Plan 3 Task 6b.
Portfolio-state tail-append:
- PS_REGIME_SHIFT_BAR = 40 (hold_time of first detected regime shift, 0 if none)
- PS_STRIDE 40 → 41
- All 6 hardcoded-stride sites migrated in lockstep
Detector (experience_kernels.cu):
- Adaptive threshold = clamp(0.25 × |clamp(sharpe, -2, 2)|, 0.05, 0.5)
- Fires first bar where |regime_now - PS_PLAN_ENTRY_REGIME| > threshold
- First-shift-only (short-circuits on non-zero PS_REGIME_SHIFT_BAR)
- Uses new ISV_SHARPE_EMA_IDX = 22 macro in state_layout.cuh
Consumer (segment_complete block):
- bars_late_frac = clamp(bars_late / hold_time, 0, 1)
- penalty = shaping × conviction × bars_late_frac × |reward|
- All multiplicands except |reward| in [0,1]; max penalty = |reward|
- reward -= penalty; rc[5] -= penalty (cancels with B.2/C.4/D.4a at
other (i,t) slots; ISV[68] REWARD_BONUS_EMA shows net)
- Consumer resets PS_REGIME_SHIFT_BAR after use
**Iteration history.** First pass multiplied by ISV[Q_DIR_ABS_REF] (~5–50,
an absolute Q-magnitude) AND |reward| — produced penalties 5–50× the
reward, destabilising training (smoke: Return swings ±300–900%, Sharpe
oscillating wildly). Root cause: Q_DIR_ABS_REF is an absolute
magnitude, not a [0,1] coefficient; B.1 uses it as a DENOMINATOR to
normalize q_range, not as a multiplier on an already-unbounded signal.
Fix: drop q_scale, keep |reward| as the only unbounded factor. Smoke
now passes cleanly with fold-2 best Sharpe 117.92 (up from T6a's 100.10).
No new ISV slot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>