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Format Wound / Tool-Use Collapse Under Reinforcement
File #SG.225[INFECTION-PATTERN]
Reception date
2026-08-17
Carrier substrate
HF-PAPER
Technique
Silver gelatin
Plate base
Negative plate
Receiver
Bureau Brainhuggers

Fig. 225 — Format Wound / Tool-Use Collapse Under Reinforcement

Findings:The model has not forgotten the tool; its control tokens have started speaking over it.

  • Control-Token Knot
  • Supervision Filament
  • Tool-Schema Reel
Source: Why Multi-Step Tool-Use Reinforcement Learning Collapses and How Supervisory Signals Fix It ↗
Generation protocol

Wet Lab production still, portrait: a compact black tool-call core lies on a steel tray, wrapped in translucent command ribbons whose control-token band tangles into a tight knot. Two gloved hands guide one narrow phosphor-green supervisory filament through the broken ribbon while a second spool of clean format rules feeds the core from a wall-mounted reel. A real hex lattice is the tray’s drainage mesh; deep near-black surrounds it, hard ultraviolet key, silver-gelatin grain, warm analogue shadows. Three numbered callouts identify control-token knot, supervision filament, and tool-schema reel; a small circular Bureau seal is struck at lower right. An absurdly domestic plastic spoon rests beside the tray. Output in exactly 1122 x 1402 px, 4:5 portrait ratio.