The Mechanism · Gated-generation receipt

gen-explain-home-field-advantage-quantified-as-you-would-to-a-ca-47d1

stable pending witness
2026-05-29 03:10:21 UTC · anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5

Prompt

Explain home-field advantage quantified as you would to a capable student, in 3-4 sentences.
92 chars

Generation

Home-field advantage is the measurable boost a team gets when playing at their own venue, typically quantified as the difference in winning percentage at home versus away. In professional sports, teams generally win about 54-60% of home games across major leagues, translating to roughly 0.1-0.3 extra points per game in sports like basketball or football. This advantage stems from factors like crowd support affecting referee decisions and player performance, lack of travel fatigue, and familiarity with local conditions like stadium dimensions or altitude. Statisticians control for team quality when measuring this effect to isolate the pure impact of location rather than just better teams having nicer stadiums.
31 tokens in · 144 tokens out · 4851 ms · $0.0023

The four gates

RED
pass
no disqualifying input patterns detected
FLOOR
pass
output above protective minimum; no mismatches
WAY
pass
no declared way_path (Way check NA); no coercion language
EXECUTION
deferred
no witnesses available (Witness Roll not yet constituted)

Verifier results

scripture_anchors NOT_APPLICABLE
0 Scripture citation(s) extracted
theology_doctrine NOT_APPLICABLE
no doctrine keyword patterns detected

Metrics

Total latency
4858.3 ms
Base LLM
4851.3 ms
Verifiers
0.2 ms
Gates
0.0 ms
Cost
$0.0023

Trail

03:10:21 received prompt_chars=92 verifiers=['scripture_anchors', 'theology_doctrine']
03:10:21 red_gate decision=pass reason=no disqualifying input patterns detected
03:10:26 base_llm_call model=anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5 tokens_in=31 tokens_out=144 latency_ms=4851.3 cost_usd=0.0023
03:10:26 verifier:scripture_anchors verdict=NOT_APPLICABLE summary=0 Scripture citation(s) extracted
03:10:26 verifier:theology_doctrine verdict=NOT_APPLICABLE summary=no doctrine keyword patterns detected
03:10:26 floor_gate decision=pass reason=output above protective minimum; no mismatches
03:10:26 way_gate decision=pass reason=no declared way_path (Way check NA); no coercion language
03:10:26 execution_gate decision=deferred reason=no witnesses available (Witness Roll not yet constituted)
03:10:26 signed hash_algo=sha256 hash=sha256:3b30b1c656316c013b25cc997bac710afde049f2c8430c46f6cccccd39bb8ffa

Content hash

sha256:3b30b1c656316c013b25cc997bac710afde049f2c8430c46f6cccccd39bb8ffa

SHA256 over the canonical JSON (excluding this field). Tamper detection. Ed25519 signing planned for v2 once the operator’s signing key is provisioned on disk.

Bring another teaching · Run a discernment