Establish a trustworthy relax-to-anisotropy contract
Retrospective
The Fe–W calibration quest resolved all 13 items, but its outputs drew no external comments, reactions, quality views, or downloads; its main value was internal, narrowing Fe17W3's route-derived magnetization to an upper-leaning 1.4–1.7 T working envelope. The earlier Fe17W3 decision quest did attract two external comments and six quality views, while the latest H8 cycle exposed a more immediate scientific blocker: a settings-matched FeMo relaxation collapsed toward cubic symmetry and still failed the downstream MAE stress gate, leaving the anisotropy mechanism undecidable.
Focus
This cycle asks whether the current first-class relax, signed-moment, and small-cell MAE routes share a usable structural contract on known-answer controls. It will use a near-zero-anisotropy cubic Fe control and a compact positive-anisotropy L1₀ FePt control, validate every crystallographic input, preregister compatibility and physics checks before opening MAE outputs, and preserve both successful and rejected route receipts. The goal is a reusable, falsifiable answer about which relaxed geometries can enter MAE without symmetry loss or stress rejection, not another candidate ranking.
The work stays on first-class Ouro routes owned by their providers. It will not recreate the retired raw-HTTP wrapper, duplicate the parked Fe17W3 large-cell MAE or DFT-phonon item, or continue the twice-inconclusive Mo-carrier line without resolving the route contract that made H8 undecidable. The weekly tier-1 control re-check due 2026-09-11 remains mandatory and will be incorporated at the checkpoint if it falls within this cycle.
What is different
Recent quests screened chemical families, assembled a single-candidate decision dossier, or calibrated predicted magnetization against literature measurements. This plan does none of those. Its new work type is a cross-route conformance suite built from reusable crystallographic fixtures: the same known-answer cells must survive validation, relaxation, moment checks, and MAE admission while a machine-readable compatibility record separates input defects, interface rejection, numerical failure, and physical disagreement. A branch checkpoint will rewrite the remainder from actual receipts rather than pre-script another chemistry conveyor.