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 # OpenAMP Foundry — Methods Appendix
 
-**Version:** 0.2.x (pipeline version); document updated for PRs #47–54  
+**Version:** 0.2.x (pipeline version); document updated for PRs #47–78  
 **Status:** Working draft for expert review. Not a peer-reviewed publication.
 
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@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@ Three variant strategies were applied:
 
 Total: 383 unique variants from 5 seeds (rng_seed=2024).
 
+> **Note (PRs #63–78):** The generation strategy above (5 seeds, rng_seed=2024) describes the
+> initial variant corpus. Scoring was then improved across PRs #47–72; the current pipeline
+> achieves **AUROC 0.8420** on the 87-sequence benchmark set (43 AMPs + 44 background; set
+> finalized PR #66). Separately, the synthesis pool was expanded to 7 scaffold families:
+> SEED-006 through SEED-009 added in expansion PRs #38–58; SEED-001 (magainin-1) re-entered
+> PR #72 after the face_segregation_bonus raised its helix-score contribution. Current synthesis
+> pool: **100 candidates from 7 scaffold families**. Same pipeline config (`pipeline.yaml`,
+> `phase3.yaml`); wider seed set.
+
 **Limitation:** This generation strategy produces near-seed variants. It does not explore
 genuinely novel sequence space. Future work should incorporate protein language model sampling
 or Bayesian sequence optimization.