real runs showed the model copies the whole numbered line including the
trailing (w34) weight annotation, so strict-skip rejected ~91% of picks
and the llm was paralyzed. strip the weight suffix before comparing. also
nudge the prompt to stress-test repeated submissions (idempotency).
drop the seeded-root call for a setup-only precedence path, render a
numbered weighted candidate list, pin a reasoning-first choice schema,
strict-skip when chosen_action does not echo the numbered entry, and let
the model supply typed values (corpus fallback when empty).
pj