| External shortlist screen |
retained |
source registry records advisory priors only. |
| Qwen startup and direct preflight |
covered |
startup, basic, and tools. |
| Deterministic agentic correctness |
blocked by harness validity |
Qwen native outcomes were 16/18 and 15/18; paired GLM was 16/18 with planning false negatives from scorer ordering. |
| Qwen capacity, C4 performance, vision, deep coding, and large context |
not run |
Deferred after the strict agentic gate did not pass. |
| GLM paired scout and exact restoration |
covered |
Paired scout is retained; exact baseline identity/configuration, direct/routed checks, and router readmission passed. |
| Promotion decision |
covered |
Retain GLM; Qwen remains an interesting but unqualified candidate. |