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name: bakeoff

description: Compare named candidates made blind under one pack and return the winner's artifact line scored against a rubric sheet.

disable-model-invocation: true

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Require: `candidates`, the named list under comparison, one line of brief

each; `pack`, the single pack every candidate is made under; `rubric`, the

name of the sheet carrying the comparison's criteria; and `bound`, each

candidate's budget.

tickets.py frame-open <run> --goal-file <bakeoff-goal> --bound <bound> --workflow bakeoff

**Label before anything is made.** Give each candidate an opaque label in

an order you draw rather than the list's, and keep the label-to-name map in

the frame journal, where no later call reads it. A candidate's goal file

carries its own brief and its label; never its name, its author, its

provenance, or another candidate's brief.

**Make them together** — *fan-out*: "One `do` per named item, launched

together under the frame; the shape line lists them as one wave."

tickets.py do <run> --pack <pack> --parent <frame> --isolation required

--goal-file <candidate-goal> --bound <bound>

**Score them blind.** One judge over every candidate's typed artifact line,

in label order, with the rubric stamped:

tickets.py judge <run> --pack <pack> --parent <frame> --sheet <rubric>

--goal-file <judge-goal> --artifacts <line> [--artifacts <line>]...

Its goal: rank every line against the rubric sheet's criteria, name the

winning label, and say what separated it from the runner-up — in the

labels' terms alone. Unblind afterwards, against the map you kept, and

report a candidate that returned nothing as a gap — *declare-gaps*: "A gap

that remains is written as a gap, `[]` when there is none; silence is a

defect."

Never: reveal the incumbent to the judge — not by label order, not by a

sentence in its goal file, not by an artifact line naming which candidate

stands today; run the candidates serially; or stamp the rubric on a

candidate's making, which buys rubric-fitting instead of a comparison.