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