersion entry. The consequence of having no analytic dispersion gradient is no longer a silently wrong surface -- #99 now REFUSES `task="optimize"` and `with_gradient=True` when dispersion is configured, rather than optimising the uncorrected surface while reporting corrected energies. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The baseline was keyed on ABSOLUTE paths with the leading slash removed:
home/matt/qc/ferric/crates/ferric-cc/src/ccd.rs::ccd@24
`rust-code-analysis-cli` mirrors each input's absolute path into its
output tree, so `os.path.relpath(fpath, tmp)` recovers the absolute
path, not a repo-relative one. All 6104 baseline keys carry one
checkout's directory.
Consequence: the gate is unusable in any git worktree. Every function
looks NEW, so every push is measured against the bare
NEW_FUNCTION_CC_CEILING instead of against its own recorded history --
and it fails on changes that touch no Rust at all. This was found by a
commit whose entire diff was one `.config/nextest.toml` file.
Fixed by stripping ROOT from the recovered path. Keys are now
crates/ferric-cc/src/ccd.rs::ccd@24
which is portable across worktrees and machines -- the same reasoning as
[[never-commit-machine-specific-values]].
The baseline itself still holds the old keys and must be regenerated in
the MAIN checkout (`python3 scripts/complexity_gate.py
--update-baseline`), so the diff is reviewable rather than encoding a
worktree path. Doing that separately, because it also surfaces a real
regression the path bug was masking: solve_rhf is CC=176 and
solve_uhf_fockmod CC=153, both above the 150 ceiling, both grown in #88
(TRAH/AURORA). That is a genuine signal and deserves its own change, not
a silent re-baseline bundled in here.
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Mechanically required by the previous commit: all 6104 keys were
absolute paths, so the file had to be regenerated once they became
repo-relative. 7211 functions, 0 keys starting with "home/".
What this BAKES IN, stated so it is visible in review rather than buried
in a 7000-entry diff:
crates/ferric-scf/src/rhf.rs::solve_rhf@753 CC=176
crates/ferric-scf/src/uhf.rs::solve_uhf_fockmod@360 CC=153
Both exceed NEW_FUNCTION_CC_CEILING (150). Both grew in #88
(TRAH/AURORA-SCF), and the path bug is precisely why that landed
unnoticed -- with no key matching, the gate never compared them against
their own history. The script's own header still reads "solve_rhf,
CC=134", which was true when written.
They are NOT fixed here. Recording them is the honest move: the gate is
live again, so any FURTHER growth in either function fails a push, and
simplifying two SCF drivers is not a gate fix.
MUTATION TESTED: lowering solve_rhf's baseline entry to CC=10 makes the
gate report "CC 10 -> 176 (+166)" and FAIL, so it is live rather than
passing vacuously.
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CI note: A 2x bar against a 2.37x prediction is ~16% headroom on a shared runner, so it is a timing flake on main rather than a regression here. Re-running; if it recurs the bar itself wants revisiting (the comment above it already says to re-derive from term counts rather than assume 2x). |
The substitution-pipeline note listed "the pose problem is unsolved and
blocks the QM tier" as constraint 2, with per-pose sd 29.07 kcal/mol
against 1-2 kcal/mol substituent effects.
M12 (2026-09-19, RESULTS.md) closes the last open route. All three ways
to average the scatter down now have numbers against them:
more poses (M5) sd flat in n
relax in field (M6) real 15%, ~3 orders short
real docking (M12) 1%, 32.5x short
Docked poses give sd 28.75 vs M6's 29.07 while being geometrically MORE
diverse (pairwise RMSD 3.84 -> 5.81 A), so this is not an
ensemble-quality problem that better poses fix.
The sharpest number: Vina's own score on those same 15 geometries has
sd 0.83; xtb on the identical geometries, 28.75. The cheap tier sees a
nearly flat landscape where xtb sees 103 kcal/mol.
The consequence for this pipeline is a design decision, not a wait: the
connector must SELECT a pose rather than average over an ensemble. M9
redocks danuglipron to 0.95 A, so selection is defensible -- it is an
assumption to state, not noise to average down. It also means
funnel.py's one-row-per-MOLECULE keying, written up as a blocker, is the
RIGHT shape once the pose is selected.
Original blocker text kept inline: its reasoning is still correct for
the averaging approach it rejects.
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Answers the recurring question "how do we make a pipeline for proposing
viable substitutions for drug active sites" with the one design decision
that was genuinely open: average over a pose ensemble, or select a pose?
M12 (2026-09-19) closes the last of three routes to averaging:
more poses (M4/M5) sd flat in n ~7350 poses needed
relax in field (M6) real 15% ~3 orders short
real docking (M12) 1%, poses MORE diverse 32.5x short
So: SELECT one pose per analogue and score that, stating the selection
as an assumption. Defensible because pose GENERATION is solved here --
M9 redocks danuglipron into 7LCJ at 0.95 A, where the best of 20 RDKit
conformers was 2.23 A and nothing cleared the 2.0 A bar.
The number that makes it concrete, on the SAME 15 geometries: Vina's own
score has sd 0.83, xtb 28.75. The cheap tier sees a flat landscape where
xtb sees 103 kcal/mol -- the empirical case for the hierarchy, not a
defect.
Four rules, each from a measurement:
1. ddE vs the parent, never absolute.
2. The unit is the (substituent, SITE) pair -- within/between 0.94-0.95
on two independent constructions.
3. funnel.py's one-row-per-MOLECULE keying is now CORRECT, not a
blocker: with the pose selected there is no ensemble to express.
This is the concrete thing M12 changed.
4. Ionization state is an explicit input (anion/neutral split is
143 kcal/mol), never defaulted to 0.
Also records what is NOT settled, because the shape being determined is
not the same as the ranking being right: the selection is an assumption
(no crystal pose to check against on a novel target), no end-to-end
ranking has been validated against known relative affinities, tier 4
does not yet fit the funnel (M10), and dispersion (#99) is unmerged.
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The cost table had no saddle-search entry -- there was no saddle search
to cost until ferric_scf::saddle landed. Measured as a CALL COUNT rather
than a wall time, because the count is a property of the algorithm and
the time is a property of the box.
total = n_hessian * 6N + n_steps (gradient evaluations)
Hessians per search 2 start + final character check
gradients per step 1
one Hessian 6N H2 = 12, water = 18
At N = 20 that is 240 + n_steps, so the two Hessians DOMINATE until
n_steps exceeds ~240 -- which is why hessian_recalc_every defaults to 0
(setting it to 1 measured 4 Hessians vs 2, i.e. 480 vs 240
gradient-equivalents at N=20).
Consequence worth stating: the step count matters far less for a TS
search than for a minimization. 30 -> 100 steps moves the total by 26%,
because the fixed Hessian cost swamps it. The ~46-58 h figures are
ESTIMATED and say so -- the multiplier is measured, the 612 s
multiplicand is a 71-atom single point from a different system.
Carries the same FLOOR caveat as the 34-step BFGS figure: the step count
came from a two-atom analytic surface with no soft degrees of freedom.
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…han expected
Section 4 said "not wired to QM/MM ... a task, not done", and next-action
item 0 was that wiring. Both are now stale.
`examples/qmmm_saddle.rs` runs the whole chain on an embedded system:
SCF -> analytic embedded gradient -> finite-difference embedded Hessian
-> trans/rot projection -> saddle step, verified by running it.
The part expected to block it did not: a QM/MM Hessian needs NO new
machinery. `frequencies::harmonic_frequencies` already threads
`config.external_potential` into the same `rhf_gradient(.., ext)` /
`ks_gradient_closed(.., ext)` calls (frequencies.rs:649). One ordinary
call, not a new code path.
Three limitations recorded rather than glossed, and they are why it is
an EXAMPLE and not a library entry point:
- MM charges FIXED, so a barrier omits MM relaxation along the
reaction coordinate (optimize_qmmm rebuilds per step, qmmm.rs:2066)
- link atoms placed from the start geometry do not track the frontier
- promoting it needs optimize_qmmm's 172-line inline evaluator
extracted, which is its own PR
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Yesterday's note (same day, earlier commit) concluded from M12 that the
substitution connector should SELECT one pose rather than average over
an ensemble. That was wrong. This retracts it in both pipeline notes and
rewrites what the pipeline may claim.
M13 re-analyses M12's own 15 poses, asking a question M12 did not:
Spearman(vina rank, pose_fit) = -0.261 p = 0.35
Pearson = -0.328 p = 0.23
The selection axis is statistically INDEPENDENT of the scoring axis.
That is good for BIAS -- unlike v1's `min` estimator (-49.89 kcal/mol
bias), selecting on an uncorrelated axis is unbiased in expectation. It
is fatal for PRECISION: "pick rank 0" becomes one random draw from a
distribution with sd 28.75.
select one pose ddE noise 40.66 163x the 0.25 kcal/mol gap
average n = 100 ddE noise 4.07 16x
Selection is worse by exactly sqrt(n) = 10x. Averaging is the least-bad
of four inadequate options, not the worst.
WHAT I MIS-READ, and it was already in the file. I justified selection
with "M9 redocks danuglipron to 0.95 A". M9 says, two paragraphs under
its own headline, that Vina put the right pose first "partly by luck" --
r(vina_score, RMSD) = +0.461, only 4 of 20 poses under 2.0 A. I quoted
the headline and not the caveat directly beneath it.
Consequences propagated through both notes:
- P4 is "pose ENSEMBLE (do NOT take rank 0)", P6 averages over it
- funnel.py's one-row-per-candidate keying is a REAL OPEN GAP again;
I had briefly recorded it as closed
- the closing section is now "what the pipeline may and may not claim":
may say "this analogue docks here"; may NOT order candidates by
1-2 kcal/mol
- all four pose routes are closed, so the remaining lever is a scoring
metric less pose-sensitive than a point-charge interaction energy --
not another protocol change
The distinction that survives and is worth keeping: geometric selection
and energetic selection are different claims. Docking reliably puts a
near-native pose SOMEWHERE in its set (M9: 20/20 within 5 A). It does
not reliably put it first, and its ranking carries no information about
the xtb energy.
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…a campaign
The cost section covered the quantum tiers and said nothing about the
four stages a substitution campaign spends its first hour on. MEASURED
on danuglipron (73 proposals, 8 substituent groups), min of 3-5 reps:
enumerate 2.8 ms / proposal
relative descriptors 1.7 ms / proposal
embed (ETKDG+MMFF) 214 ms / proposal <- 94% of the cheap half
tox alerts 9.4 ms / molecule
tox catalog build 47 ms ONE-OFF
For 1000 analogues the entire pre-docking half is ~3.8 minutes. Nothing
upstream of docking is worth optimizing at campaign scale.
THE RESULT THAT INVERTS THE INTUITION. Composing these over a 10x-per-
tier funnel gives scale-invariant shares:
cheap 0.8% dock 73% xtb 4% DFT 22%
DFT is the most expensive thing per call by FIVE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE
(6e+2 s vs 1e-5 s) and is still only 22% of the campaign, because the
funnel has cut the population 100x before it runs. Docking is 73%: cheap
per pose, run on everything, 20 poses each. Optimizing the DFT tier --
the instinctive target -- can win at most 22%.
This is M11's conclusion reached from the other direction ("the funnel
spent 2.6x more than it needed to", fixed at tier 1, not tier 4). Two
independent routes to "tier 1 is the budget" is worth more than either.
Labelled honestly: per-stage costs MEASURED, funnel ratios are a design
choice, the 600 s DFT single point is from a different system. Change
the ratios and the shares move; the ORDERING is robust.
Also corrects a docstring claim found while measuring:
`RdkitAlertsProvider` says per-molecule construction "dominates the
runtime of a batch". The measured ratio is 5x (47 ms build vs 9.4 ms
per molecule), so per-molecule construction would cost 6x, not orders of
magnitude. Building once is still right; the stated reason overstates.
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- Around line 251-266: Recompute the campaign totals and scale-invariant shares
in the documented 10x-per-tier funnel using the established 1e-5 s/pose docking
benchmark and consistent units, including 20 poses per analogue. Update the
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…perseded Found by re-reading section (b) end to end to check the loop's own termination condition -- "does a QM/MM workflow know what to do for docking and catalyst optimization?". The procedure said yes; two paragraphs below it said no, and they contradicted each other inside one document. 1. C4's "MODE VECTORS are Rust-only" and the API caveat claiming `grep -c normal_modes crates/ferric-python/src/lib.rs` returns 0. Both stale: #97 exposed it. VERIFIED against origin/main -- `PyFrequencyResult.normal_modes` is a real #[pyo3(get)] accessor at lib.rs:1768, returning Vec<Vec<f64>> in the documented (mode, 3N) layout. C4 is complete from Python. Worth recording HOW this nearly re-confirmed itself: my first local check found no `normal_modes` on the loaded extension and appeared to validate the stale caveat. The .so symlinked into .venv points at the MAIN checkout's target/release, so a worktree tests whatever that build has. The source on main was right all along. That failure mode is now noted inline, because the next person re-checking this will hit it the same way. 2. "C3 does not exist ... any catalyst workflow must either import the TS from another code or wait for a saddle search." Superseded by ferric_scf::saddle::find_saddle and examples/qmmm_saddle.rs. The import-and-verify route is NOT deleted from the text: it remains a perfectly good option and the cheaper one when a TS is in hand. It is just no longer the only one. With these, both decision procedures -- G0-G4 for docking, C0-C5 for catalyst -- are free of blockers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes the coverage table. The three gaps this session filled:
transition state P-RFO search (was the only missing CAPABILITY)
costs 4 cheap stages measured; campaign shares composed
visualization site_substituent_heatmap, pose_ensemble,
liability_profile -- tox was the last use case
with code and cost but nothing to look at
Adds the caveat that matters more than the table: "has a plot" is not
"has a trustworthy answer". The binding-energy row has both a plot and a
cost and still cannot produce a RANKING -- all four pose protocols are
closed (M4-M13) and the best available ddE noise is ~4.07 kcal/mol
against effects of 1-2. site_substituent_heatmap(noise_floor=) greys out
every cell inside that limit so a figure cannot imply otherwise.
Also points at the campaign-level cost shares rather than the per-item
costs, since the per-call number is what makes people optimize DFT (22%)
instead of docking (73%).
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The note carried a survey table marking transition state as a GAP, a section headed "THE GAP", and a line saying the energy-profile plot is what a TS search "would report against once it exists" -- all written BEFORE the P-RFO work landed the same day, and all sitting above the completed coverage table added minutes ago. A document that contradicts itself is worse than either half alone, because a reader takes whichever they hit first. The survey and the dependency sketch are KEPT -- the sketch is what the implementation followed, step for step -- and relabelled as the analysis that preceded the fix rather than a live gap. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The format table said what can enter and nothing about what it costs,
which is the half a pipeline planner needs. MEASURED, min of 1-3 reps,
single-threaded:
xyz -> Molecule (71 atoms) 0.3 ms
SMILES -> 3-D (from_smiles, ETKDG+MMFF) 8.5 ms
PDB -> PocketCharges (7LCJ, 6458 charges) 2.66 s
Four orders of magnitude apart, and the ordering is the point: the PDB
path is ~300x SMILES and ~9000x an xyz read. It is also a ONE-OFF per
target -- PocketCharges is derived once and reused across the ensemble,
which is why the type exists -- so 2.66 s amortises to nothing over a
campaign and is a real cost for a one-molecule run.
Also flags a discrepancy rather than hiding it: from_smiles measures
8.5 ms here against 214 ms/proposal in the cheap-stage table. Same ETKDG
machinery, ~25x apart, because a drug-sized analogue is much harder to
embed than the small test molecule timed here. The note says to quote
214 ms for campaign planning.
AND a refusal worth meeting in a doc rather than in an error message:
read_structure REJECTS a crystal PDB with "no hydrogens". That is
correct -- a PDB from the PDB has none, and treating it as a QM molecule
would hand the solver a species that does not exist. A receptor goes
through derive_pocket_charges (which protonates via pdb2pqr), not
read_structure. The error names the problem; the two paths are still
easy to confuse on first use.
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…able
The note costs every method thoroughly and never says which to REACH
FOR. This adds that, with the column that actually decides it: the
RESOLUTION each method delivers on this campaign. A method that is cheap
and cannot answer your question is not a bargain.
Eleven rows, every number already measured elsewhere in this note or in
RESULTS.md. The two worth reading together:
where does this ligand sit? Vina dock 0.95 A redock USE IT
which pose is best? Vina score r = +0.461, 4/20 DO NOT TRUST
Same tool, opposite verdicts. Docking generates the right answer among
its candidates and cannot pick it out -- not a defect to fix, the
empirical reason tiers 2-4 exist.
And the row with no method at all:
which analogue binds better by 1-2 kcal/mol?
-> ddE noise 4.07 kcal/mol at best (M4-M13)
-> NO METHOD QUALIFIES
Every other row is a green light. That one is not, and no amount of
tier-4 DFT fixes it, because the error lives in the pose ensemble rather
than the electronic structure. Stating it as a table row rather than a
caveat buried three sections down is the point: this is the table
someone consults when deciding what to run.
Also records "which two minima does it connect?" as NOT AVAILABLE (no
IRC), so the gap is visible next to the capabilities rather than only in
section 4's scope list.
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The note's "what is still NOT settled" listed one route: a scorer less
pose-sensitive than the point-charge interaction energy. M14 measured it
on the same 19 docked poses, comparing coefficient of variation
(dimensionless, so comparable across scales):
vina_score CV 0.071 Spearman vs pose_fit -0.202 (p=0.41)
pose_fit CV 0.315 reference
prescreen CV 2.955 Spearman +0.353 (p=0.14)
prescreen is 9.4x WORSE. Vina looks 4.4x smoother and does not track
pose_fit at all -- smooth because insensitive, not because better.
So no scorer in this repo is less pose-sensitive, and the remaining
route is one pose-averaged BY CONSTRUCTION (FEP, or an ML affinity model
trained on ensembles) rather than a single-pose energy. That is outside
this campaign, and saying so is more useful than leaving the lever
listed as open.
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An 1100-line note with ONE python block. A reader learned what the
pipeline does and what every stage costs, and had nothing to copy.
Four snippets covering the non-pocket half: any input format -> Molecule,
enumerate analogues, gate relative to the parent, liability flags. Every
one was EXECUTED on 2026-09-19 and carries its real output; none is
illustrative.
Two details the verified output makes visible that prose kept losing:
- props[0] is the PARENT, and relative_descriptors against itself
returns exactly (-0.0, 0.0, 0.0). That is the anchor working -- the
parent rides every stage so scores can be ddE -- and it looks like a
bug until you see the zeros.
- RdkitAlertsProvider is built ONCE (47 ms) and reused (9.4 ms per
molecule), with the measured numbers inline rather than in a cost
table three sections away.
Also carries forward the read_structure refusal (a crystal PDB has no
hydrogens; a receptor goes through derive_pocket_charges) at the point
where someone would otherwise hit it.
Ends by pointing at "WHICH METHOD FOR WHICH QUESTION" before anyone
ranks with the output: the pipeline will happily emit a ddE ordering the
measurements do not support, and the quickstart is exactly where a new
user would form that expectation.
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Rule 2 said the unit is the (substituent, SITE) pair and left it there,
as though the pipeline could express it. M15 measured that the cheap
gate cannot.
CF3 9 sites -> 1 descriptor tuple
CN 9 sites -> 1
F 9 sites -> 1
Inherent: MW, cLogP and TPSA are whole-molecule sums over atoms and
fragment types, and constitutional isomers share both. Verified on
ortho/meta/para fluorobenzoic acid -- bit identical on all three. No
change to relative_descriptors alters that.
So the two axes fail for DIFFERENT reasons and both fail:
substituent axis answerable relative descriptors discriminate
site axis NOT cheap tier is blind (M15),
expensive tier is noise-limited (M4-M14)
"What the pipeline may and may not claim" now has two may-nots. The new
one is first because it is the one a reader is most likely to get wrong:
a ranked substituent table looks like it also says where to put the
group, and it does not.
Practical consequence stated rather than implied: rank SUBSTITUENTS
cheaply, treat placement as a question for chemistry knowledge or an
experiment. Seeing a site needs a POSITIONAL descriptor (3-D shape,
per-atom charge, a QM property at the site) -- an addition to cost, not
a fix to apply.
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The catalyst procedure said C3 was available and pointed at a Rust function. The whole tools/ pipeline is driven from Python, so a workflow could COUNT imaginary frequencies (run_frequencies, #97) and could not SEARCH for the saddle they describe -- C3 existed in a language the pipeline does not speak. `ferric.run_saddle(...)` -> `SaddleResult` closes that, with `is_transition_state()` as a method so `converged` alone cannot be misread as a transition state. Records the verified behaviour that makes it safe to expose: the refusal crosses the FFI boundary with its reason intact. H2 at 0.74 A returns "the projected Hessian at the starting geometry has NO negative eigenvalue (lowest = 9.612869e-1)" rather than an opaque failure -- a Python caller gets the reason and the remedy. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The catalyst steps landed one at a time across several PRs, and the failure mode is a procedure that READS as complete while one step lives only in Rust. That happened twice here -- C3 until run_saddle was bound, and C4's mode vectors until #97, after which this document carried a stale "MODE VECTORS are Rust-only" caveat for a day. Now asserted by running it, not by reading the source: C0/C1 ferric.QmmmSystem C2 ferric.run_optimize_qmmm C3 ferric.run_saddle C4 ferric.run_frequencies (count AND mode vectors, 1x6 = 3N) C5 arithmetic on C2/C3 energies Pinned by crates/ferric-python/tests/test_saddle.py and mutation-tested (renaming a checked attribute fails it, so it is not a tautology over hasattr). It asserts REACHABILITY only; each step has its own correctness tests. What it catches is a step quietly leaving the language tools/ is written in -- which is the thing that actually happened, twice. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
G(a) carried a "blocking question before any of this is coded": decide
the pose treatment -- ensemble, Boltzmann weight, best-N -- because
per-pose sd is 29 kcal/mol and funnel.py keys one row per MOLECULE.
All five candidate treatments have now been measured (M4-M14):
more poses, averaged 4.07 kcal/mol 16x the 0.25 gap
relax in field then average ~4.1 ~16x
dock then average ~4.1 ~16x
select the top-docked pose 40.66 163x
a different scorer 4.68 best 19x
So the answer is "none of them", and funnel.py:162 is not the blocker it
was written up as -- no treatment the data structure could express
resolves a 1-2 kcal/mol substituent effect.
The consequence for the procedure: G2 is the last step whose output is
trustworthy. Its own "STOP HERE if you only need a coarse sort" becomes
the recommendation rather than an option, and G4's dG_bind difference is
reportable only for gaps outside the measured noise (>~5 kcal/mol), not
for lead optimisation.
This does NOT weaken G0-G3. The pose is found reliably (M9, 0.95 A
redock) and the coarse sort works. It bounds what G4 may CLAIM, which is
the half that was unbounded.
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The model `2*6N + n_steps` had a measured multiplier and an unmeasured
multiplicand -- one gradient, borrowed from a 71-atom DFT single point on
a different system. Measured directly at three sizes, RHF/STO-3G:
N=5 methane 22 ms
N=8 ethane 29 ms
N=11 propane 66 ms
Last-two exponent p = 2.58, labelled INDICATIVE: three points is not a
scaling measurement, and the tail was fitted rather than the whole
series because a global fit averages in the flat N=5->8 start.
Projecting t(N) = t(11)*(N/11)^2.58:
N=11 steps=30 162 grads 0.2 min
N=20 steps=30 270 grads 1.4 min
N=20 steps=100 340 grads 1.8 min
N=40 steps=30 510 grads 15.7 min
THE FINDING: the step count barely matters and the BASIS dominates.
30 -> 100 steps at N=20 moves the total 26%; N=20 -> 40 moves it 11x.
And every row is STO-3G, the cheapest basis there is -- a real catalyst
at def2-SVP or better is orders above. The table is the N-SCALING SHAPE,
not wall times.
Practical guidance the model was missing: size the QM region first (C0
already says it "sets the cost" -- this is by how much), and do not
spend effort shaving P-RFO steps.
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"funnel.py cannot express an ensemble, and with averaging restored it
needs to" was listed as an open blocker. Whether it is worth building
depends on the resolution wanted, and that is measurable (sd = 33.06,
M14's 19 docked poses):
n= 1 ddE noise 46.75 187x the 0.25 kcal/mol gap
n= 15 12.07 48x
n= 100 4.68 19x
n=1000 1.48 6x
2-sigma on 0.25 kcal/mol needs ~140,000 poses per candidate. No
reachable n gets there, so ensemble support is NOT a blocker for lead
optimisation -- building it would be real engineering that buys nothing
at the resolution that matters.
It IS worth building for COARSE questions. Separating a 15 kcal/mol
control from the parent needs a handful of poses, and that is precisely
the gate the campaign failed at n=1 (v1's selection-bias artifact, where
a min-over-6 was compared against a single committed pose).
So: build it for gates, not for rankings, and size n from the table
rather than from intuition. That turns an open item into a decision with
a number attached, which is more useful than either "blocked" or
"done".
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"No ranking validated end to end" sat as an open item without saying what would move it. VERIFIED: the repo contains no experimental affinity data at all -- grepped experiments/ and testdata/ for IC50/Ki/Kd/pChEMBL, zero hits. So it is blocked on DATA ACQUISITION, and no further measurement inside this campaign can advance it. That matters for deciding when to stop iterating: "how do we make this pipeline" is answered, "is its ranking right" is not, and the second cannot be answered here. States what it would take -- a congeneric series with measured relative affinities on this target, ~10+ compounds spanning >2 kcal/mol -- so the item is actionable by someone with access to that rather than a standing reproach. Until then the pipeline is a HYPOTHESIS GENERATOR, and the measured noise floors say how far to trust it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The method table had one row for GFN2-xTB, citing a 143 kcal/mol anion/neutral split as its accuracy. That gap is so large it says nothing about whether xtb can ORDER conformers a few kcal/mol apart -- which is what tier 3's "rank survivors" job actually is. Split into two rows, because the same tool gets opposite verdicts: how strained is this conformer? 143 kcal/mol split USE IT which conformer is lowest? Spearman 0.011 vs DFT DO NOT TRUST MEASURED (M16): 20 conformers, xtb-relaxed, DFT evaluated at the xtb-relaxed geometry so both tiers score the same structures. Spans 2.67 / 2.81 kcal/mol, MAE 0.825, rho = 0.011 (p = 0.96). This is now the third row-pair in the table where one tool is a green light for separation and a red light for ordering -- Vina for poses (M9/M13), xtb for conformers (M16). That is the hierarchy working as designed, and the table is where a reader will actually meet it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
It read "Tier 4 unvalidated -- M10 recorded it does not fit the funnel
as configured", quoting a section title that M10 ITSELF retracted on
2026-09-02. Checked against the code:
COST: resolved. 612.4 s (10.2 min), 18 iterations, converged, 71-atom
neutral acid at STO-3G/PBE. The ">57 min, did not finish" was memory
contention -- a 7.26 GB auto-budget against a ~9.5 GB need, paging until
the OOM killer fired -- not DFT cost.
THE 0-OF-5 SURVIVOR FAILURE: both causes fixed, and VERIFIED present
rather than assumed:
(a) the driver set net_charge=-1 on NEUTRAL structures, asking for an
electron that does not exist. Now deprotonates the STRUCTURE
(Isomer.deprotonated, model.py:44), with
test_deprotonation_conserves_electron_count pinning it.
(b) ring contractions that SEVER a ring produced fragment pairs. Now
rejected at enumeration (enumerate.py:82) and again at tier 1
(tiers.py:125).
What actually remains is narrower, and the note now says that instead:
tier 4 has not produced a survivor list end to end SINCE those fixes, so
"it works" rests on per-bug tests rather than a completed funnel run.
Dispersion (#99) is also unmerged, so a halogen/CF3 scan would be
missing its dominant attractive term.
A stale blocker is worse than no blocker: it makes work look unavailable
that is available, and it hides the smaller real gap behind a large
fictional one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commit corrected the stale "tier 4 does not fit" claim and
left one real gap: nothing had run the whole stack SINCE the two fixes,
so "it works" rested on per-bug tests.
That gap is closed. The full FF -> xtb -> DFT funnel now runs in
tools/pipeline/tests/test_golden_path_smoke.py:
FORCE_FIELD 3 -> 3 failed 0
SEMIEMPIRICAL 3 -> 2 failed 0
QUANTUM 2 -> 1 failed 0 <- used to be 0 out
survivor: CC(=O)O dft = -225.757 Ha
~1.7 s, fast-tier cheap, and mutation-tested against the exact M10
failure mode: making tier 4 fail every candidate fails the test, so it
catches the regression it was written for rather than merely asserting
that a funnel ran.
What is genuinely left, stated precisely so it is not mistaken for the
old blocker: dispersion (#99) is unmerged, so a halogen/CF3 scan would
still be missing its dominant attractive term; and no tier-4 number has
been checked against an external reference IN THIS PIPELINE. ferric's
DFT is separately validated against PySCF to ~2e-8 Ha, but that is the
solver, not the funnel's use of it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The MEASURED table lists two tier-4 points:
96.1 s @ 32 atoms
612.4 s @ 71 atoms, STO-3G/PBE
Neither row said which BASIS, and they differ -- in the unhelpful
direction. The 32-atom point is def2-SVP (~450 bf); the 71-atom point is
STO-3G (~234 bf). The BIGGER system used the SMALLER basis.
Anyone deriving a scaling law from the pair gets p = 2.32, which
UNDERSTATES pure N-scaling because part of the size increase was paid
for by a cheaper basis. Two sequential numbers in a cost table are an
invitation to fit them, so the rows now name their bases and the text
says explicitly not to.
Cross-check: an N-sweep at FIXED basis (RHF/STO-3G alkanes, 2026-09-19)
gives a tail exponent of 2.58. The two agree within ~0.3, which is
reassuring about both, but only the fixed-basis number is a scaling
MEASUREMENT. The table rows are two independent cost POINTS.
Found by consistency-checking the cost section's claims against each
other rather than against reality -- a cheap audit that is worth
repeating whenever a table grows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commit flagged the two tier-4 cost anchors as confounded
(different bases) and said fitting them "UNDERSTATES pure N-scaling".
That was reasoning, not measurement. Measured it:
route exponent fixed basis?
the two anchor rows 2.32 NO
PBE/STO-3G N-sweep (new) 2.32 yes
RHF/STO-3G N-sweep 2.58 yes
The fixed-basis DFT sweep gives EXACTLY what the confounded pair gives.
So the confound is real but small -- it moves the answer less than the
RHF-vs-DFT difference does, and my "understates" was directionally
asserted rather than shown. p ~ 2.3-2.6 is the honest band.
The rows still name their bases and the text still says to prefer the
fixed-basis numbers, but now because the AGREEMENT is what makes the
confounded pair usable, not because the pair is misleading.
Also names a measurement artifact rather than burying it: C1 came in at
5.30 s against C2's 0.37 s -- first-call warm-up (basis parse, grid
construction), not chemistry. Tail-fitting excludes it automatically,
which is exactly why the repo protocol says to fit the tail rather than
the whole series.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
"DFT costs ~1000x" appeared TWICE as a STOP-HERE decision criterion, and
was never measured -- the table's 0.5 s and 96-612 s rows came from
different systems, so their quotient meant nothing.
MEASURED on the SAME molecules (GFN2-xTB relax vs PBE/STO-3G point):
ethane N= 8 0.024 s 0.397 s 16x
butane N=14 0.044 s 1.374 s 31x
hexane N=20 0.077 s 3.619 s 47x
The ratio GROWS as N^1.17, because DFT scales ~N^2.3 while xtb is much
flatter. Projecting: 81x at N=32, 206x at danuglipron's 71 atoms, and
1000x only around N=274 -- roughly 4x larger than anything this pipeline
runs.
So the figure overstated by ~5x at the scale that matters. THE DECISION
DOES NOT CHANGE: 200x is still a decisive reason to stop at tier 3 for a
coarse sort. What changes is that someone budgeting a campaign from the
number is now right rather than out by 5x.
Corrected in all three places it appeared, and the remaining mentions
are inside the new section that explains where 1000x does hold.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cost table's only tier-1 row was "exhaustiveness 32, ~2 min/ligand"
-- the setting M11 says NOT to use. Across an 8x range of exhaustiveness
the mean redock RMSD moved 0.097 A, SMALLER than the 0.131 A
between-seed SEM, and ex=32 had the WORST mean of the four levels tried.
So the table advertised a figure 6.8x too expensive for no accuracy.
Added the recommended setting with M11's measurement:
ex=4, cpu=0 (12 cores) 26.4 s/ligand
ex=4, cpu=1 (1 core) 109.0 s/ligand
Also recomputed the campaign shares, which I had first derived from a
~20 s/ligand ESTIMATE:
cheap dock xtb DFT total (N=1000)
~20 s estimate 0.8% 73% 4% 22% 7.6 h
MEASURED 26.4 s 0.7% 79% 3% 18% 9.3 h
The correction STRENGTHENS the conclusion: docking is 79% of a campaign
and DFT 18%, so optimizing the DFT tier wins at most 18%.
Kept the parallel-efficiency note where a reader budgeting tier 1 will
meet it: giving up 11 of 12 cores costs 4.1x, so Vina's internal
parallelism runs at 34% and fan-out across ligands only wins above ~4
workers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The coverage table said transition-state finding had a plot (energy_profile). It has one that draws a reaction PATH -- but a TS search produces an imaginary MODE, a 3N displacement vector, and nothing could show whether it displaces the reacting atoms. That is not a nicety: C4 is explicitly two-part, and "exactly one imaginary frequency" is necessary and NOT sufficient. A methyl rotor gives one too. `imaginary_mode` closes it, so the row now names both plots and what each is for. Also updates the campaign shares to the measured ones. The 73%/22% split came from a ~20 s/ligand docking ESTIMATE; M11's measured 26.4 s at exhaustiveness 4 gives 79%/18%, which strengthens the conclusion that tier 1 is the budget. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Correcting the campaign shares to the MEASURED 79%/18% updated the table and left the three sentences underneath still saying 73% and 22% -- ten lines below a table that says otherwise. A reader takes whichever they hit first, and the prose is what gets quoted. Found by grepping the file for its own superseded numbers after the correction, which is the check worth running every time a figure changes: `grep -E '73%|22%'` should return ONLY the row explicitly labelled as the old estimate. It now does. Same class as the three stale claims this session already turned up -- the 1000x tier ratio, the retracted tier-4 blocker, and the ex=32 default. A number that points the right way gets no scrutiny, and an updated table does not update the paragraph that cites it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s nothing
"MMFF94 ~1 ms/pose" cited `tiers.py:12` -- which is the same doc
comment. A circular citation, never a measurement. It also described a
single MMFF point while `tier2_forcefield` does embed + OPTIMIZE.
MEASURED:
ethanol 9 atoms 2.2 ms
acetanilide 19 atoms 8.2 ms
drug-like 34 atoms 21.6 ms
Tail exponent 1.66 -> ~73 ms at danuglipron's 71 atoms, about 20x the
claimed figure.
AND THE CONCLUSION IS UNCHANGED. Tier 2 runs on the ~10% surviving
docking, so at N=1000 it is 0.4% of the campaign against docking's 78%.
Both halves are recorded on purpose. The number was wrong and is now
right; the DECISION it feeds was never affected. Marking it
decision-neutral means the next person who notices the discrepancy does
not have to re-measure it to discover it does not matter -- a wrong
number worth fixing once is not worth fixing twice.
This is the sixth stale figure in this file traced to its source this
session. Distinctive here: the citation pointed at a doc comment rather
than a measurement, which reads as sourced. Worth checking what a
`tiers.py:NN` reference actually contains before trusting it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three rows in the MEASURED cost table cited `tiers.py:11/13/14` and
`vina_dock.py:7`. Every one of those lines is the module header's own
cost table -- the citations pointed at prose, and the golden path and
the docstring were quoting each other.
Two failure modes in one:
1. A `file.py:NN` reference survives the check "is this sourced?",
which is how three unmeasured figures sat in a table headed
MEASURED.
2. Line numbers ROT. Correcting the tier-2 line shifted the numbering,
so :13 and :14 came to point at the wrong rows entirely.
All three are now measured THROUGH THE TIER FUNCTIONS -- which is the
relevant cost, not the underlying library's:
tier 9 atoms 19 atoms 34 atoms
tier2_forcefield 2.2 ms 8.2 ms 21.6 ms
tier3_gfn2 0.152 s 0.050 s
tier4_dft 0.66 s 8.7 s (STO-3G)
Tier 3's old "~0.5 s" was the right order; tier 2's "~1 ms" was 20x low.
Both were unmeasured -- the difference is luck, not diligence, and the
note says so.
The superseded ex=32 row is kept struck through, since its ~2 min is
still what `tiers.py` documented for weeks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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1509 lines of measurement that lived only in the untracked
wiki/tree — local-only files that die with the machine. Every number was expensive to produce and none of it was recoverable.Why
site/src/reference/and not un-ignoringwiki/wiki/was deliberately moved out of git on 2026-08-07 and purged from all history on 2026-08-21. Un-ignoring it would reverse a decision someone made on purpose, and it holds 228 files / 11 MB nobody asked to publish. These four are the ones written this session.Cross-references rewritten from
wiki/<file>.mdto./<file>.md; verified zero remainingwiki/ordocs/paths, which would have been dead links.What's in them
pipeline-golden-path.mdsubstitution-pipeline.mdci-timing-analysis.mdpipeline-survey.mdWhy commit rather than summarise
They record retractions, which is the part a summary loses:
tail -8read as a full listingEach is a case where a first answer looked clean and was wrong. Keeping the corrected number without the reason invites the same mistake again.
Every claim is labelled MEASURED (with source) or ESTIMATED (with reasoning) — the TOC section says so, so a reader knows what they're getting.
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