ADR-D12: F-EXP as QA reproduction of the canonical pipeline

Status:

Accepted

Date:

2026-05-05

Phase:

F-EXP

Context

After the structural refactor (F0-F5), the rebuilt pipeline needs end-to-end validation. Independently, the thesis needs a clean campaign whose numbers can be cited without caveat. Running two campaigns is duplicative.

Decision

Treat F-EXP as both: a QA reproduction of the canonical pipeline and the production run that supplies thesis chapter 6 numbers. Each Job records its narrative (D11). At the close, material is distilled into ~8-12 thesis pages.

Consequences

  • Wipe-and-rebuild executed once on a backed-up database.

  • Tagging convention study_v_thesis makes the campaign navigable as a single experiment unit.

  • Replay drill (1 % Fmax tolerance) verifies reproducibility of any ExperimentRun row.

Resolution

Closed.