Second critical review pass found 10 more issues, 3 critical.
All addressed:
CRITICAL:
- §8.2 (3.1): ALPHA_SPLIT cold-start was unspecified — formula
produces 0/0=0, not the claimed 0.5 sentinel. Now: ISV slot
initialized DIRECTLY to 0.5 in trainer constructor; formula
takes over only after both grad-norm EMAs accumulate N_warm
non-zero observations
- §9.2 (3.5.4): plasticity now performs TWO-STEP recovery:
(1) Flat all positions at fire bar (close current losing trade),
(2) engage warmup cooldown forcing Hold for M_warm bars.
Without step 1, forced Hold preserved the losing position
that drove drawdown for the entire 200-bar warmup
- §12.2: stale "5-10%" baseline cost estimate updated to "15-25%"
matching §6.4 (was contradicting earlier amendment)
IMPORTANT:
- §9.2 (3.5.5): DD_TRAJECTORY_DECREASING threshold 0.02 hardcoded
→ ISV-driven via new slot DD_TRAJECTORY_FLOOR (slot 441,
25th percentile of running dd_pct distribution)
- §8.2 (3.5): HOLD_FLOOR_ALPHA tracked from rolling 95th percentile
of |Q_dir| (NOT running max — was outlier-ratchet vulnerable)
- §9.2 (3.5.3): MEDIAN_STREAK_LENGTH formerly undefined in cooldown
K formula → ISV-driven via new slot 442, running median of
observed loss-streak lengths via two-heap algorithm
- §9.2 (3.5.2): asymmetric reward × α split compound interaction
explicitly stated as intentional with POS_CAP as binding ceiling
NIT:
- §7.4: "2C: Group 3 (4 tests)" → "(5 tests)" (was off-by-one
after 2.22 added)
- §9.2 (3.5.4): Xavier → Kaiming-He init for advantage head reset
(architecturally appropriate for ReLU-gated activation chain)
ISV_TOTAL_DIM: 441 → 443 post-SP15 (added DD_TRAJECTORY_FLOOR
and MEDIAN_STREAK_LENGTH at slots [441..443)). 46 SP15 slots
total. File: 799 → 811 lines.
Spec is now consistent end-to-end with no contradictions between
sections, no hardcoded values violating feedback_isv_for_adaptive_
bounds, and no underspecified load-bearing parameters.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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