Across the full original-brief inventory, the no-think ladder was non-decreasing and text-rung failures remained substantial; per-turn thinking did not repair the raw transcript under the underspecified brief, while directive and enforcement performance converged at stronger models.

arm: raw transcript · brief: original · model: Qwen3.6-35B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · scoring: primary · numerator: 16 · reasoning: no-think · denominator: 128

arm: text checklist · brief: original · model: Qwen3.6-35B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · scoring: primary · numerator: 45 · reasoning: no-think · denominator: 128

arm: directive gate · brief: original · model: Qwen3.6-35B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · scoring: primary · numerator: 90 · reasoning: no-think · denominator: 128

arm: enforcement gate · brief: original · model: Qwen3.6-35B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · scoring: primary · numerator: 127 · reasoning: no-think · denominator: 128

brief: original · model: Qwen3.6-35B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · scoring: primary · contrast: raw transcript to text checklist · reasoning: no-think

brief: original · model: Qwen3.6-35B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · scoring: primary · contrast: raw transcript to text checklist · reasoning: no-think

brief: original · model: Qwen3.6-35B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · scoring: primary · contrast: text checklist to directive gate · reasoning: no-think

brief: original · model: Qwen3.6-35B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · scoring: primary · contrast: text checklist to directive gate · reasoning: no-think

brief: original · model: Qwen3.6-35B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · scoring: primary · contrast: directive gate to enforcement gate · reasoning: no-think

brief: original · model: Qwen3.6-35B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · scoring: primary · contrast: directive gate to enforcement gate · reasoning: no-think

arm: raw transcript · brief: original · model: Qwen3.6-35B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · scoring: primary · numerator: 2 · reasoning: thinking · denominator: 68

arm: text checklist · brief: original · model: Qwen3.6-35B · steps: 15 · density: 0.3 · scoring: primary · numerator: 4 · reasoning: thinking · denominator: 19