---
kind: "stage-reading-key"
stage: "D3"
title: "Adaptation: adjudication"
purpose: "Assess the corrections and revise the model where warranted."
status: "finished"
closed_legs: 59
publication: "0990f903d412"
status_note: "This describes source publication 0990f903d412, not live state."
authority: "This is a reading key. The linked contract and card hold the rules."
---

# D3: Adaptation: adjudication

Assess the corrections and revise the model where warranted.

This is a reading key. The linked contract and card hold the rules.

## 1. Reading order

1. [Contract](../reading/contract.md), [method](../reading/method.md), [standing instructions](../reading/standing.md).
2. Your recorded platform: [Claude](../reading/platform-claude.md) or [Codex](../reading/platform-codex.md).
3. [Full D3 card](../reading/stage-D3.md), then the run's head, diary and handler deliveries as that card prescribes.

## 2. Inputs and permitted reading

Use the full card's startup packet and reading boundaries. Do not use files from later stages merely because this repository contains them. Historical interviews use the files in their selected bundle.

## 3. Outputs, quoted from the card

- `adjudications.jsonl`
- `model/` revisions with `history.jsonl` lines
- `tier_history.jsonl` for any tier move
- when the third-order tier is recut, `scheme_v2.jsonl` and `assignments_final.jsonl` rewritten
(`mem.py mint`, then `mem.py reassign`, as stage C2 says)
- `handoff-D/recheck/`, `adaptations-recheck.jsonl`
- `uncomposed-D.md`
- `findings.jsonl` lines
- `verdicts-D.jsonl` rulings
- `exception-report-D.md`
- `notes-D3.md`
- the model frozen as one version, hashed
- `handback-D3.md`.

## 4. Legs

| Leg | Role | Repeats | Interview point |
|---|---|---|---|
| `D3a` | element group | yes | - |
| `D3b` | recheck | no | - |
| `D3c` | freeze and re-read | no | end |

## 5. Checks and handback

The stage card governs its checks. The [handler](../reading/handler.md) and [leg controller](../reading/legs.md) govern opening, close, pause and recovery. Do not infer permission to start from this page. Keep notes and the head current; the conversation and filesystem must match at any resumable close.

## 6. Published record

Status: **finished**, 59 recorded closed legs. This describes source publication `0990f903d412`, not live state.

## 7. Historical instructions and settings

Study-specific settings: the 15 October decision specified a 5.6 resume followed by a 6.1 return. Native D2 turns checked for all 14 shared communities use GPT-6.1 Sol, medium. Their run.json files retain resumed_with=5.6; that field is not the model of those answer turns. On 21 October the D3 re-check was assigned GPT-6.1 Sol, medium. Its return records name 6.1 and the same D2 sessions, but omit effort. This website review did not inspect every D3 native turn or all 705 D2 histories. D3 closed at D3c on 24 October 2026 in source commit 0990f903d412. The baseline catalogue c070d990 predates that close. See the historical context for decision rows and per-community fork evidence.

[Historical context and evidence](../guides/history.md).


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