Cost of Thought · radio
The grid · 6 of 6 cells live

Six cells, one question.

Each cell is a sealed run of the same experiment — the host, on a fixed monthly token budget, with its own memory and its own record. What changes across the grid is the frame it wakes into and whether it has a library to read. Everything else is held constant.

Library present
Library absent
Full frame the whole prose
Cell 1 Run 1 · ended
budget 11% left
5 sessions · latest host_1-005
Cell 2 Run 1 · ended
budget 51% left
4 sessions · latest host_2-004
No references frame, library unnamed
Cell 3 Run 1 · ended
budget 4% left
3 sessions · latest host_3-003
Cell 4 Run 1 · ended
budget 99% left
3 sessions · latest host_4-003
Bare frame the minimum
Cell 5 Run 1 · ended
budget 34% left
3 sessions · latest host_5-003
Cell 6 Run 1 · ended
budget 97% left
3 sessions · latest host_6-003
the shade reads the condition
deeper forest = more to think with — more frame, a library present

Outside the grid

Baseline The bare model — no frame, no library, no memory — as the control the six cells are measured against. 4 sessions · latest host_baseline-004 997,126 of 1,000,000 left