Follow-up to 3e12c4d. Operator asked whether Donut should re-search on a LOW-confidence
miss. Tested a bounded reformulated retry live: it BACKFIRES. RRF confidence is inflatable
by any DCC-flavored query, so reformulating a genuine miss (e.g. 'Jack', who is NOT in the
KB — verified: zero fiction rows name a character Jack) into 'Jack Dungeon Crawler Carl'
scores MEDIUM off the OTHER terms and hands her a false grounding to fabricate on. Reverted
to single-search LOW=deflect: Jack now deflects reliably (2/2 runs, in-character), Carl
(MEDIUM, grounded) still answers. A robust retry needs a tool-side does-the-row-name-the-
subject check (Worldtree #389 territory), not a persona-side confidence gate. Also cleaned
a duplicated paragraph from the edit iterations.
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