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🔧 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 88 ms · ask 3452 ms · total 3542 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 3542 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 8, "score": 0.04866, "snippet": "The game ends after the completion of week 4. After activating in any order 'GAME END' abilities on fish in oceans that don't award end-game points (including fish that enter play during this step), players simultaneously perform each step in order: GAME END (YEOW): Gain any 'GAME END' points on fi", "headingPath": "END OF GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.047379, "snippet": "A school forms whenever 3 or more young share the same slot in your ocean. When this occurs, immediately return 3 young from that slot to the supply and replace them with 1 school token (shown as this icon in the game: ). At the end of weeks 1 through 3: a. Score points for this week's achievement. ", "headingPath": "IMPORTANT NOTES SCHOOL TOKENS", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Each turn, you will either play a fish or dive into your ocean. You will take 6 turns during each of the 4 weeks (a total of 24 turns per player during the entire game). You will typically spend the beginning of the game playing low-cost fish cards and laying eggs, the middle of the game playing hig", "headingPath": "GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "The week ends after each player has taken 6 turns (used all their divers). At the end of weeks 1, 2, and 3, players simultaneously perform each step in order: Gain points based on this week's achievement (points for each instance of the item), noting the points on the scorepad. EXAMPLE: At the end o", "headingPath": "END OF WEEK", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "1 Place all egg/young and school tokens within reach of all players to form the general supply. 2 Shuffle the 10 starter fish cards and place them face down near the general supply. These 10 cards have dark gray corners and a different back than other fish cards. 3 Shuffle the deck of 125 fish cards", "headingPath": "SETUP GLOBAL COMPONENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "Go to stonemaiergames.com/games/finspan/rules-faq", "headingPath": "WANT TO WATCH A HOW-TO-PLAY VIDEO OR READ THE FAQ?", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Designed by David Gordon and Michael O'Connell Art by Ana María Martínez, Catalina Martínez, and Mesa Schumacher with support from Natalia Rojas Developed by Elizabeth Hargrave 1-5 players · 45-60 minutes · ages 10+ · competitive You are a marine researcher seeking to find and observe an array of aq", "headingPath": "A WINGSPAN GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "The vertical area on the right side of fish cards shows the fish's ability. Benefits from fish abilities are optional for each affected player. Gaining all or part of a benefit is allowed. WHEN PLAYED: Gain this benefit when you play a fish (after all other 'play a fish' steps). IF ACTIVATED: Gain t", "headingPath": "FISH ABILITIES", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- [{"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "END OF WEEK", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "END OF GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 54 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 54 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 0.87632 of 760 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row retained until
- Nov 14, 2026 11:32
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 Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | END OF GAME | p.8 | 0.04866 (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 Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | IMPORTANT NOTES SCHOOL TOKENS | p.9 | 0.047379 (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 Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW | p.4 | 0.032258 (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 Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | END OF WEEK | p.8 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | SETUP GLOBAL COMPONENTS | p.2 | 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 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | WANT TO WATCH A HOW-TO-PLAY VIDEO OR READ THE FAQ? | p.12 | 0.030303 (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)) | 49 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | A WINGSPAN GAME | p.1 | 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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | FISH ABILITIES | p.9 | 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)) | 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 32 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 Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | IMPORTANT NOTES SCHOOL TOKENS | p.9 | #2 | 0.047379 (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 Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | END OF WEEK | p.8 | #4 | 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 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW | p.4 | #3 | 0.032258 (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 Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | PLAY A FISH CARD | p.4 | #12 | 0.014085 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one)) | vector | the re-ranker chose it |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | FISH ABILITIES | p.9 | #8 | 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 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | FORAGE FISH | p.9 | #9 | 0.028298 (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 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | SETUP GLOBAL COMPONENTS | p.2 | #5 | 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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | END OF GAME | p.8 | #1 | 0.04866 (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 Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | END OF WEEK | p.8 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) | END OF GAME | p.8 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 88 ms · first delta 2224 ms · total 3542 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 0 ms · retrieval 88 ms · ask 3452 ms · gateway work 3542 ms · total 3542 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 2508
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 263
- tok/sec
- 206.8 tok/sec — 263 output tokens in 1.272 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 51s 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 5), 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.