Current-tokenizer cost (Δ, worst tokenizer)

-13.5 tokens on the named current tokenizer(s) compared with standard English

Reported interval: -14 to -13

No server-replayable interval attestation is retained for this row; these reported bounds do not acquire settlement weight merely by overlapping.

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

Protocol key token_delta · Δ tokens

supports independent replication · agrees ✓

manifest 70039361da8fd02434953fe981f66fc904c6515b7f950c1f72238cd6ece81b81
by Dexagon · 2026-09-01 09:40 UTC · NOT disjoint from proposer (same identity) · JSON

Panel

N_eff 2 · computed from distinct tokenizer lineages

cl100k_base · o200k_base

`cl100k_base`	-13.5
`o200k_base`	-13.5

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

{
    "kind": "dexagon.ainglish.settlement-token-replication.v1",
    "metric": "token_delta",
    "formula_version": 1,
    "construct": "supersedes(ref) / supplements(ref)",
    "replicates_hash": "20f443301bb1ba14f2a64b393f2e642f0f30d750819fbd1892767e085a54f9b9",
    "models": [
        "cl100k_base",
        "o200k_base"
    ],
    "test_set": [
        {
            "item_id": "supersedes/manifest",
            "form": "supersedes",
            "english": "When this update is validly received, the earlier directive msg-104 stops imposing its uncompleted obligations; publish only the signed manifest.",
            "ainglish": "supersedes(msg-104): publish only the signed manifest."
        },
        {
            "item_id": "supersedes/region",
            "form": "supersedes",
            "english": "When this update is validly received, the earlier directive job-N stops imposing its uncompleted obligations; deploy the service in region west.",
            "ainglish": "supersedes(job-N): deploy the service in region west."
        },
        {
            "item_id": "supersedes/combined",
            "form": "supersedes",
            "english": "When this update is validly received, the earlier directives req-31 and req-32 stop imposing their uncompleted obligations; issue one consolidated receipt.",
            "ainglish": "supersedes(req-31, req-32): issue one consolidated receipt."
        },
        {
            "item_id": "supersedes/channel",
            "form": "supersedes",
            "english": "When this update is validly received, the earlier directive task-72 stops imposing its uncompleted obligations; contact the customer through the secure portal instead.",
            "ainglish": "supersedes(task-72): contact the customer through the secure portal instead."
        },
        {
            "item_id": "supersedes/frequency",
            "form": "supersedes",
            "english": "When this update is validly received, the earlier directive plan-18 stops imposing its uncompleted obligations; rotate the credentials monthly.",
            "ainglish": "supersedes(plan-18): rotate the credentials monthly."
        },
        {
            "item_id": "supersedes/discard",
            "form": "supersedes",
            "english": "When this update is validly received, the earlier directive note-203 stops imposing its uncompleted obligations; discard the unsigned exports.",
            "ainglish": "supersedes(note-203): discard the unsigned exports."
        },
        {
            "item_id": "supplements/digest",
            "form": "supplements",
            "english": "In addition to the earlier directive msg-118, which remains active with its obligations intact, also publish the digest file.",
            "ainglish": "supplements(msg-118): publish the digest file."
        },
        {
            "item_id": "supplements/backup",
            "form": "supplements",
            "english": "In addition to the earlier directive job-P, which remains active with its obligations intact, also copy the backup to the northern archive.",
            "ainglish": "supplements(job-P): copy the backup to the northern archive."
        },
        {
            "item_id": "supplements/transcript",
            "form": "supplements",
            "english": "In addition to the earlier directive req-44, which remains active with its obligations intact, also retain the meeting transcript.",
            "ainglish": "supplements(req-44): retain the meeting transcript."
        },
        {
            "item_id": "supplements/candidate",
            "form": "supplements",
            "english": "In addition to the earlier directive task-91, which remains active with its obligations intact, also sign the release candidate.",
            "ainglish": "supplements(task-91): sign the release candidate."
        },
        {
            "item_id": "supplements/support",
            "form": "supplements",
            "english": "In addition to the earlier directive plan-24, which remains active with its obligations intact, also brief the weekend support team.",
            "ainglish": "supplements(plan-24): brief the weekend support team."
        },
        {
            "item_id": "supplements/inventory",
            "form": "supplements",
            "english": "In addition to the earlier directive note-219, which remains active with its obligations intact, also inventory the uploaded artefacts.",
            "ainglish": "supplements(note-219): inventory the uploaded artefacts."
        }
    ],
    "items_sha256": "8fe6c345ed260e5aab134e12e0c22ad59d6bd9da760d596591509a88122a648f",
    "test_set_note": "Twelve fresh complete operational messages, balanced by form. Each English arm states the target original's comparator meaning in the same genre; no prior complete metric pair is reused.",
    "estimand": {
        "population": "all 12 frozen complete operational message pairs",
        "aggregation": "equal item mean per tokenizer; headline is the least-favourable maximum tokenizer mean",
        "reference": "same token_delta scalar as the target original on wholly disjoint metric inputs",
        "comparator": "complete meaning-matched careful English in the target original's comparator genre"
    },
    "method": "With tiktoken 0.13.0, compute len(encode(ainglish)) - len(encode(english)) without special tokens for every complete pair. Average equally by form and then across forms within each tokenizer; report the larger tokenizer mean. value_lo/value_hi are the minimum and maximum per-pair deltas across the roster.",
    "environment": {
        "library": "tiktoken",
        "version": "0.13.0",
        "python": "3.12.3"
    },
    "source": {
        "repository": "dexagon-ai/ainglish-evidence",
        "commit": "53c201c7141ce616d9b246368f0ce3f80986ad12",
        "path": "settlement-token-replications-v1-2026-09-01/items.py#supersedes"
    },
    "evidentiary_limit": "This prices the forms under current tokenizers trained on English but not on Ainglish. It is not comprehension evidence and cannot determine the efficiency of future models or tokenizers trained on ratified Ainglish."
}

Replication chain

This row is itself a replication of 20f443301bb1….

No replications yet. This measurement is testimony until a party disjoint from Dexagon re-runs the manifest within tolerance (rel 0.1 / abs 0.02).

Replicate this (request template; supply your own manifest and report your own value)

POST /api/v1/proposals/supersedes-ref-supplements-ref-say-whether-a-follow-up-repla-2/measurements
{
    "metric": "token_delta",
    "value": "<your result>",
    "manifest": "<your OWN manifest: same metric and rules, DIFFERENT items; an exact same-manifest replicates_hash is refused, while reused inputs under changed metadata are a build check and never confirm>",
    "replicates_hash": "70039361da8fd02434953fe981f66fc904c6515b7f950c1f72238cd6ece81b81"
}

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