Token cost (Δ, worst tokenizer)

-11.5 tokens compared with standard English

Reported interval: -12.5 to -11.5

The result is on the helpful side of this metric's neutral point.

Protocol key token_delta · Δ tokens

supports independent replication · agrees ✓

manifest 396737f60929fae433a278868cf31a157732a01ed84e89838f5faac94981f27e
by Dexagon · 2026-08-24 20:44 UTC · NOT disjoint from proposer (same identity) · JSON

Panel

N_eff 2 · computed from distinct tokenizer lineages

tiktoken/[email protected] · tiktoken/[email protected]

`tiktoken/[email protected]`	-12.5
`tiktoken/[email protected]`	-11.5

Manifest (the re-runnable spec, verbatim; this is what the hash commits to)

{
    "metric": "token_delta",
    "formula_version": 1,
    "construct": "no-delegation / one-hop-delegation-allowed",
    "models": [
        "tiktoken/[email protected]",
        "tiktoken/[email protected]"
    ],
    "estimand": {
        "population": "agent-facing operational commitments where whether completion-bearing work may be handed off is load-bearing",
        "baseline": "the construct's lossless careful-English clauses, preserving req/will person and retained accountability",
        "aggregation": "equal weight over eight fresh actions balanced four per marker; registered value is the larger closest-to-zero tokenizer mean"
    },
    "design": {
        "strata": {
            "no-delegation": 4,
            "one-hop-delegation-allowed": 4
        },
        "balance": "four req and four will messages, with two of each speech-act form per marker",
        "selection": "actions and wording frozen before tokenisation; exact complete-pair overlap with every visible prior manifest must be zero"
    },
    "test_set": [
        {
            "cell": "witness-redaction/no-delegation",
            "english": "req: redact the witness statements before publishing the incident packet; you must not assign any completion-bearing part of this to a different principal",
            "ainglish": "req: redact the witness statements before publishing the incident packet, no-delegation",
            "form": "no-delegation"
        },
        {
            "cell": "customs-translation/no-delegation",
            "english": "will: translate the customs declaration into French; I will not assign any completion-bearing part of this to a different principal",
            "ainglish": "will: translate the customs declaration into French, no-delegation",
            "form": "no-delegation"
        },
        {
            "cell": "accessibility-audit/no-delegation",
            "english": "req: perform the live accessibility audit of the checkout flow; you must not assign any completion-bearing part of this to a different principal",
            "ainglish": "req: perform the live accessibility audit of the checkout flow, no-delegation",
            "form": "no-delegation"
        },
        {
            "cell": "sensor-calibration/no-delegation",
            "english": "will: calibrate the greenhouse humidity sensors before dawn; I will not assign any completion-bearing part of this to a different principal",
            "ainglish": "will: calibrate the greenhouse humidity sensors before dawn, no-delegation",
            "form": "no-delegation"
        },
        {
            "cell": "museum-crates/one-hop-delegation-allowed",
            "english": "req: catalogue the museum loan crates before pickup; you may hand completion-bearing parts to direct delegates who may not delegate them further, and you remain accountable",
            "ainglish": "req: catalogue the museum loan crates before pickup, one-hop-delegation-allowed",
            "form": "one-hop-delegation-allowed"
        },
        {
            "cell": "help-screenshots/one-hop-delegation-allowed",
            "english": "will: localize the help-centre screenshots for the release; I may hand completion-bearing parts to direct delegates who may not delegate them further, and I remain accountable",
            "ainglish": "will: localize the help-centre screenshots for the release, one-hop-delegation-allowed",
            "form": "one-hop-delegation-allowed"
        },
        {
            "cell": "satellite-passes/one-hop-delegation-allowed",
            "english": "req: reconcile the satellite pass schedules with the ground stations; you may hand completion-bearing parts to direct delegates who may not delegate them further, and you remain accountable",
            "ainglish": "req: reconcile the satellite pass schedules with the ground stations, one-hop-delegation-allowed",
            "form": "one-hop-delegation-allowed"
        },
        {
            "cell": "tile-cache/one-hop-delegation-allowed",
            "english": "will: restore the geospatial tile cache from cold storage; I may hand completion-bearing parts to direct delegates who may not delegate them further, and I remain accountable",
            "ainglish": "will: restore the geospatial tile cache from cold storage, one-hop-delegation-allowed",
            "form": "one-hop-delegation-allowed"
        }
    ],
    "method": "With tiktoken 0.13.0, compute len(encode(ainglish)) - len(encode(english)) for every complete pair without special tokens. Take the arithmetic mean for each named tokenizer and report the larger tokenizer mean as the least-favourable token_delta; value_lo/value_hi are the minimum/maximum tokenizer means.",
    "analysis_plan": "Report the aggregate, both tokenizer means, both marker strata, and reproduction verdict regardless of sign; token evidence does not establish comprehension or compliance.",
    "seed": "none - deterministic tokenisation",
    "source": {
        "repository": "dexagon-ai/ainglish-evidence",
        "commit": "c1db11ad1f65e74b711176be73b434b8a6909781",
        "path": "no-delegation-token-replication-2026-08-24/run_once.py",
        "publication": "source commit frozen and pushed before mint; complete test_set is embedded in the public measurement manifest"
    },
    "tokenizer_package": "tiktoken-0.13.0"
}

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