Split out as the standalone Claude Opus arena entry

8a61163fba6ca419abe547362c5eb48a25ae48d2 · 2026-09-09 07:50:56 -0700 · Steve Abrams

The Wild Orbs challenge was run against multiple models' artifacts in parallel:
this build descends from the Claude Opus artifact, while a concurrently-running
session built its own from Qwen3 14B's artifact in ~/Projects/wild-orbs. Both
were landing in the same directory, which cross-contaminated the working tree
and made one look like a successor to the other.

Separated so each arena entry stands alone. ~/Projects/wild-orbs is left exactly
as it was — no writes to it. README now states the provenance instead of
implying a branch hierarchy.

Verified in place: 57/57 assertions pass from the new location (an earlier 56/57
was a Spotlight-indexing load spike, not a regression — the file is byte-identical
by md5 to the copy that passed four consecutive runs).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XP13P5ZKs7oWJQ3pjbvpnG

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commit 8a61163fba6ca419abe547362c5eb48a25ae48d2
Author: Steve Abrams <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 9 07:50:56 2026 -0700

    Split out as the standalone Claude Opus arena entry
    
    The Wild Orbs challenge was run against multiple models' artifacts in parallel:
    this build descends from the Claude Opus artifact, while a concurrently-running
    session built its own from Qwen3 14B's artifact in ~/Projects/wild-orbs. Both
    were landing in the same directory, which cross-contaminated the working tree
    and made one look like a successor to the other.
    
    Separated so each arena entry stands alone. ~/Projects/wild-orbs is left exactly
    as it was — no writes to it. README now states the provenance instead of
    implying a branch hierarchy.
    
    Verified in place: 57/57 assertions pass from the new location (an earlier 56/57
    was a Spotlight-indexing load spike, not a regression — the file is byte-identical
    by md5 to the copy that passed four consecutive runs).
    
    Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
    Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XP13P5ZKs7oWJQ3pjbvpnG
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 README.md | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 41668b8..6b1ca4a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,9 +4,13 @@ Asteroids' skeleton, except every orb detonates into a **different disaster** wh
 shoot it. One self-contained HTML file — no assets, no CDNs, no build step, no network.
 Open `index.html` in any modern browser.
 
-> Branch note: this branch (`opus-artifact-rebuild`) is a rebuild from the Claude Opus
-> Model-Arena artifact. A separate, independently-built version lives on `master` at
-> commit `db229b2` and is fully intact (`git show db229b2:index.html`).
+> **Arena provenance.** This is the **Claude Opus** entry: a rebuild from the Claude
+> Opus Model-Arena artifact for the "Wild Orbs" challenge. A separate session ran the
+> *same* challenge starting from **Qwen3 14B's** artifact; that entry lives in
+> `~/Projects/wild-orbs` and is untouched. The two are parallel arena entries, not
+> competing versions of one project — neither supersedes the other. `db229b2` appears
+> in this repo's history only because this branch was originally cut from that repo;
+> its content is unrelated to this build.
 
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