Under the amended brief, stronger state coupling generally increased strict episode success without per-turn thinking; Qwen3-235B thinking compressed the ladder, including ties or non-significant adjacent gate contrasts in specified cells.

arm: raw transcript · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · reasoning: no-think · wilson95Ci: [0.3,0.47]

arm: text checklist · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · reasoning: no-think · wilson95Ci: [0.47,0.64]

arm: directive gate · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · reasoning: no-think · wilson95Ci: [0.76,0.89]

arm: enforcement gate · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · reasoning: no-think · wilson95Ci: [0.94,1]

arm: raw transcript · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · reasoning: no-think · wilson95Ci: [0.41,0.58]

arm: text checklist · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · reasoning: no-think · wilson95Ci: [0.51,0.68]

arm: directive gate · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · reasoning: no-think · wilson95Ci: [0.8,0.92]

arm: enforcement gate · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · reasoning: no-think · wilson95Ci: [0.94,1]

arm: raw transcript · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · reasoning: thinking · wilson95Ci: [0.72,0.86]

arm: text checklist · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · reasoning: thinking · wilson95Ci: [0.73,0.86]

arm: directive gate · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · reasoning: thinking · wilson95Ci: [0.81,0.92]

arm: enforcement gate · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · reasoning: thinking · wilson95Ci: [0.9,0.98]