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CosmicClash/training/checkpoints
Josh Creek efda6c1a05 chore(training): Resume stage 1 unmask from its own checkpoint, not foundation
Generation 2's first two real stage-1 attempts both independently restarted
from curric-s5-aggression (reset_retry_checkpoint) with identical flags and
landed at 32% and 27% win rate vs the reference -- a real regression either
way, but too much spread between "identical" runs for repeat fresh restarts
to be a controlled test of anything. The first attempt's own trajectory
(ep_rew_mean climbing from -10.86 toward ~0 by the 240M-step cutoff,
briefly touching positive) looked closer to convergence than the second's,
so retries now continue that attempt's own checkpoint for another full
timesteps budget instead of resetting to foundation again.

Drops retry1 and retry2 (checkpoints, logs, exported bots, eval_history
entries) -- retry2 never trained meaningfully before crashing on the
GoalRateCallback bug just fixed, and retry1 was the inferior of the two
real samples. curriculum_state.json rewinds to attempt 1, in_progress, so
the next run resumes 20260726-1904-curric-s1-unmask/final.zip directly.
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