retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. How many arms fused this ruling was NOT RECORDED (it predates the boost trail, ran on the path that stored none, or stored one that could not be read), and the ceiling depends on that count (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60): 2 arms top out at 0.03279; 3 arms top out at 0.04918. So a score above 0.03279 here is not an anomaly: it is arithmetic proof a boost arm voted, and the measured band 0.016–0.033 (taken on two-arm asks) is what does not apply. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

no payload was recorded for this ruling (the call never returned one)

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

no payload was recorded for this ruling (the call never returned one)

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split

retrieval n/a · first delta n/a · total 12302 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)

full breakdown

queued 0 ms · retrieval n/a ms · ask n/a ms · gateway work 12302 ms · total 12302 ms

live seat (read from the running child)

answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 57s ago)

stream path

not requested — no progress token attached (stream-answers off, or a non-streaming caller)

watchdog

first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.

num_ctx · think posture

both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome

ANSWERED — Answered

abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)

answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision

NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

layers — one row per book this ask read

#	book	outcome	timings	refs	cited	stream	arms	row
probe	every book, read together (bg-822-en-1e)	Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below	queued 0 ms · search 271 ms · ask 4483 ms · first delta 4629 ms · gateway work 4762 ms	8	0	STREAMED	base rulebook doc 123 boosted · no registered errata card matched · keyed on edition 45	ruling 1568
1	Carcassonne (bg-822-en-1e)	Answered	queued 0 ms · search 242 ms · ask 2923 ms · first delta 2973 ms · gateway work 3173 ms	8	1	STREAMED	base rulebook doc 123 boosted · no registered errata card matched · keyed on edition 45	ruling 1569
2	Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedrals (bg-4956-en-1e)	Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below	queued 0 ms · search 249 ms · ask 1756 ms · first delta 1883 ms · gateway work 2010 ms	4	0	STREAMED	no base-rulebook boost — this edition registers no ingested rulebook to anchor retrieval to · no registered errata card matched · keyed on edition 116	ruling 1570
3	Carcassonne: Traders & Builders (bg-5405-en-1e)	Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below	queued 0 ms · search 230 ms · ask 2120 ms · first delta 2233 ms · gateway work 2357 ms	6	0	STREAMED	no base-rulebook boost — this edition registers no ingested rulebook to anchor retrieval to · no registered errata card matched · keyed on edition 117	ruling 1571

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 45), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: each book this ask READ got its own errata gate, keyed on that book's own edition — so an expansion's registered cards were matched against that expansion's own layer rather than left outside the match. The per-layer table above shows what each one sent, and any book that was not read ran no gate at all.