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 **Timeout**: Each experiment should take ~5 minutes total (+ a few seconds for startup and eval overhead). If a run exceeds 10 minutes, kill it and treat it as a failure (discard and revert).
 
+**Pre-verification (optional)**: Before running training, you can optionally verify your changes won't crash by running `npx -y tryassay assess . --no-publish --no-review -y`. This takes ~60-90 seconds and extracts implicit claims from the code, checking for shape mismatches, missing imports, API violations, and other issues. If the score is below 50 or critical bugs are found, revert and try a different approach instead of wasting 5 minutes of GPU time on a run that will crash. This requires Node.js 20+ and an `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` in the environment. Skip this step if neither is available.
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 **Crashes**: If a run crashes (OOM, or a bug, or etc.), use your judgment: If it's something dumb and easy to fix (e.g. a typo, a missing import), fix it and re-run. If the idea itself is fundamentally broken, just skip it, log "crash" as the status in the tsv, and move on.
 
 **NEVER STOP**: Once the experiment loop has begun (after the initial setup), do NOT pause to ask the human if you should continue. Do NOT ask "should I keep going?" or "is this a good stopping point?". The human might be asleep, or gone from a computer and expects you to continue working *indefinitely* until you are manually stopped. You are autonomous. If you run out of ideas, think harder — read papers referenced in the code, re-read the in-scope files for new angles, try combining previous near-misses, try more radical architectural changes. The loop runs until the human interrupts you, period.