# Overnight session summary

**Date:** 2026-04-20 → 2026-04-21 (overnight autonomous session)

Read this first when you open the laptop. Full details in
`journal/journal.pdf` (newest entry: `2026-04-20-overnight-prompt-jump.tex`).

## TL;DR

1. **Implemented the prompt-jump (singular-perturbation) PKE reduction**
   in `code/src/pke_th_rhs_pj.jl`. State drops 10 → 9 (n algebraic).
   Validated against full 10-state: max 0.1% relative error on n, max
   7 mK on temperatures over 50 minutes of heatup. See
   `docs/figures/validate_pj_heatup.png`.

2. **Nonlinear reach on heatup PJ: 30× horizon improvement.**
   - Before: full-state hit prompt-neutron stiffness wall at T=10s.
   - After PJ: T=60s and T=300s reach sound, clean.
   - T=1800s+ runs out of 100k step budget but returns a valid partial
     tube.
   - 5 of 6 `inv1_holds` halfspaces discharged at T=300s.
   - The `t_avg_low_trip` (T_c ≥ 280 °C) is violated by the TUBE
     (envelope dips to 272.4), not by the plant itself — this is
     over-approximation looseness and the nominal trajectory stays
     above 280. Refinement options listed in the journal.

3. **Scram PJ reach** — script written and running as of commit time.
   Result will land in the journal; check
   `reachability/reach_scram_pj_result.mat` + the latest git commit.

4. **App v2 (Pluto)** — three new cells in the predicate explorer:
   - §9b: live ingestion of `reach_operation_result.mat`; per-halfspace
     margins computed from JSON, rendered as a table with ✅/❌ badges.
   - §9c: 2D projection chooser (pick any two of {n, T_f, T_c, T_cold}
     and see the operating polytope + reach tube envelope).
   - §9d: placeholder for PJ heatup reach overlay once the app learns
     to read `reach_heatup_pj_result.mat`.

5. **Journal:** now 32 pages, rebuilds cleanly via `latexmk -pdf` in
   `journal/`. Fixed a couple of LaTeX gotchas — `\degreeFahrenheit`,
   `\microsecond`, and UTF-8 passthrough in `lstlisting` blocks.

## What's in this session's commits (most recent first)

- `0a8348e` walkthrough: PJ reach results (30× horizon win)
- `3fdf5ee` PJ reach 30× improvement (commits envelope summaries)
- `(earlier tonight)` prompt-jump model + app v2 + journal scaffold

## Things to look at in the morning

### Priority-1 (actual scientific content)

1. **Pull up `journal/journal.pdf`.** 32 pages, all the deep stuff.
   Most relevant entry: `2026-04-20-overnight-prompt-jump.tex`.
2. **Look at `docs/figures/validate_pj_heatup.png`** — the visual
   evidence that PJ is a sound reduction for slow heatup.
3. **Pluto app:**
   ```bash
   cd app && julia --project=. -e 'using Pluto; Pluto.run()'
   # open predicate_explorer.jl
   ```
   §9b should show live margins from the refreshed reach result.
4. **Decide:** accept the 300s PJ tube as the headline heatup reach
   artifact, or invest in refinement (tighter entry box, entry
   splitting) to get past 1800s with the low-trip discharged.

### Priority-2 (followup ideas)

- `code/scripts/reach_heatup_pj_tight.jl` exists (committed but not
  run tonight). Tighter T_c entry box; if a run has time, see
  whether the low-trip tube bound rises above 280.
- `code/scripts/reach_scram_pj.jl` — scram reach. Either already in
  the commit log by morning, or still running.
- Refinement (entry splitting into sub-boxes, unioning reach results)
  is the textbook way to tighten tubes. Haven't implemented.
- Saturation-as-hybrid-sub-mode — still the open item for heatup
  soundness.
- Polytopic/SOS barrier — still the open item for analytic
  certificate.
- Parametric α uncertainty — still the open item for robust reach.

### What NOT to forget

- The PJ reduction introduces a ≤0.1% error. It's documented and
  bounded, but it's an approximation. "Sound w.r.t. PJ dynamics"
  ≠ "sound w.r.t. physical plant." A Tikhonov-style closed-form
  error bound would close this gap rigorously.
- Mode boundary numbers are still engineering guesses — pin to real
  tech-spec values before defense.
- `reach_heatup_pj_result.mat` has *envelope summaries* at the probe
  horizons, not the full time-varying tube. The app §9d overlay
  placeholder needs the full tube if you want an animated plot.

## Context for whoever's picking this up

Starting commit tonight (pre-PJ work): `83c5cb8`.
Current HEAD: `0a8348e` + whatever scram produced.
Clean working tree expected (commits are atomic per task).

MATLAB is gone. Everything is Julia. Predicates JSON is the single
source of truth for numerical halfspaces. Journal is the narrative
source of truth. `claude_memory/` has short pointers.

Was fun to work on. Go read the overnight entry, grab coffee, pick
the next lever. 🦎

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*— Hacker-Split, overnight 2026-04-20 → 2026-04-21*