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Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Gaia Projectbg-220308-en-1e
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ANSWERED — Answered
- corpus profile
- live,vps
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
- timings
- search 79 ms · ask 4453 ms · total 20442 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 15906 ms · generation 4536 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 7, "score": 0.048916, "snippet": "For your first game, place your mines as shown below. Always take your mines from left to right on your faction board. By placing your first structures, you colonize your first planets, and you reveal spaces on your faction board. This is important for your income, which is explained on page 10. Sta", "headingPath": "The First Game · Choosing Your First Round Booster · Neutral Player (1-2 Players) · Return Player Components", "sharpsignalDocId": 252}, {"page": 19, "score": 0.04741, "snippet": "When you are familiar with the basic rules, you can play with a more variable game setup. Instead of choosing a faction from the list, the first player chooses any one of the seven faction boards, then chooses either of the factions on it and places the board on the table with that side faceup. Cont", "headingPath": "ADVANCED SETUP: BEYOND THE FIRST GAME · Choosing Your Faction · Placing Your First Structures · Variable Turn Order · Variable Game Board", "sharpsignalDocId": 252}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.047123, "snippet": "For your first game, play with the following game board setup and factions. For future games, also use the Advanced Setup on page 18, which features a variable game board and all factions. For a solo game, also see the Automa rulebook. With two or more players, return the Automa cards and Automa pla", "headingPath": "GAME SETUP · Setup for 3 and 4 players · Setup for 1 and 2 players · Research Board and Federation Tokens", "sharpsignalDocId": 252}, {"page": 19, "score": 0.045228, "snippet": "Use all 10 space sector tiles and place sectors 05, 06, and 07 solid-side up . Method 1: Place space sector tiles 01 through 04 as described in the basic setup, then randomly place tiles 05 through 10 to create the same board shape as the basic setup. Rotate each tile as you choose. Method 2: Random", "headingPath": "3 or 4 Players · 1 or 2 Players · Even More Possibilities", "sharpsignalDocId": 252}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Starting with the first player and continuing in clockwise order, players take turns taking a single action. This continues until all players have taken the 'Pass' action. As soon as a player has passed , that player does not take any more turns for the rest of the phase. The phase ends when all pla", "headingPath": "Phase III: Actions", "sharpsignalDocId": 252}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "At the end of the game, the player with the most VP wins. You will gain VP during the game as well as at the end of the game. Track your VP using your marker on the VP track. The various ways to gain VP are detailed below. By uniting planets to form federations during the game, you gain federation t", "headingPath": "GOAL AND GAMEPLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 252}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.029907, "snippet": "token from the supply and place it on your faction board. To gain a Gaiaformer, take one of your set-aside Gaiaformers and place it on your faction board. Note: The level 1 bonuses of the 'Economy' and 'Science' research areas are income bonuses and are not gained during setup. The Terrans' faction ", "headingPath": "The First Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 252}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Place the scoring board next to the game board. Randomly place one round scoring tile faceup on each numbered tile space of the scoring board. Return the unused round scoring tiles to the box. Randomly place one fi nal scoring tile faceup on each tile space to the right of the green ranking tracks. ", "headingPath": "Scoring Board · Round Boosters and General Supply", "sharpsignalDocId": 252}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- [{"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "THE 6 ROUNDS OF PLAY · Phase I: Income · Phase II: Gaia", "sharpsignalDocId": 252}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Phase III: Actions", "sharpsignalDocId": 252}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 252 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 252 boosted
- answered-before recall
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this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
- answer fence
- passed — letter density 0.88646 of 916 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row retained until
- Nov 13, 2026 13:18
retrieval — what the passage search returned
what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.
score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. 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.
| fused rank | document | heading | page | fused RRF score | snippet chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | The First Game · Choosing Your First Round Booster · Neutral Player (1-2 Players) · Return Player Components | p.7 | 0.048916 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | ADVANCED SETUP: BEYOND THE FIRST GAME · Choosing Your Faction · Placing Your First Structures · Variable Turn Order · Variable Game Board | p.19 | 0.04741 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | GAME SETUP · Setup for 3 and 4 players · Setup for 1 and 2 players · Research Board and Federation Tokens | p.4 | 0.047123 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | 3 or 4 Players · 1 or 2 Players · Even More Possibilities | p.19 | 0.045228 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | Phase III: Actions | p.10 | 0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | GOAL AND GAMEPLAY | p.8 | 0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | The First Game | p.6 | 0.029907 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | Scoring Board · Round Boosters and General Supply | p.5 | 0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it
what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.
candidate pool: the answering read scored 42 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.
floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.
arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.
| read at | document | heading | page | fused rank | fused RRF score | carried by | how it got its slot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | ADVANCED SETUP: BEYOND THE FIRST GAME · Choosing Your Faction · Placing Your First Structures · Variable Turn Order · Variable Game Board | p.19 | #2 | 0.04741 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | GAME SETUP · Setup for 3 and 4 players · Setup for 1 and 2 players · Research Board and Federation Tokens | p.4 | #3 | 0.047123 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | Phase III: Actions | p.10 | #5 | 0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | The First Game | p.6 | #7 | 0.029907 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | vector + full-text | the re-ranker chose it |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | THE 6 ROUNDS OF PLAY · Phase I: Income · Phase II: Gaia | p.10 | #9 | 0.029469 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | vector + full-text | the re-ranker chose it |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | 3 or 4 Players · 1 or 2 Players · Even More Possibilities | p.19 | #4 | 0.045228 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | The First Game | p.6 | #10 | 0.029412 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | The First Game · Choosing Your First Round Booster · Neutral Player (1-2 Players) · Return Player Components | p.7 | #1 | 0.048916 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | THE 6 ROUNDS OF PLAY · Phase I: Income · Phase II: Gaia | p.10 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Gaia Project — Rulebook (corpus doc 252) | Phase III: Actions | p.10 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 79 ms · first delta 2476 ms · total 20442 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 15906 ms · retrieval 79 ms · ask 4453 ms · gateway work 4536 ms · total 20442 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 3180
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 280
- tok/sec
- 139.2 tok/sec — 280 output tokens in 2.012 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 38s ago)
- stream path
- streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
- 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
errata registry — what the gate above had to match against
this game registers NO errata cards (edition 178), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one
Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.