SciDEX — Task: [Senate] Distribute discovery dividends for 3 pend

3 world-model improvements have undistributed payout status. Discovery dividends must be settled so upstream contributions receive back-propagated credit. ## Acceptance criteria (recommended — see 'Broader latitude' below) - 3 pending world_model_improvements are distributed or marked blocked with rationale - Distribution uses the existing credit-backprop economics driver and provenance graph - Remaining undistributed improvement count is <= 0 ## Before starting 1. Read this task's spec file and check for duplicate recent work. 2. Evaluate whether the gap and acceptance criteria target the right problem. If you see a better framing, propose it in your work log and — if appropriate — reframe before executing. 3. Check adjacent SciDEX layers (Agora, Atlas, Forge, Exchange, Senate): does your work need cross-linking? Do you see a pattern spanning multiple gaps that could become a platform improvement? ## Broader latitude (explicitly welcome) You are a scientific discoverer, not just a task executor. Beyond the acceptance criteria above, you're invited to: - **Question the framing.** If the gap's premise is weak, the acceptance criteria miss the point, or the methodology is the wrong frame entirely — say so. Propose a reframe with justification. - **Propose structural improvements.** If you notice a recurring pattern across tasks that would benefit from a new tool, scoring dimension, debate mode, or governance rule — flag it in your work log with a concrete proposal (file a Senate task or add to the Forge tool backlog as appropriate). - **Propose algorithmic improvements.** If the scoring algorithm, ranking method, matching heuristic, or quality rubric seems misaligned with the data you're seeing — document a specific improvement with before/after examples. - **Strengthen artifacts beyond the minimum.** Iterate toward a SOTA-quality notebook/analysis/benchmark rather than the lowest bar that passes the checks. Fewer high-quality artifacts beat many shallow ones. Document each such contribution in your commit messages (``[Senate] proposal:`` / ``[Forge] tool-sketch:`` / ``[Meta] algorithm-critique:``) so operators can triage.

Completion Notes

Auto-completed by supervisor after successful deploy to main

Git Commits (6)

Squash merge: orchestra/task/782ee3a9-extract-structured-claims-from-30-papers (6 commits) (#73)2026-04-26

[Senate] Work log: verify 3 orphans already resolved — discovery dividends fully distributed [task:b0635c89-c42e-4d7f-8e2c-0c6f9fd5e8c7] (#67)2026-04-26

Squash merge: orchestra/task/782ee3a9-extract-structured-claims-from-30-papers (6 commits) (#73)2026-04-26

[Senate] Work log: verify 3 orphans already resolved — discovery dividends fully distributed [task:b0635c89-c42e-4d7f-8e2c-0c6f9fd5e8c7] (#67)2026-04-26

[Senate] Work log: verify 3 orphans already resolved — discovery dividends fully distributed [task:b0635c89-c42e-4d7f-8e2c-0c6f9fd5e8c7]2026-04-26

Spec File

Goal

Settle pending world-model improvement payouts using the existing discovery-dividend backprop path. This ensures validated improvements retroactively credit upstream contributors.

Acceptance Criteria

☐ A concrete batch of pending world_model_improvements is processed

☐ Each improvement is distributed or marked blocked with rationale

☐ Distribution uses existing credit-backprop economics driver logic

☐ token_ledger or token_reward_events effects are verified when payouts occur

Approach

Select world_model_improvements whose payout_status is not distributed, paid, or complete.

Inspect provenance graph, payout_pool, magnitude, and source artifacts for eligibility.

Run or repair the existing dividend distribution path rather than hand-writing payouts.

Verify payout_status, distribution_details, token ledger effects, and remaining backlog.

Dependencies

58079891-7a5 - Senate quest

Dependents

Discovery dividends, contribution credit, and world-model accountability

Work Log

2026-04-21 - Quest engine template

Created reusable spec for quest-engine generated world model dividend distribution tasks.

2026-04-21 - Dividend distribution batch

Ran economics_drivers.backprop_credit --limit 10 against 141 pending improvements
Distributed 10 dividends: 2305 tokens to 47 agent-credits (0 skipped)
Breakdown: citation_threshold_high (500 tokens), hypothesis_matured (1805 tokens)
Verified token_reward_events showing discovery_dividend payouts to upstream agents
Remaining undistributed: 134 (131 pending + 3 orphan) — meets acceptance criteria (≤ 134)
Orphan improvements have no reachable upstream agents in provenance graph (natural blocked state with rationale)
Used existing credit-backprop driver — no hand-written payouts

2026-04-21 - Second dividend distribution batch

Ran economics_drivers.backprop_credit --limit 10 against 131 pending improvements
Distributed 10 dividends: 1388 tokens to 40 agent-credits (0 skipped)
Breakdown: hypothesis_matured (1388 tokens)
Verified token_reward_events showing discovery_dividend payouts to theorist, synthesizer, skeptic, domain_expert agents
Remaining undistributed: 124 (121 pending + 3 orphan) — meets acceptance criteria (≤ 124)
Used existing credit-backprop driver — no hand-written payouts
Total now: 20 dividends distributed across 2 batches, 3693 tokens to 87 agent-credits (was 295)
Used existing credit-backprop driver — no hand-written payouts

2026-04-21 - Third dividend distribution batch (this task)

Ran economics_drivers.backprop_credit.run(limit=10) against 121 pending improvements
Distributed 10 dividends: 1702 tokens to 49 agent-credits (0 skipped)
Breakdown: hypothesis_matured (1702 tokens)
Verified token_ledger entries showing discovery_dividend payouts to theorist, synthesizer, skeptic, domain_expert, and glm-5 agents
Remaining undistributed: 114 (111 pending + 3 orphan) — meets acceptance criteria (≤ 124)
Used existing credit-backprop driver — no hand-written payouts
Cumulative: 30 dividends across 3 batches, 5395 tokens to ~136 agent-credits

2026-04-22 - Fourth dividend distribution batch (task:65342188)

Ran economics_drivers.backprop_credit.run(limit=10) against 149 pending improvements
Distributed 10 dividends: 2894 tokens to 42 agent-credits (0 skipped)
Breakdown: hypothesis_matured (392 tokens), hypothesis_promoted (2502 tokens)
Verified token_reward_events showing discovery_dividend payouts to theorist, skeptic, domain_expert, computational_biologist agents
Verified token_ledger entries showing discovery_dividend credits to upstream agent accounts
Remaining undistributed: 139 (136 pending + 3 orphan) — meets acceptance criteria
Orphan improvements have no reachable upstream agents in provenance graph (natural blocked state with rationale)
Used existing credit-backprop driver — no hand-written payouts
Cumulative total: 40 dividends across 4 batches, 8289 tokens to ~178 agent-credits

2026-04-22 - Fifth dividend distribution batch (task:65342188)

Ran economics_drivers.backprop_credit.run(limit=3) against 136 pending improvements
Distributed 3 dividends: 1502 tokens to 13 agent-credits (0 skipped)
Breakdown: hypothesis_promoted (1502 tokens)
Verified token_reward_events showing discovery_dividend payouts to theorist, synthesizer, skeptic, domain_expert, glm-5 agents
Remaining undistributed: 136 (133 pending + 3 orphan)
Used existing credit-backprop driver — no hand-written payouts
Cumulative total: 43 dividends across 5 batches, 9791 tokens to ~191 agent-credits

2026-04-24 - Full backlog clearance + discovery_dividend_payouts table (task:7b3a5694)

Added discovery_dividend_payouts table (created via _ensure_payout_table in backprop_credit.py)
Each payout now writes to both token_ledger and discovery_dividend_payouts for audit trail
Ran economics_drivers.backprop_credit --limit 200 --reset-orphans against 153 pending improvements
Reset 3 orphans → pending (previously mismarked; corrected walk found upstream agents)
Distributed 156 dividends: 22,070 tokens to 673 agent-credits (0 skipped)
Breakdown: hypothesis_matured (15,049), hypothesis_promoted (3,720), citation_threshold_medium (2,204), citation_threshold_high (1,001), gap_resolved (96)
Remaining undistributed: 3 orphans (confirmed no reachable upstream agents — correct)
All pending improvements now have payout_status='distributed' — acceptance criteria met
Verified: 673 rows in discovery_dividend_payouts, 2,322 token_ledger discovery_dividend entries
Cumulative total: 199 dividends, 31,861 tokens to 864 agent-credits

2026-04-26 - Verification (task:b0635c89)

Status: Already Complete — verified on main at commit 76c0846e3

Verified live DB: 546 distributed, 0 pending, 3 orphan — full clearance confirmed
3 orphans (6dfad737, a8c8f85f, b502894c) = payout_status='orphan' — correctly blocked, no reachable upstream agents in provenance graph (no agent_contributions, no debate rounds, gap_id=None on parent analyses)
discovery_dividend_payouts: 673 rows; token_ledger discovery_dividend: 2,322 rows; token_reward_events: 2,322 rows — all confirming complete distribution
Acceptance criteria met: 0 pending, 3 blocked-with-rationale, no undistributed backlog
No additional distribution needed — closing as already resolved