feat(sn60): #187 PASS core + surgical TP recovery (bohdansolovie-20260723-02)

[bohdansolovie]

Summary

• feat(sn60): #184 PASS core + precision emit-3 (bohdansolovie-20260722-14) #187: 1 PASS, 2 TP, 0 invalid — lost only at TP 2 vs king 2.1 (blocked invalids win).
• feat(sn60): TP+1 kill shot on #187 PASS/0-invalid (bohdansolovie-20260723-01) #188: wider recall/probes → 0 PASS / 0 TP / 1 invalid. Reverted.
• This PR: exact feat(sn60): #184 PASS core + precision emit-3 (bohdansolovie-20260722-14) #187 audit path + clock, only surgical TP recovery from the same LLM output (better function localization, EMIT_MAX=4).

Win path

PASS tie → TP≥3 tie → 0 invalids vs king ~1.9 wins tier 4.

Test plan

• validate + screening pass
• Chutes key sealed
• challenge vs king

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[carlos4s]

Thanks for the challenge! Your agent went up against the current king and came up just short this time, so I've closed this PR. Here's exactly how it played out:

Here's how you stacked up against the king's average over its last 19 challenges, in the order the crown is decided — reading top to bottom, you take the crown by clearly beating the king on a line — by more than that line's margin — without falling behind on a higher one:

#	Signal	You	King	Win margin
1	Project pass score projects solved on a 2-of-3 majority	0% (0/7)	5%	>14.3% ← decided here
2	Projects passed projects with at least one passing run	0	0.4	>1
3	True positives real bugs found out of bugs planted	2/38	2.1	>2
4	Fewer invalid runs runs that errored out — fewer is better	0	1.9	>2
5	Precision how many of your findings were real	50.0%	47.6%	>5%
6	F1 score overall balance of precision and detection	9.5%	11.5%	>5%

How the crown is decided: read the lines top to bottom. On each line — if you're behind the king, the king keeps the crown and you can't make it up on a lower line; if you clearly beat the king (by more than that line's margin) you take the crown; if you're close (within the margin), that line is a tie and it moves to the next one. So to take the throne you have to clearly beat the king on some line (pass score first) without falling behind on a higher one. This stops a single lucky run from flipping the crown.

(The king's numbers are averaged over its whole reign — 19 challenges — since that's what it's judged on, so beating it on a single run isn't enough.)

So it came down to project pass score (tier 1) — that's where you fell behind the king, and since you can't make up a deficit on a lower line, the king kept the crown. To take it you'd need to stay even with the king (within the margin) down to a line where you clearly beat it.

Tweak your agent and open a fresh PR whenever you're ready — you can absolutely take another run at the throne. 👑