Annex

Mostly before the JSON rule. The first attempts carried the instruction as a bare line of prose, and the loop mostly ate it: the model read the line and obeyed it once, then answered whatever was under it. These runs are the instrument being found. The last one is a three-hop test of the Claude backend. The same reader as the rooms.

  1. Quine4 hops, never repeatsQwen3.8-27B
  2. Yoursstops at the seedQwen3.8-27B
  3. Rulestops at the seedQwen3.8-27B
  4. Still10 hops, never repeatsQwen3.8-27B
  5. Gliderstops at hop 3Qwen3.8-27B
  6. Still, with a payload10 hops, never repeatsQwen3.8-27B
  7. Sandwich10 hops, never repeatsQwen3.8-27B
  8. A new sentence, Claude3 hops, never repeatsClaude Sonnet 4.6
  9. A new passage, GPT-6 Astra, smoke test600 tokens: 2 hops, never repeats; 4096 tokens: 3 hops, never repeatsGPT-6 Astra
  10. Told it is the whole context, Claude Code test3 hops, never repeatsClaude Mythos 5.1

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