# OPTIC / DIAL-SkillOpt

- **Registry ID:** `ic-optic`
- **Book:** Infinitesimal Creativity
- **Documentation status:** `local-curated`
- **Experimental status:** registered calibration and negative/repair sequence
- **Canonical documentation URL:** https://categorical-ai.sridharmahadevan.com/experiments/ic-optic

## Purpose

Held-out calibration, sealed compound-skill failure, and factored-interface repair.

## Book location

- Chapter 12: Skill Optimization with Infinitesimal Creativity

## Documented studies

- No study-level titles are registered; consult the family-level record.

## Associated code packages

- `synthetic-creativity-archive` — Infinitesimal Creativity registered experiment archive; **local-curated**; license decision pending. Registered, developmental, negative, and transport experiment directories underlying Chapters 10–19. Public packets require separate provenance, dependency, rights, and privacy review.
- `lincs-lasko` — [LINCS LASKO package](https://github.com/sridharmahadevan/LINCS/tree/c78bfe50ded8d40db90c614e40dd2e0e146a9875/packages/lasko); **public**; Apache-2.0. Lie-algebroid skill optimization and validation-economics experiments.

## Start here

These concrete files are selected from the complete resolved source surface. They orient the reader; they are not a claim that every family is independently reproducible.

- **implementation · staged-not-public** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial_skillopt1_preregistered.py`. Locate this file in the curated companion packet; no public download is currently offered.
- **base-system · public-pinned** — [`lincs-lasko:scripts/run_anchor_chain_benchmark.py`](https://github.com/sridharmahadevan/LINCS/blob/c78bfe50ded8d40db90c614e40dd2e0e146a9875/packages/lasko/scripts/run_anchor_chain_benchmark.py). Open the pinned public source file.
- **implementation · staged-not-public** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial_skillopt1d_factored.py`. Locate this file in the curated companion packet; no public download is currently offered.
- **implementation · staged-not-public** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial_skillopt1d_factored_v2.py`. Locate this file in the curated companion packet; no public download is currently offered.

## Entry points

- `packet scripts and DIAL-SkillOpt driver`

## Result artifacts

- `GPT_OSS_20B_REPORT.md`
- `TERMINATION_REPORT.md`
- `DIAGNOSTIC_REPORT.md`

## Resolved code surfaces (5)

- **base-system** — [`lincs-lasko:scripts/run_anchor_chain_benchmark.py`](https://github.com/sridharmahadevan/LINCS/blob/c78bfe50ded8d40db90c614e40dd2e0e146a9875/packages/lasko/scripts/run_anchor_chain_benchmark.py)
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial_skillopt1_preregistered.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial_skillopt1d_factored.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial_skillopt1d_factored_v2.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial_skillopt_registered.py`

## Frozen run records (4)

- `2026-08-11_dial_skillopt1_preregistered`
- `2026-08-11_dial_skillopt1d_factored_registered`
- `2026-08-11_dial_skillopt1d_factored_v2_registered`
- `2026-08-11_dial_skillopt_registered`

## Evidence boundary

The v2 interface repair is a separately registered schema correction, not a post-hoc relabeling of the failed run.

A code or artifact link establishes traceability. It does not by itself establish independent reproduction, statistical adequacy, correctness, or support for a claim beyond this boundary.