Measured the top-candidate score distribution on wave Y's 67 gaps: min 0.009 / p50 0.08 / p90 0.26 /
max 0.53. Hand-checking the low half showed generic co-occurrence -- 'delay slot' matching every
section that mentions a delay slot -- not real answers. Emitting those is worse than emitting
nothing: an empty list costs a reader nothing, a plausible-but-wrong section costs them a read. The
tool now reports 14 confident candidates instead of 51 mostly-noise ones.
Every harvest so far spent most of its agents rediscovering that a gap was already answered: 61/71
(T), 44/64 (U), 76/67 (V), 41/68 (W), 56/63 (X). That majority verdict is the flywheel working, but
paying an adversarial verifier to reach it is waste -- the check is a text search, and a text search
does not need a model. gap_triage scores each gap against all 441 cookbook sections by IDF-weighted
distinctive-term overlap (file:line cites, section refs, register names, MIPS mnemonics, pass names)
and hands the reader its top candidates to open FIRST.
Deliberately dumb and deliberately non-authoritative: no embeddings, no model, and a candidate is a
starting point rather than a verdict -- its failure mode is a suggestion the reader ignores, not a
refusal that discards work (R39). R32: every gap appears in the output exactly once, asserted.
On wave Y's 67 gaps: 51 get a candidate section, 16 get none. Built during a four-round API outage
that blocked the harvest itself -- the retrieval half of the harvest needed no agents all along.
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