#!/usr/bin/env python3 """T14 EXPLORATORY (2026-07-23) — DEPTH STRUCTURE AS A FILL FILTER: the harnesses log the book at every attempt (surge A2: top-5 asks; oracle: top-5 asks + top-3 bids). Does book structure at fill time separate good fills from adversely-selected ones? A positive, cross-harness-consistent split would be a portable fill-quality gate for every harness (#23 included) — measured on OUR OWN attempt streams, not simmed. Features at attempt time (v0, frozen before looking at outcomes): imb bid$/(bid$+ask$) over the logged levels (both harnesses log bids at attempt — the bid_top key is simply absent on rows where the bid side was empty) l1_frac best-ask depth$ / $100 stake — did our FAK eat the whole L1? slope (ask5_px - ask1_px) — book steepness over the logged levels Outcomes: chain P&L per fill from the graded ledgers (grade_surge / grade_oracle output; keyed asset+ts) — no RPC, no tape, scorer law by construction. Refunds excluded. Quartile split per feature per harness; the credibility gate is SIGN CONSISTENCY across both harnesses (a single-harness split at these n is a hypothesis, not a filter). NOT pre-registered — exploration for a possible harness guard. VERDICT (2026-07-23 run; surge n=1,337 · oracle n=586 graded fills): imb the one REAL structure, and it is a BAND, not a slope: both harnesses show an inverted U — extreme imbalance EITHER way is adverse (surge Q1 −11.51 / Q4 −12.07; oracle Q1 −24.20 / Q4 −15.80) while the balanced middle (imb ~0.25-0.47) is the least-bad/only-positive region (surge −2.9/−4.3, oracle +1.0/+2.4). Empty-bid books = falling knives; bid-heavy books = the winner's curse (someone paid up for support you're buying through). Both parent signals are dead, so this is not an edge — it is a PORTABLE GUARD candidate for live harnesses (#23). slope the printed CONSISTENT gate is an ARTIFACT — books cluster so tight (4-5c across 5 levels) that quartile boundaries land INSIDE tied values (Q2=[0.04..0.04]); the split is tie-broken noise, not structure. Discarded. Lesson: check feature variance before trusting any quantile gate. l1_frac sign-inconsistent across harnesses — no filter. The top-minus-bottom gap stat cannot see an inverted U; the imb read comes from the quartile table, not the gate line.""" import json import os HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) def load_jsonl(path): out = [] try: for ln in open(os.path.join(HERE, path)): try: out.append(json.loads(ln)) except Exception: pass except FileNotFoundError: pass return out def features(att): top = att.get("top") or [] f = {} if top: ask_d = sum(p * s for p, s in top) f["l1_frac"] = top[0][0] * top[0][1] / 100.0 f["slope"] = (top[-1][0] - top[0][0]) if len(top) > 1 else 0.0 bt = att.get("bid_top") or [] if bt: bid_d = sum(p * s for p, s in bt) if bid_d + ask_d > 0: f["imb"] = bid_d / (bid_d + ask_d) return f def quartile_report(tag, rows, feat): rs = [(f[feat], pnl) for f, pnl in rows if feat in f] if len(rs) < 40: print(f" {tag} {feat}: n={len(rs)} too thin") return None rs.sort() qs = [] k = len(rs) // 4 for i in range(4): seg = rs[i * k:(i + 1) * k] if i < 3 else rs[3 * k:] ev = sum(p for _, p in seg) / len(seg) hit = sum(1 for _, p in seg if p > 0) / len(seg) qs.append((ev, hit, len(seg), seg[0][0], seg[-1][0])) print(f" {tag} {feat}: " + " | ".join( f"Q{i+1}[{lo:.2f}..{hi:.2f}] {ev:+6.2f}/fill {hit:.0%} n={n}" for i, (ev, hit, n, lo, hi) in enumerate(qs))) return qs[3][0] - qs[0][0] # top-minus-bottom EV gap def main(): results = {} for tag, att_f, led_f in ( ("SURGE", ".surge_attempts.pull.jsonl", "surge_meas_ledger.jsonl"), ("ORACLE", ".oracle_attempts.pull.jsonl", "oracle_paper_ledger.jsonl")): atts = load_jsonl(att_f) led = load_jsonl(led_f) graded = {} for r in led: if r.get("chain_payout") == 0.5: continue graded[(r["asset"], round(float(r["ts"]), 3))] = r["chain_pnl"] rows = [] for a in atts: if not a.get("filled"): continue key = (a["asset"], round(float(a["ts"]), 3)) if key not in graded: continue rows.append((features(a), graded[key])) print(f"\n{tag}: attempts {len(atts)} · graded fills joined " f"{len(rows)}", flush=True) results[tag] = {} for feat in ("imb", "l1_frac", "slope"): results[tag][feat] = quartile_report(tag, rows, feat) print("\nCROSS-HARNESS GATE (top-quartile minus bottom-quartile EV):") for feat in ("l1_frac", "slope"): g_s = results.get("SURGE", {}).get(feat) g_o = results.get("ORACLE", {}).get(feat) if g_s is None or g_o is None: print(f" {feat}: insufficient data in one harness") continue consistent = (g_s > 0) == (g_o > 0) print(f" {feat}: surge {g_s:+.2f} · oracle {g_o:+.2f} · " f"{'CONSISTENT' if consistent else 'INCONSISTENT — no filter'}") g_i = results.get("ORACLE", {}).get("imb") if g_i is not None: print(f" imb (oracle only, single-harness hypothesis): {g_i:+.2f}") if __name__ == "__main__": main()