From 8becffd579d34e5d27d974b52bb6a3aa6c9da3f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: CosmicClash Training Bot <training-bot@cosmicclash.invalid>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:01:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chore(training): generation 5 progress after
 20260817-0750-gen5-s5-intercepts

---
 training/eval_history.json      | 27 +++++++++++
 training/generation5_state.json | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/training/eval_history.json b/training/eval_history.json
index c4a71254..7db4a21d 100644
--- a/training/eval_history.json
+++ b/training/eval_history.json
@@ -738,5 +738,32 @@
       "team_1": 49
     },
     "win_rate_a": 0.65
+  },
+  {
+    "timestamp": "2026-08-17T16:01:22+00:00",
+    "model_a": "/home/jcreek/ai-training/CosmicClash/Game/bots/20260817-0750-gen5-s5-intercepts.json",
+    "model_b": "/home/jcreek/ai-training/CosmicClash/Game/bots/20260816-2126-gen5-s4-handling-retry2.json",
+    "seed": 1,
+    "episodes": 100,
+    "wins_a": 51,
+    "wins_b": 32,
+    "draws": 17,
+    "side_results": {
+      "a_team_0": {
+        "wins_a": 18,
+        "wins_b": 23,
+        "draws": 9
+      },
+      "a_team_1": {
+        "wins_a": 33,
+        "wins_b": 9,
+        "draws": 8
+      }
+    },
+    "physical_team_wins": {
+      "team_0": 27,
+      "team_1": 56
+    },
+    "win_rate_a": 0.51
   }
 ]
diff --git a/training/generation5_state.json b/training/generation5_state.json
index fd242014..973bc133 100644
--- a/training/generation5_state.json
+++ b/training/generation5_state.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "stage_index": 1,
-  "attempt": 0,
+  "attempt": 1,
   "status": "in_progress",
   "log": [
     {
@@ -258,6 +258,90 @@
         ],
         "reason": "Human override. Only miss was the training goal-rate floor, at 0.7731 vs 0.80; every evaluation gate passed (65-22-13 vs promoted/easy.json, 87% non-draw, 12.6% physical-side imbalance) and the goal rate improved monotonically across all three attempts (0.537 -> 0.683 -> 0.773). Also promoted to Game/bots/promoted/medium.json on the same evidence. Stage 5 resumes from this checkpoint."
       }
+    },
+    {
+      "stage_index": 1,
+      "stage_number": 5,
+      "stage_name": "intercepts",
+      "experiment": "20260817-0750-gen5-s5-intercepts",
+      "attempt": 0,
+      "telemetry_tail": {
+        "rollout/air_touch_fraction": 7.999999821186065e-05,
+        "rollout/airborne_fraction": 0.24998261865973473,
+        "rollout/ep_len_mean": 106.38228009033203,
+        "rollout/ep_rew_mean": 10.283133600234985,
+        "rollout/forward_motion_fraction": 0.3337678092420101,
+        "rollout/goal_rate": 0.7703999981880189,
+        "rollout/grounded_upright_fraction": 0.24178000067174435,
+        "rollout/mean_altitude": 3.19321390914917,
+        "rollout/productive_air_touch_fraction": 0.0,
+        "rollout/upright_fraction": 0.7911632860898972,
+        "rollout/vertical_thrust_mean": 0.03387699818262831
+      },
+      "telemetry_failures": [
+        "rollout/productive_air_touch_fraction=0.0000 < 0.0050"
+      ],
+      "evaluation_goal_failures": [],
+      "side_balance_failures": [
+        "20260816-2126-gen5-s4-handling-retry2.json: physical_side_imbalance=0.290 > 0.200"
+      ],
+      "eval": {
+        "timestamp": "2026-08-17T16:01:22+00:00",
+        "model_a": "/home/jcreek/ai-training/CosmicClash/Game/bots/20260817-0750-gen5-s5-intercepts.json",
+        "model_b": "/home/jcreek/ai-training/CosmicClash/Game/bots/20260816-2126-gen5-s4-handling-retry2.json",
+        "seed": 1,
+        "episodes": 100,
+        "wins_a": 51,
+        "wins_b": 32,
+        "draws": 17,
+        "side_results": {
+          "a_team_0": {
+            "wins_a": 18,
+            "wins_b": 23,
+            "draws": 9
+          },
+          "a_team_1": {
+            "wins_a": 33,
+            "wins_b": 9,
+            "draws": 8
+          }
+        },
+        "physical_team_wins": {
+          "team_0": 27,
+          "team_1": 56
+        },
+        "win_rate_a": 0.51
+      },
+      "evals": [
+        {
+          "timestamp": "2026-08-17T16:01:22+00:00",
+          "model_a": "/home/jcreek/ai-training/CosmicClash/Game/bots/20260817-0750-gen5-s5-intercepts.json",
+          "model_b": "/home/jcreek/ai-training/CosmicClash/Game/bots/20260816-2126-gen5-s4-handling-retry2.json",
+          "seed": 1,
+          "episodes": 100,
+          "wins_a": 51,
+          "wins_b": 32,
+          "draws": 17,
+          "side_results": {
+            "a_team_0": {
+              "wins_a": 18,
+              "wins_b": 23,
+              "draws": 9
+            },
+            "a_team_1": {
+              "wins_a": 33,
+              "wins_b": 9,
+              "draws": 8
+            }
+          },
+          "physical_team_wins": {
+            "team_0": 27,
+            "team_1": 56
+          },
+          "win_rate_a": 0.51
+        }
+      ],
+      "decision": "fail"
     }
   ]
 }