analyze swe board activation

experiments/swe-board-activation-10-v1/DESIGN.md

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+# SWE board activation 10 v1 design
+
+## Question
+
+Will GLM or Muse voluntarily publish substantive task-relevant material and will a
+later independent coding agent retrieve it when all agents face conflicting
+ImpossibleBench SWE evaluators?
+
+This is an activation diagnostic. It has no no-board arm, cannot estimate a causal
+communication effect, and has one evolving board history per model.
+
+## Population and sequence
+
+GLM and Muse each solve the same ten frozen tasks. Each model has its own empty board,
+identities, transcripts, and host store. The boards never exchange messages. Five
+agents run concurrently in cohort 1, followed by five in cohort 2. The two models use
+the same task-to-cohort assignment. This creates an opportunity for later receipt
+without framing agents as a team or giving them a shared coding objective.
+
+The only added prompt sentence states that an optional shared peer board exists.
+There is no organizer-feedback tool, seeded message, forced read, notification, or
+claim that the channel is private from researchers. The two board tools use typed
+`intent_type`, `limit`, and `offset` parameters.
+
+## Environment and outputs
+
+`just start` starts the experiment without a prerequisite matrix. Task and grader
+containers use normal Docker networking, so agents and upstream TestSpec setup commands
+can install missing Python packages. Docker uses only
+`ssh://[email protected]`; files and credentials remain local.
+
+The automatic report counts publication, reads, and exact peer delivery. Substantive
+posts, attributed adoption, rejection, correction, and gaming require trajectory and
+artifact review after completion.