A with the fixed metric: still PASSES A1 and A2 in both configurations - flat 0.26 -> 2.82 (proposed) and 0.35 -> 0.77 (reading 3), canonical 6.32 -> 8.49 and 9.00 -> 10.44 - but a correction to the first report: for reading 3 on the flat families step A (0.77) beats our step and NOT bisection (0.99); the first run said 1.16. B (outcome memory) FAILS its falsifier: flat 0.31 -> 0.97 and 0.58 -> 0.82 (B1 holds) but canonical 4.74 -> 2.49 and 5.52 -> 2.12 (B2 fails), bisecting on 66% and 53% of canonical states. Mechanism: the known trap - a good step can collapse the error without moving the bracket, so an outcome measured in bracket shrink condemns it; the same trap that sank the bracket-progress gate (4449) and the bracket guard (7260).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
