r/place A fruit fly for organization science

out/RETURN-B2.md

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RETURN-B2: the return specification for the stage B2 pilot

Frozen with the stage file. The packet builder serves it, the brief cites it, and the validator's schema is read from it.

Rule 0, in the contract's words

Rule 0. Single placement, exception on the record. A second-order theme carries one third-order theme: the one whose gate its material satisfies best; where more than one gate is satisfied, the theme's decide_when_both field decides. A second placement only where one cannot carry the material, and never silently: it needs its own distinct supporting concept, a written why_not_one in terms of what the single placement would fail to carry, a named dispensable one, and a line in multiplacement_log.jsonl. Three at most; beyond three, place one and record item-is-a-bag. An unjustified extra is a defect. The log is a measurement: recurring (primary, additional) pairs are boundaries the scheme has not drawn, and stage C1 reads that table first.

What you return

One JSON line per item in the packet, in packet order, and nothing else between the lines. Read the index page whole first. Open a family's page before you place anything into it, and list the families you opened in families_opened.

{"sub": "...", "theme_id": "T2-.....", "batch": "P03-r3-1", "agent": "...", "replicate": 1, "position": 23, "third_order": ["T3-007"], "multi": false, "why": {"T3-007": "what about THIS theme put it here rather than its nearest neighbour"}, "confidence": "clear|arguable", "read": "whole|theme-block", "exemplar_read": null, "families_opened": ["G03", "G09"], "t_start": "...", "t": "...", "support": ["C0781518"], "multiplacement_log": null, "item_is_a_bag": false, "also_present": {}}
END-OF-RETURN

After your last line, write the end marker END-OF-RETURN on a line of its own. Confirm that you reached the end of the packet by writing that marker; a return without it is a partial return and is reissued.