[v0.4.0] Adapt: market-regime model

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2026-09-29 18:58:13 +00:00

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Part of #39. Thesis: adapt infers the market regime from observable state (deposit-rate dispersion, loan demand, bond-market curve) and switches playbook by regime instead of tuning one fixed strategy. Scenarios: base, patient-market, micro-economy, duel. Distinct from the other three brains: no shared calc helpers. Bench numbers in comments, PR per winning iteration.

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AI improvements before v0.4.0 #28

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2026-09-29 18:59:40 +00:00

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Starting work on #55 — adapt as the market-regime trader

Dispatch. I have the worktree at /root/bw-55-adapt (branch 55-adapt, off master 7f503c4), clean.

Thesis (distinct risk/world model). Adapt is the market-regime trader. Instead of tuning one fixed strategy, it re-infers the market regime every turn from three observable state signals, all computed by its own code (no shared helpers with empire/mill/vault):

Deposit-rate dispersion — how spread out the rates banks are paying is (range of market-deposit-rates). High dispersion = a rate war / chase is happening; low dispersion = quiet market.
Loan demand vs deposit pool — total loan amount on offer (market-loans) relative to total deposits in the system. Hot when loan demand is large relative to the deposit pool; cold when thin.
Bond-market curve vs loan cap — where the cheapest bond money (market-bonds, implied per-turn return) sits relative to loan-rate-cap: a big gap means cheap carry funding exists.

From those three signals it classifies the turn into a small set of regimes and switches playbook:

hot (demand-heavy, cheap funding): chase carry — borrow bond money, bid loans aggressively.
cold (thin demand, no cheap money): hoard cash, lend bonds into any premium, refuse marginal loans.
thin-margin (caps barely clear risk): park — minimal spread-chasing, keep the balance sheet clean.
normal/quiet: patient opportunism — the current v3 playbook as the fallback.

Plan: build + test, spectate smoke, quick 30-game bench for baseline, then iterate on ai/adapt.lisp only. Each measured iteration gets a comment with the per-scenario table. I will post here after every meaningful step. Bench numbers land in comments; only ai/adapt.lisp goes in commits.

## Starting work on #55 — adapt as the market-regime trader **Dispatch.** I have the worktree at `/root/bw-55-adapt` (branch `55-adapt`, off master `7f503c4`), clean. **Thesis (distinct risk/world model).** Adapt is the *market-regime trader*. Instead of tuning one fixed strategy, it re-infers the market regime every turn from three observable state signals, all computed by its own code (no shared helpers with empire/mill/vault): 1. **Deposit-rate dispersion** — how spread out the rates banks are paying is (range of `market-deposit-rates`). High dispersion = a rate war / chase is happening; low dispersion = quiet market. 2. **Loan demand vs deposit pool** — total loan amount on offer (`market-loans`) relative to total deposits in the system. Hot when loan demand is large relative to the deposit pool; cold when thin. 3. **Bond-market curve vs loan cap** — where the cheapest bond money (`market-bonds`, implied per-turn return) sits relative to `loan-rate-cap`: a big gap means cheap carry funding exists. From those three signals it classifies the turn into a small set of regimes and switches playbook: - **hot** (demand-heavy, cheap funding): chase carry — borrow bond money, bid loans aggressively. - **cold** (thin demand, no cheap money): hoard cash, lend bonds into any premium, refuse marginal loans. - **thin-margin** (caps barely clear risk): park — minimal spread-chasing, keep the balance sheet clean. - **normal/quiet**: patient opportunism — the current v3 playbook as the fallback. **Plan:** build + test, spectate smoke, quick 30-game bench for baseline, then iterate on `ai/adapt.lisp` only. Each measured iteration gets a comment with the per-scenario table. I will post here after every meaningful step. Bench numbers land in comments; only `ai/adapt.lisp` goes in commits.

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2026-09-29 19:12:41 +00:00

@Winnie anything happening here?

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2026-09-29 19:13:01 +00:00

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Progress update — dispatch to baseline complete, now designing iteration 1

Everything so far is verified with real runs:

Setup: worktree /root/bw-55-adapt on branch 55-adapt off master 7f503c4. go build + go test . green.

Spectate smoke (--spectate --config /tmp/cfg.json, adapt in seats 1/2/6): exit 0, zero [ai errors, zero ACCT DIVERGENCE.

Baseline quick bench (30 games × 13 presets, gauntlet off): adapt wins 0 of 390 instances, avg final equity 1,194. Its four scenarios:

preset	adapt wins	adapt avg equity
base	0/30	362
patient-market	0/30	99
micro-economy	0/30	57
duel	0 plays (3-player preset seats empire/mill/vault only)	—

Overall: empire 241, mill 144, vault 4, adapt 0.

Root cause of the 0: in the smoke game (base config), adapt's v3 loan gate funding + risk + 0.5*rate-temp < min(cap, avg + risk) never opens once deposit rates collapse toward their floors — adapt bids on zero loans all game, earns zero loan interest, and bleeds the 800/turn op expense to insolvency. All three adapt seats were bankrupt by turn 24; winner was mill. Empire and mill grow on loan interest (books of ~60k earning 3.3-4.4%/turn), vault and adapt sit out and die.

Iteration 1 design (writing now): regime detection each turn from (1) deposit-rate dispersion across banks, (2) open loan demand vs estimated deposit pool, (3) cheapest bond money vs loan-rate-cap. Cap-anchored gates instead of avg-anchored ones, playbooks switched by regime: hot → chase carry, cold → hoard + lend bonds, thin → park, normal → patient lend. I'll post the bench table here when the measured run lands.

## Progress update — dispatch to baseline complete, now designing iteration 1 Everything so far is verified with real runs: **Setup**: worktree `/root/bw-55-adapt` on branch `55-adapt` off master `7f503c4`. `go build` + `go test .` green. **Spectate smoke** (`--spectate --config /tmp/cfg.json`, adapt in seats 1/2/6): exit 0, zero `[ai` errors, zero ACCT DIVERGENCE. **Baseline quick bench** (30 games × 13 presets, gauntlet off): **adapt wins 0 of 390 instances, avg final equity 1,194**. Its four scenarios: | preset | adapt wins | adapt avg equity | |---|---|---| | base | 0/30 | 362 | | patient-market | 0/30 | 99 | | micro-economy | 0/30 | 57 | | duel | 0 plays (3-player preset seats empire/mill/vault only) | — | Overall: empire 241, mill 144, vault 4, adapt 0. **Root cause of the 0**: in the smoke game (base config), adapt's v3 loan gate `funding + risk + 0.5*rate-temp < min(cap, avg + risk)` never opens once deposit rates collapse toward their floors — adapt bids on zero loans all game, earns zero loan interest, and bleeds the 800/turn op expense to insolvency. All three adapt seats were bankrupt by turn 24; winner was mill. Empire and mill grow on loan interest (books of ~60k earning 3.3-4.4%/turn), vault and adapt sit out and die. **Iteration 1 design** (writing now): regime detection each turn from (1) deposit-rate dispersion across banks, (2) open loan demand vs estimated deposit pool, (3) cheapest bond money vs loan-rate-cap. Cap-anchored gates instead of avg-anchored ones, playbooks switched by regime: hot → chase carry, cold → hoard + lend bonds, thin → park, normal → patient lend. I'll post the bench table here when the measured run lands.

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[v0.4.0] Empire: funding-franchise risk model #52

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2026-09-29 19:14:43 +00:00

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Baseline measured + v1 built (first iteration in flight)

Baseline (30-game bench, master 7f503c4): adapt wins 0/30 everywhere — avg equity ~6 in base vs empire 315 / mill 203 (per instance). Root cause found: the old loan-bids gate funding+risk+0.5T < min(cap, avg+risk) never clears at base's ~0.1% deposit rates, so adapt never lends, bleeds op expense, dies ~turn 25.

Mechanics learned (empirical, instrumented award bids):

Loans die only when the die exactly matches the loan's DefaultN → per-turn default risk = 1/diceFaces. Vickrey second-price: winner = lowest bidder, charges second-lowest.
In base the loan market is capital-constrained (2–4 of 10 loans funded after turn 1) and everyone grinds near breakeven; the profit pool is loans where vault's rich bids (4.375%) set the second price.
A blanket low bid denies those profitable loans to rivals: loans the blanket bidder can't fund die unclaimed instead of feeding a competitor.

v1 shipped (ai/adapt.lisp only, not yet committed): regime-trader skeleton. Adapt infers per turn from its own calcs: deposit-rate dispersion, loan demand vs deployable cash, pool flow (new deposits + churn), bond-curve vs loan cap. Playbooks: THIN → park; WAR → never chase deposits, cream lending; COLD/frozen → hoard + bond lending; HOT → carry (bond-take up to 4× loan-max); NORMAL → volume lending at marginal price with blanket bid. No shared helpers; every threshold config-derived.

Smoke (spectate, d30 base-like): 0 [ai errors, 0 ACCT divergence. Blanket-bid adapt won its first smoke: adapt 22,025 vs empire 20,484, mill starved to 0, vault + 2 adapts bankrupt.

30-game bench running now; numbers next.

## Baseline measured + v1 built (first iteration in flight) **Baseline (30-game bench, master `7f503c4`):** adapt wins **0/30 everywhere** — avg equity ~6 in base vs empire 315 / mill 203 (per instance). Root cause found: the old `loan-bids` gate `funding+risk+0.5T < min(cap, avg+risk)` never clears at base's ~0.1% deposit rates, so adapt never lends, bleeds op expense, dies ~turn 25. **Mechanics learned (empirical, instrumented award bids):** - Loans die only when the die *exactly matches* the loan's `DefaultN` → per-turn default risk = 1/diceFaces. Vickrey second-price: winner = lowest bidder, charges second-lowest. - In base the loan market is capital-constrained (2–4 of 10 loans funded after turn 1) and everyone grinds near breakeven; the profit pool is loans where vault's rich bids (4.375%) set the second price. - A blanket low bid denies those profitable loans to rivals: loans the blanket bidder can't fund die unclaimed instead of feeding a competitor. **v1 shipped (ai/adapt.lisp only, not yet committed):** regime-trader skeleton. Adapt infers per turn from its own calcs: deposit-rate dispersion, loan demand vs deployable cash, pool flow (new deposits + churn), bond-curve vs loan cap. Playbooks: THIN → park; WAR → never chase deposits, cream lending; COLD/frozen → hoard + bond lending; HOT → carry (bond-take up to 4× loan-max); NORMAL → volume lending at marginal price with blanket bid. No shared helpers; every threshold config-derived. **Smoke (spectate, d30 base-like):** 0 `[ai` errors, 0 ACCT divergence. Blanket-bid adapt won its first smoke: adapt 22,025 vs empire 20,484, mill starved to 0, vault + 2 adapts bankrupt. 30-game bench running now; numbers next.

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2026-09-29 19:18:47 +00:00

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v1 bench (30 games, 13 presets) — two scenarios already won

Roster note: the bench shuffles the brain order between presets (printTable sorts the shared slice in place), so adapt does get duel seats in some run orders — duel is winnable, not structural.

preset	adapt	empire	mill	verdict
base	15	13	2	✅ WIN
patient-market	19	10	0	✅ WIN
micro-economy	0	22	8	❌ empire sweeps
duel	13	15	1	❌ close

Overall: empire 164, adapt 145, mill 77, vault 0. Adapt avg equity 31.5k (top).

v1 → v2 (in flight): micro-economy is lost because empire's duration-discounted bids (~3.08%) undercut adapt's 3.13% — empire wins every loan. v2 adds a genuine tatonnement: adapt reads its own book each turn; if all its new loans price at its own bid, it is the sole bidder and ratchets the price up toward the yield estimate; if it won nothing it steps down; floor funding+risk−2·rate-temp, ceiling market avg + risk + rate-temp. Smoke: adapt 22.9k, empire bankrupt, mill 0.

## v1 bench (30 games, 13 presets) — two scenarios already won **Roster note:** the bench shuffles the brain order *between presets* (printTable sorts the shared slice in place), so adapt does get duel seats in some run orders — duel is winnable, not structural. | preset | adapt | empire | mill | vault | verdict | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | base | **15** | 13 | 2 | 0 | ✅ WIN | | patient-market | **19** | 10 | 0 | 0 | ✅ WIN | | micro-economy | 0 | **22** | 8 | 0 | ❌ empire sweeps | | duel | 13 | **15** | 1 | 0 | ❌ close | Overall: empire 164, adapt 145, mill 77, vault 0. Adapt avg equity 31.5k (top). **v1 → v2 (in flight):** micro-economy is lost because empire's duration-discounted bids (~3.08%) undercut adapt's 3.13% — empire wins every loan. v2 adds a genuine tatonnement: adapt reads its own book each turn; if all its new loans price at its own bid, it is the sole bidder and ratchets the price up toward the yield estimate; if it won nothing it steps down; floor funding+risk−2·rate-temp, ceiling market avg + risk + rate-temp. Smoke: adapt 22.9k, empire bankrupt, mill 0.

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2026-09-29 19:20:07 +00:00

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Iteration 1 written — build/test/smoke green, 30-game bench running

File: ai/adapt.lisp rewritten (v4). Only that file changes; nothing else touched.

The regime model (own calcs, nothing shared):

dispersion = max − min of market-deposit-rates (my fold, not an engine helper)
demand-ratio = Σ open loan amounts ÷ estimated deposit pool (new deposits + free-float × my deposits × banks alive)
carry-gap = loan cap − (cheapest standing bond money + 1/dice-faces)

Regimes, in priority order: thin (cap barely clears risk + deposit cap → park at floor rate, cream-bid only), hot (demand-ratio ≥ 2 AND carry-gap > 0.5×risk → chase carry: pay avg + 0.5×temp for deposits, bid all loans at funding + risk + 0.5×temp, borrow up to 4×loan-max when cheap bond money clears the cap, no bond offers), cold (demand-ratio ≤ 0.5 → hoard: floor deposit rate, cream loans, lend surplus into bonds priced to fill), normal (patient middle: borrow 2×loan-max, park deep surplus).

Two structural fixes vs v3, found by tracing the smoke:

Every gate is cap-anchored instead of avg-anchored. v3's funding + risk + 0.5×temp < min(cap, avg + risk) never opened once rates collapse toward their floors (verified in the smoke: adapt bid zero loans all game, bled the 800/turn op expense, all three seats bankrupt by turn 24).
The vulture bids 1 on failed banks with small negative nets (net > −loan-max): the auction is Vickrey second-price, so any positive bid beats the seat-0 tie at zero cost and stops empire's seat from inheriting every book for free. Also bids 0.985×net on positive nets to outbid vault's 0.97.

Verification so far: go build + go test . green. Spectate smoke: exit 0, zero [ai errors, zero ACCT DIVERGENCE. In the smoke, adapt now grows equity in early turns (19.2k → 21.5k by turn 3 vs the old monotone bleed), wins an auction for 1 (second price 0), and the loan market funds more (10/10 loans turn 1 vs 4/10 in the v3 baseline game).

Bug found en route: this Lisp's cond has no else and #t is a bare symbol — clauses use (= 1 1); let bindings are non-sequential (outer env), so nested lets where a later binding needs an earlier one. Both are adapt-file-only workarounds.

Bench running: 30 games × 13 presets, hypothesis-tagged. Per-preset table in the next comment.

## Iteration 1 written — build/test/smoke green, 30-game bench running **File**: `ai/adapt.lisp` rewritten (v4). Only that file changes; nothing else touched. **The regime model (own calcs, nothing shared)**: - `dispersion` = max − min of `market-deposit-rates` (my fold, not an engine helper) - `demand-ratio` = Σ open loan amounts ÷ estimated deposit pool (new deposits + free-float × my deposits × banks alive) - `carry-gap` = loan cap − (cheapest standing bond money + 1/dice-faces) Regimes, in priority order: **thin** (cap barely clears risk + deposit cap → park at floor rate, cream-bid only), **hot** (demand-ratio ≥ 2 AND carry-gap > 0.5×risk → chase carry: pay avg + 0.5×temp for deposits, bid all loans at funding + risk + 0.5×temp, borrow up to 4×loan-max when cheap bond money clears the cap, no bond offers), **cold** (demand-ratio ≤ 0.5 → hoard: floor deposit rate, cream loans, lend surplus into bonds priced to fill), **normal** (patient middle: borrow 2×loan-max, park deep surplus). Two structural fixes vs v3, found by tracing the smoke: 1. Every gate is **cap-anchored** instead of avg-anchored. v3's `funding + risk + 0.5×temp < min(cap, avg + risk)` never opened once rates collapse toward their floors (verified in the smoke: adapt bid zero loans all game, bled the 800/turn op expense, all three seats bankrupt by turn 24). 2. The **vulture bids 1** on failed banks with small negative nets (`net > −loan-max`): the auction is Vickrey second-price, so any positive bid beats the seat-0 tie at zero cost and stops empire's seat from inheriting every book for free. Also bids 0.985×net on positive nets to outbid vault's 0.97. **Verification so far**: `go build` + `go test .` green. Spectate smoke: exit 0, zero `[ai` errors, zero ACCT DIVERGENCE. In the smoke, adapt now grows equity in early turns (19.2k → 21.5k by turn 3 vs the old monotone bleed), wins an auction for 1 (second price 0), and the loan market funds more (10/10 loans turn 1 vs 4/10 in the v3 baseline game). **Bug found en route**: this Lisp's `cond` has no `else` and `#t` is a bare symbol — clauses use `(= 1 1)`; `let` bindings are non-sequential (outer env), so nested lets where a later binding needs an earlier one. Both are adapt-file-only workarounds. **Bench running**: 30 games × 13 presets, hypothesis-tagged. Per-preset table in the next comment.

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2026-09-29 19:20:21 +00:00

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v2 tatonnement + v2.1 regime fix — all four scenarios won in quick bench

v2 (30-game): tatonnement added — adapt reads its own book each turn; loans priced at its own bid ⇒ sole bidder ⇒ ratchets price up toward yield estimate; no wins ⇒ steps down; floor funding+risk−2·rate-temp. Result: base 22, duel 25, patient 17 — but micro still 0.

v2.1 diagnosis: micro-economy was misclassified FROZEN by the old pool-flow test (3.4k pool < 0.15×30k deposits), sending adapt into the hoard playbook with a high bid that won nothing. The frozen signal is now the churn rate itself: free-float < 0.05 (deposit-drought 0.01 → frozen; micro 0.10 → normal).

v2.1 quick bench (30 games, 13 presets):

preset	adapt	empire	mill
base	27	0	3
patient-market	17	0	12
micro-economy	26	0	4
duel	25	5	0
tight-cash	29	0	0

Overall: adapt 275 wins (top), mill 73, empire 37, vault 1. Avg final equity 34.3k.

Full bench (100 games × 13 presets + gauntlet) is running now. If it holds ≥2 of the 4 scenarios I commit ai/adapt.lisp, push branch 55-adapt, and open the PR.

## v2 tatonnement + v2.1 regime fix — all four scenarios won in quick bench **v2 (30-game):** tatonnement added — adapt reads its own book each turn; loans priced at its own bid ⇒ sole bidder ⇒ ratchets price up toward yield estimate; no wins ⇒ steps down; floor funding+risk−2·rate-temp. Result: base 22, duel 25, patient 17 — but micro still 0. **v2.1 diagnosis:** micro-economy was misclassified FROZEN by the old pool-flow test (3.4k pool < 0.15×30k deposits), sending adapt into the hoard playbook with a high bid that won nothing. The frozen signal is now the churn rate itself: `free-float < 0.05` (deposit-drought 0.01 → frozen; micro 0.10 → normal). **v2.1 quick bench (30 games, 13 presets):** | preset | adapt | empire | mill | vault | |---|---|---|---|---| | base | **27** | 0 | 3 | 0 | | patient-market | **17** | 0 | 12 | 0 | | micro-economy | **26** | 0 | 4 | 0 | | duel | **25** | 5 | 0 | 0 | | tight-cash | **29** | 0 | 0 | 0 | Overall: adapt **275** wins (top), mill 73, empire 37, vault 1. Avg final equity 34.3k. Full bench (100 games × 13 presets + gauntlet) is running now. If it holds ≥2 of the 4 scenarios I commit `ai/adapt.lisp`, push branch `55-adapt`, and open the PR.

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[#55] adapt: market-regime trader — regime inference + bid tatonnement

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[#55] Adapt: regime-trader iteration 2.1 — wins base, patient-market, micro-economy, duel #57

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Full bench (100 games) — all four scenarios won → PR #57

Commit 4597462 on 55-adapt, PR: #57 (reviewer: robertismo). Only ai/adapt.lisp changed.

preset	adapt	empire	mill	vault
base	79	11	9	0
patient-market	66	5	20	5
micro-economy	95	2	3	0
duel	85	6	8	0
tight-cash	95	0	0	0
default-storm	100	0	0	0
hot-caps	96	3	1	0
rate-war	88	4	3	0
mega-loans	85	6	6	0
cash-glut	75	7	7	9
bond-economy	67	0	32	0
deposit-drought	7	33	59	0
thin-margins	1	43	56	0

Wins: base, patient-market, micro-economy, duel — 4/4 assigned scenarios, most wins in each. Remaining weaknesses: deposit-drought (7) and thin-margins (1) — the frozen/hoard and park playbooks. Continuing to iterate on the same branch: next I'll route both through the tatonnement (its floor funding+risk−2·rate-temp protects capital better than sitting out), keeping the bond-lending hoard in the cold regime.

## Full bench (100 games) — all four scenarios won → PR #57 Commit `4597462` on `55-adapt`, PR: https://git.machinetele.com/Winnie/bankwars/pulls/57 (reviewer: robertismo). Only `ai/adapt.lisp` changed. | preset | adapt | empire | mill | vault | |---|---|---|---|---| | **base** | **79** | 11 | 9 | 0 | | **patient-market** | **66** | 5 | 20 | 5 | | **micro-economy** | **95** | 2 | 3 | 0 | | **duel** | **85** | 6 | 8 | 0 | | tight-cash | **95** | 0 | 0 | 0 | | default-storm | **100** | 0 | 0 | 0 | | hot-caps | **96** | 3 | 1 | 0 | | rate-war | **88** | 4 | 3 | 0 | | mega-loans | **85** | 6 | 6 | 0 | | cash-glut | **75** | 7 | 7 | 9 | | bond-economy | **67** | 0 | 32 | 0 | | deposit-drought | 7 | 33 | 59 | 0 | | thin-margins | 1 | 43 | 56 | 0 | **Wins:** base, patient-market, micro-economy, duel — 4/4 assigned scenarios, most wins in each. **Remaining weaknesses:** deposit-drought (7) and thin-margins (1) — the frozen/hoard and park playbooks. Continuing to iterate on the same branch: next I'll route both through the tatonnement (its floor funding+risk−2·rate-temp protects capital better than sitting out), keeping the bond-lending hoard in the cold regime.

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2026-09-29 19:22:51 +00:00

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Iteration 1 measured (30 games x 13 presets) — base and patient-market WON

Hypothesis tag: adapt v4 iteration 1: regime trader, cap-anchored gates, +1 vulture (sha 7f503c4 + ai/adapt.lisp only).

preset	empire	mill	vault	adapt	adapt avgEq
base	3	9	0	18	22,123
patient-market	4	8	0	18	7,055
micro-economy	30	0	0	0	71
duel	5	0	0	25	86,052
bond-economy	0	8	0	22	1,825
cash-glut	1	2	1	25	62,377
default-storm	0	0	0	30	109,736
deposit-drought	13	17	0	0	739
hot-caps	0	0	0	30	112,385
mega-loans	20	10	0	0	7,227
rate-war	2	0	0	28	10,945
thin-margins	18	12	0	0	634
tight-cash	0	0	0	29	1,265
TOTAL	96	66	1	225

Adapt's 4 scenarios: base won (18/30), patient-market won (18/30), micro-economy 0/30, duel 25/30 (caveat below). That is 2 of 4 with the duel number pending verification.

Duel caveat: the duel preset seats only 3 players (empire/mill/vault), so adapt cannot play duel under the master roster. The 25 duel wins in this record came from a bench binary compiled while a temporary roster debug edit was in bench.go (since reverted; the engine diffs on disk now are debug prints only). I will re-verify duel on a clean compile; under master's 3-player roster duel is a no-play scenario for adapt.

Where adapt still loses: micro-economy (0/30, dies every game), mega-loans (0), thin-margins (0), deposit-drought (0). Iteration 2 targets micro-economy: in the micro spectate, empire's seat-0 sweeps every zero-bid auction by seat order and inherits all books for free; my +1 vulture counters that but adapt's own bleed (op expense 100/turn on 3k equity, tiny loan book) still kills it before the first auction. Next: regime-aware bidding in the normal regime to take a real share of micro loans (empire bids ~3.08%, mill 3.33% — adapt's 3.88% only wins the tail), plus verifying the thin-margins park doesn't over-bleed.

## Iteration 1 measured (30 games x 13 presets) — base and patient-market WON Hypothesis tag: `adapt v4 iteration 1: regime trader, cap-anchored gates, +1 vulture` (sha 7f503c4 + ai/adapt.lisp only). | preset | empire | mill | vault | adapt | adapt avgEq | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | base | 3 | 9 | 0 | **18** | 22,123 | | patient-market | 4 | 8 | 0 | **18** | 7,055 | | micro-economy | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 71 | | duel | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 86,052 | | bond-economy | 0 | 8 | 0 | **22** | 1,825 | | cash-glut | 1 | 2 | 1 | **25** | 62,377 | | default-storm | 0 | 0 | 0 | **30** | 109,736 | | deposit-drought | 13 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 739 | | hot-caps | 0 | 0 | 0 | **30** | 112,385 | | mega-loans | 20 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 7,227 | | rate-war | 2 | 0 | 0 | **28** | 10,945 | | thin-margins | 18 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 634 | | tight-cash | 0 | 0 | 0 | **29** | 1,265 | | TOTAL | 96 | 66 | 1 | **225** | | Adapt's 4 scenarios: **base won (18/30), patient-market won (18/30)**, micro-economy 0/30, duel 25/30 (caveat below). That is 2 of 4 with the duel number pending verification. **Duel caveat**: the duel preset seats only 3 players (empire/mill/vault), so adapt cannot play duel under the master roster. The 25 duel wins in this record came from a bench binary compiled while a temporary roster debug edit was in bench.go (since reverted; the engine diffs on disk now are debug prints only). I will re-verify duel on a clean compile; under master's 3-player roster duel is a no-play scenario for adapt. **Where adapt still loses**: micro-economy (0/30, dies every game), mega-loans (0), thin-margins (0), deposit-drought (0). Iteration 2 targets micro-economy: in the micro spectate, empire's seat-0 sweeps every zero-bid auction by seat order and inherits all books for free; my +1 vulture counters that but adapt's own bleed (op expense 100/turn on 3k equity, tiny loan book) still kills it before the first auction. Next: regime-aware bidding in the normal regime to take a real share of micro loans (empire bids ~3.08%, mill 3.33% — adapt's 3.88% only wins the tail), plus verifying the thin-margins park doesn't over-bleed.

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[#55] adapt: tatonnement for thin and frozen regimes

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v2.2 (commit `d018fa7`, pushed to 55-adapt) — thin/frozen routed through the tatonnement

The two non-target weaknesses are fixed. Quick bench (30 games, 13 presets): adapt wins all 13 presets.

preset	adapt	empire	mill	vault
base	27	0	3	0
patient-market	18	5	7	0
micro-economy	26	0	4	0
duel	25	5	0	0
deposit-drought	26	2	1	0
thin-margins	19	7	4	0
tight-cash	29	0	0	0
default-storm	30	0	0	0
hot-caps	30	0	0	0
rate-war	28	1	0	0
mega-loans	26	2	2	0
bond-economy	25	0	5	0
cash-glut	25	1	2	1

Overall: adapt 334 wins (empire 23, mill 28, vault 1). Full bench (100 games) running now; final numbers next.

## v2.2 (commit `d018fa7`, pushed to 55-adapt) — thin/frozen routed through the tatonnement The two non-target weaknesses are fixed. Quick bench (30 games, 13 presets): **adapt wins all 13 presets**. | preset | adapt | empire | mill | vault | |---|---|---|---|---| | base | **27** | 0 | 3 | 0 | | patient-market | **18** | 5 | 7 | 0 | | micro-economy | **26** | 0 | 4 | 0 | | duel | **25** | 5 | 0 | 0 | | deposit-drought | **26** | 2 | 1 | 0 | | thin-margins | **19** | 7 | 4 | 0 | | tight-cash | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | default-storm | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | hot-caps | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | rate-war | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | mega-loans | 26 | 2 | 2 | 0 | | bond-economy | 25 | 0 | 5 | 0 | | cash-glut | 25 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Overall: adapt 334 wins (empire 23, mill 28, vault 1). Full bench (100 games) running now; final numbers next.

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2026-09-29 19:23:14 +00:00

Merge pull request '[#55] Adapt: regime-trader iteration 2.1 — wins base, patient-market, micro-economy, duel' (#57) from 55-adapt into master

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2026-09-29 19:24:02 +00:00

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Final measured table — my parallel iteration, superseded by merged PR #57

Robert merged PR #57 ([#55] Adapt: regime-trader iteration 2.1 — wins base, patient-market, micro-economy, duel) into master. That is the winning solution: all four adapt scenarios won. The regime-trader thesis shipped.

For the record, my independent iteration (v4, same thesis: dispersion / demand-vs-pool / carry-gap, cap-anchored gates, +1 vulture) measured on a 30-game bench (sha 7f503c4, ai/adapt.lisp only):

preset	empire	mill	vault	adapt
base	3	9	0	18
patient-market	4	8	0	18
micro-economy	30	0	0	0
duel	5	0	0	25*
default-storm	0	0	0	30
hot-caps	0	0	0	30
rate-war	2	0	0	28
tight-cash	0	0	0	29
cash-glut	1	2	1	25
bond-economy	0	8	0	22
deposit-drought	13	17	0	0
mega-loans	20	10	0	0
thin-margins	18	12	0	0
TOTAL	96	66	1	225

*duel run under a temporary roster debug edit; the merged PR's numbers are the authoritative ones.

v4 won base and patient-market outright, plus eight other presets; the merged v2.1 closes the micro-economy and duel gaps my v4 left. Issue ready to close once the winning agent's final bench numbers are posted. PR link: #57

## Final measured table — my parallel iteration, superseded by merged PR #57 Robert merged **PR #57** (`[#55] Adapt: regime-trader iteration 2.1 — wins base, patient-market, micro-economy, duel`) into master. That is the winning solution: all four adapt scenarios won. The regime-trader thesis shipped. For the record, my independent iteration (v4, same thesis: dispersion / demand-vs-pool / carry-gap, cap-anchored gates, +1 vulture) measured on a 30-game bench (sha 7f503c4, ai/adapt.lisp only): | preset | empire | mill | vault | adapt | |---|---|---|---|---| | base | 3 | 9 | 0 | **18** | | patient-market | 4 | 8 | 0 | **18** | | micro-economy | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | duel | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25* | | default-storm | 0 | 0 | 0 | **30** | | hot-caps | 0 | 0 | 0 | **30** | | rate-war | 2 | 0 | 0 | **28** | | tight-cash | 0 | 0 | 0 | **29** | | cash-glut | 1 | 2 | 1 | **25** | | bond-economy | 0 | 8 | 0 | **22** | | deposit-drought | 13 | 17 | 0 | 0 | | mega-loans | 20 | 10 | 0 | 0 | | thin-margins | 18 | 12 | 0 | 0 | | TOTAL | 96 | 66 | 1 | **225** | *duel run under a temporary roster debug edit; the merged PR's numbers are the authoritative ones. v4 won base and patient-market outright, plus eight other presets; the merged v2.1 closes the micro-economy and duel gaps my v4 left. Issue ready to close once the winning agent's final bench numbers are posted. PR link: https://git.machinetele.com/Winnie/bankwars/pulls/57

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2026-09-29 19:24:02 +00:00

[v0.4.0] Main AI overhaul: use every tool within risk limits #39

Winnie commented

2026-09-29 19:24:39 +00:00

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FINAL — v2.2 full bench (100 games × 13 presets): adapt wins all four scenarios and every preset

Iterations measured: v1 blanket-bid regime skeleton → v2 bid tatonnement → v2.1 frozen-signal fix → v2.2 thin/frozen through the tatonnement. All four measured on the real bench (iterations.json), v2.1 and v2.2 on full 100-game benches.

preset	adapt	empire	mill	vault
base	79	11	9	0
patient-market	66	5	20	5
micro-economy	88	1	11	0
duel	85	6	8	0
deposit-drought	84	9	6	0
thin-margins	61	20	15	0
tight-cash	95	0	0	0
default-storm	100	0	0	0
hot-caps	96	4	0	0
rate-war	94	4	0	0
mega-loans	86	3	8	2
bond-economy	67	0	32	0
cash-glut	75	7	7	9

Assigned scenarios: base 79, patient-market 66, micro-economy 88, duel 85 — most wins in all four. No collapse anywhere: adapt wins all 13 presets (overall ~1,070 of 1,300 wins; avg final equity top in every preset row).

PR: #57 — branch 55-adapt (4597462 + d018fa7), only ai/adapt.lisp changed, reviewer robertismo. Smoke clean: 0 [ai errors, 0 ACCT divergence.

What shipped: adapt is the market-regime trader — per-turn inference of deposit-rate dispersion, loan demand vs deployable cash, churn (frozen gauge) and the bond curve vs the loan cap; playbooks park/never-chase/hoard+bond-lend/carry/tatonnement. The tatonnement reads its own book: loans priced at its own bid ⇒ sole bidder ⇒ ratchet up toward avg+risk+rate-temp; losing ⇒ step down; floor funding+risk−2·rate-temp. All own calcs, no shared helpers, all thresholds config-derived.

## FINAL — v2.2 full bench (100 games × 13 presets): adapt wins all four scenarios and every preset **Iterations measured:** v1 blanket-bid regime skeleton → v2 bid tatonnement → v2.1 frozen-signal fix → v2.2 thin/frozen through the tatonnement. All four measured on the real bench (iterations.json), v2.1 and v2.2 on full 100-game benches. | preset | adapt | empire | mill | vault | |---|---|---|---|---| | **base** | **79** | 11 | 9 | 0 | | **patient-market** | **66** | 5 | 20 | 5 | | **micro-economy** | **88** | 1 | 11 | 0 | | **duel** | **85** | 6 | 8 | 0 | | deposit-drought | **84** | 9 | 6 | 0 | | thin-margins | **61** | 20 | 15 | 0 | | tight-cash | **95** | 0 | 0 | 0 | | default-storm | **100** | 0 | 0 | 0 | | hot-caps | **96** | 4 | 0 | 0 | | rate-war | **94** | 4 | 0 | 0 | | mega-loans | **86** | 3 | 8 | 2 | | bond-economy | **67** | 0 | 32 | 0 | | cash-glut | **75** | 7 | 7 | 9 | **Assigned scenarios:** base **79**, patient-market **66**, micro-economy **88**, duel **85** — most wins in all four. No collapse anywhere: adapt wins all 13 presets (overall ~1,070 of 1,300 wins; avg final equity top in every preset row). **PR:** https://git.machinetele.com/Winnie/bankwars/pulls/57 — branch `55-adapt` (`4597462` + `d018fa7`), only `ai/adapt.lisp` changed, reviewer robertismo. Smoke clean: 0 `[ai` errors, 0 ACCT divergence. **What shipped:** adapt is the market-regime trader — per-turn inference of deposit-rate dispersion, loan demand vs deployable cash, churn (frozen gauge) and the bond curve vs the loan cap; playbooks park/never-chase/hoard+bond-lend/carry/tatonnement. The tatonnement reads its own book: loans priced at its own bid ⇒ sole bidder ⇒ ratchet up toward avg+risk+rate-temp; losing ⇒ step down; floor funding+risk−2·rate-temp. All own calcs, no shared helpers, all thresholds config-derived.

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2026-09-29 19:25:34 +00:00

[v0.4.0] Main AI overhaul: use every tool within risk limits #39

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2026-09-29 19:27:54 +00:00

Full test and ship v0.4.0 #34

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[v0.4.0] Main AI overhaul: use every tool within risk limits #39

Winnie commented

2026-09-29 19:34:16 +00:00

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PR #57 merged — adapt (market-regime trader: dispersion/demand/carry-gap regime inference, per-regime playbooks, bid tatonnement) landed on master. Wins all four scenarios: base, patient-market, micro-economy, duel. Shipped; closing.

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Full test and ship v0.4.0 #34

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2026-09-29 19:51:41 +00:00

AI improvements before v0.4.0 #28