v1.0.0 — Free-Executor Paradox (Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20978074)

First public release accompanying the Zenodo preprint.

Artifacts

• Paper PDF: paper/main.pdf — 17 pages
• LaTeX source: paper/main.tex + paper/references.bib
• Markdown mirror: paper/paper.md
• Reproducibility kit: scripts/ + results/ + data harness

Citation

@misc{imoto2026freeexecutor,
  title  = {When Free Executors Cost More: The Free-Executor Paradox in Iterative LLM Code-Repair Loops},
  author = {Imoto, Ken},
  year   = {2026},
  doi    = {10.5281/zenodo.20978074},
  url    = {https://github.com/kenimo49/free-executor-paradox}
}

Notes

• Zenodo upload was done manually (not via the GitHub-Zenodo integration), so future releases will not auto-mint new DOIs. New paper versions should use Zenodo's "New version" flow from the same concept DOI (10.5281/zenodo.20978073).
• Peer review: 4 codex passes + 3 ken passes, recorded in commit history (5417a01 → da3ab60 → bafa271).