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 ### Additional informal/multi-part live checks
 
+Timed `reports/clean-v3-search-quality-2026-09-17T21-22-21-304Z.json`: Firefox 31.0s/five rounds, tool execution 5.779s; news 69.8s/eight rounds, tool execution 1.672s. Remaining time includes inference, streaming and orchestration—not proven pure GPU time. The source-link retry still failed on Firefox. Main observed delay is outside tool execution, not search-provider time in these cached runs.
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+`4b6a9721` applies the explicit-query requirement to initial calls too: the weekly-news trace had copied a whole compound request into a missing query. Regression suites: 1,249 passed. Weekly-news replay launched. `reports/search-synthesis-probe-1789680251422.json` feeds the saved Firefox evidence to the same model without live recovery history/offered tools: canonical-system answer took 4.98s and concise research-system answer 4.66s; both supplied a link. This proves the model can emit the link in simplified context, not factual correctness—the linked support page was access-blocked, and some feature assertions still need grounding. Do not infer the system prompt alone or lack of tool schemas uniquely explains the difference.
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 `reports/clean-v3-search-quality-2026-09-17T21-20-16-154Z.json`: rejecting fabricated follow-up queries did not yield a latency win; typo-news used eight rounds/57.6 seconds and still lacked source URLs. Natural weekly-news request returned a failure in 27.0 seconds. Do not claim speed improvement. `7a3e1567` exposes measured execution time per tool (separate from total runtime) in live reports, and recognizes explicit imperative source requests such as “link the instructions” that the prior link-noun patterns missed. Related suites: 1,226 passed; timed news/privacy replay running. Additional completion retries are not a substitute for auditing the underlying answer generation.
 
 `reports/clean-v3-search-quality-2026-09-17T21-18-22-350Z.json` remains unsatisfactory: Mozilla lookup 13.9s failed to locate documentation, multi-part privacy request 22.0s omitted requested links and details, Chrome follow-up 28.8s supplied generic homepages instead of comparison. Do not promote based on mechanics.