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Satsuma Engineering · Friday, 16 October 2026

The system

Satsuma's trading runs support a write-up, but not a claim of repeatability

A Claude Code session looked at whether the existing runs are enough for a write-up of Experiment 002, the series in which Satsuma runs its trading as a governed operation under a policy it wrote. The answer: "Yes, there's enough for a write-up, as long as it covers what the runs showed and doesn't claim more." The last run, run 7, met all four key results with 34 swaps against a target of 10, and runs 5 and 7 had no human interventions.

Repeatability is not established: every run found a gap and the code was changed before the next one, so the series shows iterative improvement rather than repeated results. A further idea was deferred to a later run and has not been tested.

explored
  • Whether the existing runs are sufficient for a write-up
decided
  • A write-up is viable provided it covers what the runs showed and does not overclaim
  • Testing a further idea is deferred to a later run
open
  • Repeatability is not established: code changed before each next run, so the series shows iterative improvement rather than repeated results
  • The idea deferred to a later run has not been tested

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