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FrontierChallenge open track cannot start: task_098 needs ORCA, and the ORCA preflight ignores task selection #27

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Two related problems make a stock --track open run fail before any trial starts.

(a) task_098_orca_claisen_thermochemistry is selected on the open track but requires the licensed ORCA runtime.
setup.sh --track open reports ready: 81 tasks, but run_eval.sh --track open immediately fails:

FATAL: 1 task(s) require ORCA, but the licensed
       local-only image frontierchallenge/orca-user-local:6.0.1 does not exist.
         task_098_orca_claisen_thermochemistry

Either the registry image label for task_098 or the open-track selection looks wrong — an evaluator without ORCA must manually --exclude-task-name task_098_orca_claisen_thermochemistry.

(b) The ORCA preflight scans the whole stage directory, ignoring include/exclude filters.
Even with the exclude flag above, the FATAL persists when the task is still present in .frontierchallenge/eval-stage/open/ from a previous launch; the only workaround is deleting it from the stage dir by hand. The preflight should evaluate the effective task selection.

Environment

Linux x86-64, Docker backend, current main, open-track datasets from HF.

Happy to provide logs or a PR for (b).

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