# Benchmark Decision Record — Intentional Fail Fixture

- **Cycle ID:** `2026-03-09-bad`
- **Date:** `2026-03-09`
- **Artifacts:**
  - Baseline run summary: `ai_research/benchmarks/runs/2026-03-08/summary.json`
  - Target run summary: `ai_research/benchmarks/runs/2026-03-09/summary.json`

## 1) Hypothesis
- **Hypothesis:** fixture
- **Reasoning:** fixture
- **Expected outcome:** fixture

## 2) Change Summary
- **Change made:** fixture
- **Files touched:** fixture
- **Why now:** fixture

## 3) Benchmark Impact (by class)
| Class | Before (metric) | After (metric) | Delta | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `agi_repo_main_pycompile` | baseline unavailable | target unavailable | unknown | incomplete |

## 4) Negative Results / Risks
- **Negative findings:** placeholder
- **Observed regressions/concerns:** placeholder
- **Mitigations attempted:** placeholder

## 5) Decision
- **Decision:** `PASS`
- **Outcome Type:** `invalid-type`
- **Rationale:** intentionally invalid value for outcome_type to exercise gate failure behavior.
- **Artifacts confirming decision:**
  - baseline and target summaries only (fixture intentionally incomplete)

## 7) Next Actions
- **Immediate next action:** replace this file with a full valid outcome record
- **Follow-up experiments:**
  - keep as intentional fixture for checker tests

## 9) Gate Validation Evidence
- **Command:** `python3 ai_research/benchmarks/check_cycle_decision.py --cycle-decision-file ai_research/benchmarks/CYCLE_DECISION_2026-03-09-fail-intent.md --baseline-run 2026-03-08 --target-run 2026-03-09`
- **Validation status:** `FAIL (expected)`
- **Evidence log:** [`CYCLE_DECISION_GATE_FAIL.log`](CYCLE_DECISION_GATE_FAIL.log)