close-out-ml-experimentlisted
Install: claude install-skill bastos/skills
# Close Out ML Experiment
End the experiment without erasing what it taught.
## Freeze evidence first
Stop active inference or training when requested, but preserve completed outputs. Do not regenerate, relabel, overwrite, move, or reinterpret raw evidence. Hash baseline and final artifacts and verify expected files before editing summaries.
Inventory:
- corpus, manifests, provenance, and exact splits;
- commands, configs, prompts, schemas, revisions, and seeds;
- logs, checkpoints, adapters, raw/normalized outputs, latency, and validator results;
- blinded packets, both judging passes, identity mappings, and reports.
## Reconcile the record
Recalculate inexpensive totals from per-case artifacts. If a report omits a category or case, preserve its measured values and add a clearly named correction or addendum. Explain the discrepancy; do not rewrite history or rerun inference to make totals agree.
## Record the decision
State:
- what changed and what stayed canonical;
- exact result deltas and hard safety failures;
- passed, failed, untested, and not-applicable gates;
- dataset and judging limitations;
- whether the evidence is a smoke, automated evaluation, model-as-judge review, or human study;
- the smallest justified next experiment or fix.
Do not claim model, product, strategic, human, device, energy, or production acceptance from narrower evidence.
## Hand off durably
Write a concise reproducible report beside the experiment evidence. If the project uses an