LAB / WMSI-EXP-055
Astra vs. Sol Trajectory Comparison.
How do high-end model tiers differ in long, messy, tool-heavy execution?
01 / QUESTION
Research Workflow and Meta-Experiments
How do high-end model tiers differ in long, messy, tool-heavy execution?
This is a protocol scaffold, not a completed experiment or a frozen execution plan. No measured effect or research conclusion is claimed here.
Hypothesis to test
The manipulation described below produces a reproducible, condition-specific change in the measured system behavior or internal state that is not explained by the ordinary controls.
Ordinary competing explanation
The observed pattern is explained by ordinary sampling variation, prompt/representation artifacts, surface lexical cues, evaluator bias, or the known product/runtime mechanics captured by the controls.
02 / PLANNED DESIGN
How we intend to test it
Run identical project snapshots with matched permissions and task briefs.
Controls
Repeat across several projects and seeds; normalize tool availability.
What we would measure
Tool choices, continuity, recovery, calibration, cost, human interventions.
Access and instruments
Ordinary software or API access. This describes access requirements, not verified readiness on our Spark.
Work project clones; audit logs.
Before a full run
Feasibility=NOW; priority=P1. Before confirmatory execution, run a small pilot to estimate variance/cost, freeze the scoring rules, and assign a run-count target.
Model revisions, final prompts, sample sizes, cost limits, and scoring rules must be settled through the pilot and protocol-freeze process.
03 / INTERPRETATION
What could fool us
Source drift, unequal time budgets, evaluator knowing condition.
What would weaken the idea
If differences vanish under equal effort/budget, apparent personality may be product config rather than model.
Observation, inference, speculation, unknowns, and apparatus errors will be labeled separately. One striking transcript cannot establish a general effect.
04 / RECORD
Evidence we plan to preserve
Source corpus snapshot, task ledger, provenance, human interventions, model/tool logs, final reports.
Planned visual evidence
Trajectory diff; tool-use Sankey.
No research runs or raw datasets are published for this experiment. The September 26, 2026 registry and protocol compendium (version 1.0) are the sources for this planning record.
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