A probability is served because evidence supports it, not because nothing else answered

The band gate was blocked for its `else` branch. It read:

    candidate = F(raw)
    served    = inCertifiedBand(candidate) ? candidate : RAW

and above raw 0.60 the model is measured overconfident — holdout raw 0.80-0.90
predicts 0.843 and realizes 0.639. So "the calibrator is not supported here" was
being answered with a number already proven wrong. Unsupported calibration does
not make raw true.

Four candidates were adjudicated on ONE split — fit on the earliest 60% of
train, decide support on the last 40%, evaluate on a holdout that saw neither:

  A low-param      80.2% coverage  0.24374  REFUTED — its extra region
                   (raw 0.80-0.90) certified on cert (err +0.040, n=55) and
                   refuted on holdout (served 0.754 vs observed 0.639), and it
                   leaves a hole at 0.70-0.80 while serving the island above it
  B isotonic       91.3% coverage  0.24337  CERTIFIED, contiguous raw [0.50,0.80)
  C empirical band 91.3% coverage  0.24335  REFUTED — refitted point-in-time on
                   current-model hits the realized rates INVERT in grade order
                   (B+ 0.593 < B 0.614 < C+ 0.623), so the served function steps
                   down at raw 0.78. Its shipped constants come from 3,417 props
                   pooled across four batter stats and do not reproduce here
  D raw identity   43.1% coverage  0.24866  certifies raw 0.50-0.60 and only there

Raw is candidate D, not a fallback. It earns exactly one region (holdout error
+0.010 on n=1,316), which is why the law is "raw must earn its region" rather
than "raw is never true". B already covers that region, so no hybrid is built.

Above raw 0.80 nothing is certified and nothing is served. That is the region
where raw is most wrong, isotonic over-corrects (cert err -0.093) and its LODO
mapping at 0.95 has spread 0.180. 8.7% of holdout rows land there.

The registry did not need changing. `serves(stat, p)` already tested certified
bands against the RAW p_win — support in the input domain, the correct question —
and returned {serve:false, reason}. It never said "serve raw". The output-space
gate and the raw fallback were both invented downstream in calibrationService.

ACTIVATION IS OFF. PROBABILITY_CONTRACT_SHADOW defaults to 0, CALIBRATION_DEPLOYED
stays frozen empty, and every served field is byte-identical. This releases the
support first, which is the required order. The shadow records raw belief, the
candidate served value, the state, the estimator identity, and what EV/Kelly/VALUE
would be under the actionability law — into its own column, read by nothing.

Migration 051 was applied to production BEFORE retentionService named the column.
PostgREST builds a bulk insert from the first row's shape, so a key whose column
does not exist 400s the whole batch silently — that is how migration 038 took
retention down for three days.

The user-facing contradiction is NOT fixed here. A B+ still says "realized about
66%" beside a confidence of 84. Fixing that is activation, and activation costs
32% of VALUE flags and 46% of Kelly recommendations on the holdout.

Suite 401/401, 5,580 passed, 4 skipped, deterministic across three runs.
Teeth 23/23, each independently injected and restored byte-identically.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CQJeAG8vcDoL5zkiaJyVb8
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@@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ function rowsFromSides(base, sides, ctx = {}) {
// rows is silently dropped for the whole batch. Filled by
// `mergeChainShadow` after enrichment; never read by anything served.
chain_shadow: null,
// The PROBABILITY CONTRACT shadow — what the certified serving contract
// WOULD serve, beside what was actually served. Declared always, for the
// same first-row-shape reason as chain_shadow. Filled by
// `mergeProbabilityContract`; SHADOW ONLY, read by nothing served.
probability_contract: null,
});
}
return rows;
@@ -825,6 +831,61 @@ function mergeEnrichment(rows, enrichedGrades) {
* keeping, and a fabricated third of a triple would poison the adjudication this
* column exists to enable.
*/
/**
* PROBABILITY CONTRACT SHADOW.
*
* Records, per row: the raw model belief, what the certified contract would
* serve, the state, the estimator identity, and what EV/Kelly/VALUE would be
* under the actionability law. It writes to its own column and mutates nothing
* a user sees — `p_win`, `confidence`, `grade`, `ev_pct`, `value` and
* `takeable` on the row are untouched.
*
* The raw probability is ALWAYS carried, including on refusals: it is model
* evidence, and a row that records only the refusal cannot be re-adjudicated.
*/
function mergeProbabilityContract(rows, contract) {
if (!Array.isArray(rows) || !rows.length) return rows || [];
if (!contract || typeof contract.resolve !== 'function') return rows;
const pc = require('./model/probabilityContract');
return rows.map((r) => {
let res;
try {
res = contract.resolve({ model_version: r.model_version, p_win: numOrNull(r.p_win) });
} catch { return r; }
if (!res) return r;
let derived;
// The SIDE'S price. A retention row carries book_odds plus both sides'
// prices; using the wrong side would price the opposite bet.
const sideOdds = r.book_odds != null ? r.book_odds
: (String(r.side) === 'under' ? r.under_odds : r.over_odds);
try { derived = pc.derivedClaims(res, sideOdds); } catch { derived = null; }
return {
...r,
probability_contract: {
raw_model_probability: res.raw_model_probability,
served_probability: res.served_probability,
probability_state: res.probability_state,
estimator_type: res.estimator_type,
estimator_version: res.estimator_version,
certification_version: res.certification_version,
model_version: res.model_version,
reason: res.reason,
fitted_through: contract.fitted_through || null,
fit_n: contract.fit_n || null,
derived: derived ? {
available: derived.available,
ev_pct: derived.ev_pct,
kelly_pct: derived.kelly ? derived.kelly.pct : null,
value: derived.value,
} : null,
// SHADOW. Nothing here has been served to anyone.
servable: false,
},
};
});
}
function mergeChainShadow(rows, shadow) {
if (!Array.isArray(rows) || !rows.length) return rows || [];
const byKey = shadow && shadow.byKey;
@@ -1183,6 +1244,7 @@ module.exports = {
createCollector,
mergeEnrichment,
mergeChainShadow,
mergeProbabilityContract,
persist,
attachLineage,
commitPublication,