Admission via thin wrapper (vendor shim unmodified; no shim config knob exists).
Gate re-run clean at every depth with usage honest; 16q32k warm 2,033 ms;
4x concurrent 16q32k peak 15,566 MiB vs 16,847 budget; boot matrix replaces the
unmeasured 280 s figure (cold median 153.6 s, warm-cache saves nothing, eager
slower). Wyrd itemised: 8 diffs, h2o net -2. h2o passes every Supersede clause
under the accepted 32,000-token refusing contract; seat swap is the operator's
call.
First bench-first run (prereg brokkr-smithy 2e0539f). H2O-lightning-4b is a
short-route candidate: public 205, battery CI lower bound +0.0023, fits the
GPU 1 budget at every shape — but its shipped shim silently trims state at
~32k and fails the long-input gate by the letter. Clef-flash lateral in both
precisions (Wyrd -0.0333 in both; bf16 does not fit at rest). RSI-Jev v6.1
loses on decision quality (public -23, Wyrd -0.0548). INC holds the seat.
Torn down; weights kept (model-runtime 116 GB).
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