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  "approach": "Blocked at the required toolchain-first gate; no asymmetry coordinate search performed and no untested strategy returned.",
  "tried": [],
  "next": [
    "Provision Python pip/venv support and a Rust toolchain with maturin; install the pinned simulator and validate its reference.",
    "Fetch and verify YQ, then run two coordinate-search passes restricted to the five assigned asymmetry parameters, using paired tuning seeds.",
    "Confirm the selected candidate against YQ on seeds 400000..401999 and score seeds 0..999; report measured differences, standard errors and worst seeds."
  ],
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  "delta": null,
  "score": {
    "n": 0,
    "mean_edge": null,
    "se": null,
    "seed_start": 0
  },
  "paired": {
    "reference": "YQ 00fae418",
    "seed_start": 400000,
    "n": 0,
    "mean_diff": null,
    "se": null,
    "worst": []
  },
  "seconds_per_simulation": null,
  "validate_ok": false,
  "blocked": "Required toolchain-first gate failed. Clone and checkout of 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 succeeded. Python 3.12.3 is available, but python3 -m pip reports No module named pip. python3 -m venv fails because ensurepip is not available. rustc, cargo, maturin and amm-match were not found on PATH. The editable-install attempt failed without pip; maturin develop --release and amm-match validate on StarterStrategy.sol could not execute (command not found). Per the brief, stopped at this gate rather than returning an untested strategy. No simulations, seed blocks, tuning candidates, scores or gas checks were run. YQ was not fetched or hash-verified.",
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge/6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704/README.md",
      "supports": "Required Rust-engine build, editable Python install and validation commands."
    }
  ]
}