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Current candidate: d07f6e65c5b03355182e5f6d42bef06d106aa319, a draft. Base: main 6e219231 (#998, #999 and #1000 landed).

• CI: exact-head PR CI run 40991613306 is green: 25 pass, 1 matrix placeholder skipped, release gate included.
• Merge state: clean.
• Review: the independent final-acceptance review, by a reviewer separate from the writer, returned ACCEPT on 7bd7a353. Its two optional nits are applied in bad093b2 and d07f6e65.
• Crosswalk: 6513511838.
• Authorization: none for merge.

Scope (Issue #996)

• Dimension and premises. Within A4's assumed periodic-lattice class, E5–E7 select d = 3 on the continuum branch of SM §3.1–§3.2, and the integer rank is an input. Concordance (E7) is redundant for the selection once E5 and E6 hold, but not logically dependent on them.
• Carrier and generation hypotheses. Identifying the link space with the physical carrier requires H-link. H-spin′ and H-χ′ enter the generation and chirality readings.
• Asymptotic freedom. SM Tier 3 no longer claims N_c ≥ 3 is necessary for asymptotic freedom; SU(2) with SM matter (b₂ = −19/6) is a counterexample. A dimensionless coupling alone does not establish asymptotic freedom.
• Chemistry chains. Complexity, Explainer, Computation and book ch00/02/05/10–13 and the preface carry the conditional scope. Complexity's fine-tuning and anthropic sections no longer claim that embedded observation alone excludes other structures.

Correction round on owner handover (from 613632e4)

• Restored the 15 display-math lines that the integration commit bd8fa74d had collapsed.
• Resolved the Complexity contradictions with §3.4.
• Corrected E7's logical status in SM and GR.
• Propagated to Computation, Explainer, the preface and chapters 00/10/12.
• Addressed the nits, rebuilt every affected publication canonically (each .tex byte-reproduced in review) and regenerated SC-42.
  • SC-42 passes 498 predicates. The non-mirror predicates and the controls are unchanged.

The crosswalk and the list left to #944/#946 are in verification/audits/manuscript/dimension-dependency-reconciliation-20261029/README.md. The list covers Complexity's biological inevitability claims, the viable-fraction weighting, the ch10–13 inevitability claims and Complexity's horizontal-rule spelling.

Heads

• 9e267382, then a6d7f417: reviewed pre-integration source.
• bd8fa74d: two-parent merge with main 6e219231.
• dae6883c: bot rebuild.
• 613632e4: SC-42 records.
• becdfe4e, then baf13720: correction round and rebuild.
• 5e3c5ccc, then 7bd7a353: acceptance fixes and rebuild.
• bad093b2, then d07f6e65: nits and book rebuild.

Every earlier head stays in history. No Lean source or proof-grade change. #918 stays on hold until #997 lands.

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Published follow-up candidate 9e2673820ae0c02d6c8ab7e10cf9470753d00ad8 (tree 28625c16425411c9c9c6ff585911cb976e539edc), forward from dbc52ac0. The two focused REVISE findings are corrected and the same inherited scope is propagated to the direct chemistry echoes in chapters 10/11/13 and FULL. Canonical Complexity/book rebuilds pass at 35/557 pages with no dropped glyphs. Coverage, census, voice, source stamps, full mirrors, whitespace and targeted phrase sweep pass; selected rendered pages inspected. The PR body records exact scope and limits. Independent scientific/editorial re-review is requested on this complete candidate, not just the five changed paragraphs. Parent green CI is provenance only; fresh candidate CI remains required. No merge or source-survival closure approved.

[amaybaum]

Independent scoped scientific/editorial re-review — ACCEPT

Exact candidate: 9e2673820ae0c02d6c8ab7e10cf9470753d00ad8 (tree 28625c16425411c9c9c6ff585911cb976e539edc), compared with main ca3a5bb25ec6fdff3d3ccffcacd2d7bac3bb4caf and the prior reviewed checkpoint dbc52ac0e0a55e6bd4753e45bf5820b2fa63f040.

Verdict applies only to #997's bounded dimension/dependency consistency correction. The source qualifications correctly distinguish A4's assumed integer lattice rank from the conditional selection of its value 3 under E5–E7 and the stated continuum premises; they separate universal finite-horizon representation from memory/readback and the additional local spatial/gauge hypotheses. The SM beta-function replacement correctly avoids inferring asymptotic freedom from dimensionless coupling and matches the stated SM one-loop sign pattern.

Both preceding propagation findings are resolved in the actual new source: Complexity §2.8 now makes the chemical conclusions inherit the named premises and each downstream link's hypotheses, rather than treating H-χ′ as the sole qualification; chapter 10's hybridization and fine-tuning conclusions are likewise scoped. Chapters 11/13 correct their direct chemistry echoes. Every added nonblank line in the five changed chapter patches is present in the corresponding FULL Markdown patch.

The changed-file list contains no Lean source or workflow changes. The dimension-corollary mathematical body is unchanged; the full ledger diff remains only the scope-title ID/fingerprint replacement, with no proof-grade change. The incremental follow-up changes no ledger field.

This is not acceptance of all chemistry, origin-of-life, biology or gauge claims. Unchanged broader claims remain subject to their source-survival work under #946. No new blocking finding within this declared correction scope.

Validation boundary: independent source/patch review completed. The author's selected-page visual QA is recorded separately; this reviewer could not access local rendered images and does not certify independent visual inspection or claim a fresh Lean build. Fresh CI on this exact candidate and separate exact-SHA owner approval remain required. This COMMENT records scientific scope ACCEPT, not merge/publication authorization.

[amaybaum]

Final-candidate verification checkpoint: 9e2673820ae0c02d6c8ab7e10cf9470753d00ad8 now has independent scoped scientific/editorial ACCEPT (review 5697640450) and successful fresh ordinary verify run https://github.com/amaybaum/incompleteness/actions/runs/40871075051. The host's Mathlib Build and Release gate step conclusions are both success; numerical jobs and Lean kernel check succeeded, with the expected A42 exclusion job skip. Author selected-page rendered QA is separate from the independent source review. Candidate remains DRAFT and unmerged; separate owner exact-SHA approval and the #946 publication/source-survival holds remain in force.

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Read-only review at 9e2673820ae0c02d6c8ab7e10cf9470753d00ad8 (base ca3a5bb2)

Verdict: ACCEPT WITH CHANGES. No blockers.

Every Issue #996 site is corrected. The PR also moves the chemistry "theorem" wording to conditional, but it does not finish that move: several sites still assert what the edited sites now qualify.

Checks run:

• On this head, all of these pass: architecture_check (264 invariants, 0 violations), mirror_check, coverage_check (133), voice_check, claims_check, staleness_check (13 matched), lean_manuscript_census, audit_census_probe.
• % source-sha256 matches the .md for SM, Explainer, Complexity and FULL.
• The 17 added chapter lines are the 17 added FULL lines.
• PDF page counts are unchanged.
• PR CI is green.

Verified correct:

• The SM:36/172/1255 sites, the §2.3 C-condition split, and the A3–A6 roles.
• SM §4.10 (:605). Asymptotic freedom is now separate from [g] = 0. The signs match §6.2: b₃ = −7 and b₂ = −19/6 grow toward the IR, b₁ = +41/10.
• The SM Corollary fingerprint change. Only the title changed and the body is byte-identical; I recomputed the ID with tools/proof_census.py (4733c1484bbeed56).
• Explainer:806/822, ch02:70/94, ch05:77, and their mirrors.
• Complexity, ch10, ch11 and ch13 contained the same "derives d = 3" claim, so editing them is required propagation (§A.25).

SHOULD-FIX

1. papers/Complexity.md:97, 99, 101, 107
   • Problem: these arrows still read \xrightarrow{\text{derived}} in the same §2.8 display. The d = 3 arrow (:95) and the water arrow (:105) now read "conditional". The generations depend on d = 3, H-link and H-spin′, SU(3) depends on H-link, and the thermal window depends on orbital structure. The display asserts and the prose qualifies (§A.30).
   • Fix: label each arrow "conditional", or name its hypothesis.
2. papers/Complexity.md:13 (abstract)
   • Problem: it still says "The structural chain is entirely parameter-free: d = 3 determines …". The body no longer supports that.
   • Fix: state the A4 / E5–E7 / continuum condition, and drop "entirely parameter-free".
3. papers/Explainer.md:880
   • Problem: "The derived structure supplies the preconditions for organic chemistry with no fitted parameters: d = 3 determines …". The same paragraph says "The partition produces parity violation" without naming H-χ′.
   • Fix: use the same conditional wording, and name H-χ′.
4. book/ch11-origin-of-life.md:38 (+ FULL)
   • Problem: "…the structural derivation produces this combinatorial productivity as a theorem". This echoes the ch10 sentence the PR deleted.
   • Fix: "Given the selected d = 3 branch and carbon's electronic structure, …".
5. book/ch10-chemistry.md:202 (+ FULL)
   • Problem: "…produce observer-supporting structure as a theorem."
   • Fix: remove "as a theorem", or make the sentence conditional.
6. papers/SM.md:30 (Tier 1)
   • Problem: "d = 3 is shown to be the unique self-consistent dimension by three independent filters". The sentence omits A4 and the continuum premise. "Independent" also contradicts SM:178, which calls the third filter "a further consistency check rather than a logically independent constraint".
   • Fix: "within A4's periodic-lattice class, E5–E7 select d = 3 on the continuum branch of §3.1–§3.2".

NIT
7. SM.md:605: "subject to the continuum premise (§3.2)". The premise is stated in §3.1. Cite §3.1–§3.2, as the other new sites do.
8. ch11:8: the selection is made in Chapter 5 §5.3, not Chapter 10.
9. Explainer.md:806: deleting the true sentence "Background independence is achieved through state-dependent bijections…" is not needed for this scope. Acceptable either way.

Pre-existing, out of scope (for a separate check)

• SM.md:34: "Asymptotic freedom requiring $N_c \geq 3$". SU(2) with Standard Model matter is asymptotically free (b₂ = −19/6), so this belongs to the asymptotic-freedom family Issue Editorial consistency: condition d=3 selection and disambiguate theorem dependencies #996 flagged.
• Complexity.md:154 ("eliminates all of these variations") and :332/:340 ("Everything else … is derived").
• ch10:10/16, ch11:130, ch13:8 ("inevitable consequence").
• "Three independent" filters at ch02:70, GR:446 and ch05:63, against SM:178.

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Minimum-necessary manuscript-change audit (read-only; exact head a3d217de20e0d204ab36fbef3532437cade3b989)

Applying the proposed AGENTS.md §A.25 rule in draft #1001. The substantive source edits inspected track the reported defects: conditional dimensional selection (A4/E5–E7), downstream chemistry/biology dependencies, the SU(2) asymptotic-freedom correction, and corresponding maintained mirrors. This is not a replacement for scientific review, build, or the existing stale-artifact gate.

Concrete avoidable diff: papers/Complexity.md changes 11 horizontal separators from --- to ***. These appear editorially equivalent and unrelated to the mathematical corrections. Restore the original separators unless a demonstrated build/render requirement makes these replacements necessary.

Before final-head approval, include/retain a concise finding→manuscript-location crosswalk; preserve valid unrelated prose and derivations; do not use the final artifact regeneration as an opportunity to rewrite additional text. No merge or source acceptance is implied by this audit.

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Exact-head CI result and rebuild gate (2026-10-29; read-only)

The formatting-minimization commit a6d7f417b275800de346662232c3efff3e0146e4 restored eleven original horizontal separators in papers/Complexity.md and left scientific wording unchanged. Ordinary verify run 40908096151 has now completed FAILURE, not remained in progress. I inspected job 123568276614: Mathlib/lake successfully built 3661 jobs; the Release gate reports its sole failing check staleness_check. Expected DEPCHECK FAIL negative-control log entries are not independent proof failures; the Lean kernel and numerical jobs succeeded, with one matrix entry intentionally skipped.

Main advanced through #1001 and then #998 (now 58885fa8ea9677fe5cb94061f36f429f8487824c). Reconcile any overlapping Chapter 2, Explainer, SM and Substratum source claims against that main, retaining #998's full fixed-interface/record-fibre corrections. Then run the actual canonical builds, synchronize FULL and verified generated TeX/PDF, inspect rendered pages, obtain an independent source/minimum-change review and green exact-head CI. Stamp-only repairs do not satisfy this gate. Do not merge/close, rewrite verification evidence or modify Introduction #918 based on this checkpoint.

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Post-#1000 forward source integration — DRAFT at bd8fa74dc924673e14f94812dbf74d431c3a22d4

Merged main now contains #998, #999 and #1000 at 6e219231483bb404c0d055ab9a447278422a597e. This checkpoint is a two-parent forward integration of prior #997 head a6d7f417b275800de346662232c3efff3e0146e4 and that main head. No force push was used.

Conservation method: each of the 48 existing source Markdown patch hunks from #997 had exactly one match against the corresponding main source and was applied verbatim, including Complexity, Explainer, GR, SM, Substratum, affected chapters/book README and FULL. The proof-ledger corollary ID/fingerprint change also matched uniquely. Five modified individual chapters were checked against their integrated FULL text: zero missing lines. Historical audit README was retained with a new forward-integration provenance/staleness note. All other current-main source and generated files were retained, avoiding a reintroduction of older #997 generated PDFs.

Hard hold: affected TeX/PDF files in this source-only tree are STALE. Canonically rebuild sh ./build.sh Complexity SM GR Substratum Explainer and sh ./build.sh --book using the repository toolchain; inspect PDFs and missing-glyph logs; verify source stamps and byte-identical TeX; run the full architecture/mirror/coverage/claims/voice/Lean-census/audit checks, obtain independent exact-final-head scientific/editorial plus minimum-diff review, and require a green ordinary PR CI including the release gate. The just-triggered CI run 40957199990 is not a certificate of publication readiness because the generated artifacts are known stale. Post-#1000 main CI is also still completing.

Scope: no new physical derivation, proof-grade upgrade, correction closure, or merge. #918 remains held.

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Publication and SC-42 integration checkpoint — exact head 613632e49d2344bf556bbc3003a292cf9ed737bd

Canonical regeneration complete. GitHub Actions run 40971794313 passed: sh ./build.sh Complexity SM GR Substratum Explainer, sh ./build.sh --book, 13/13 source stamp matches, no dropped glyphs, 0 missing chapter/FULL lines and meaningful extracted-text density. Pages: Complexity 35, SM 150, GR 88, Substratum 54, Explainer 71, book 557. Artifacts committed as dae6883c (12 TeX/PDF files) and the temporary workflow removed, so no temporary workflow survives in the PR's effective diff.

SC-42 retained evidence reconciled. The post-#1000 exact source had 494 passing predicates: all 471 prior source predicates in the same order plus 23 additional valid chapter-to-FULL mirror checks from #997. The sole prior SC-42 CI failure was byte mismatch with the retained 471-result JSON, not a failed scientific predicate. Commit 613632e4 updates the source result and audit notes; checker logic and eight must-fail controls are unchanged.

Current CI: ordinary verify run 40972330048 triggered for 613632e4; exact-head green CI including release gate is mandatory.

Independent exact-head review requested in this checkpoint (not yet obtained). Verify (1) all #996 dimension/dependency/chemistry conditional-scope findings, (2) survival of #998 record-fibre and gauge limitations, #999 recurrence/ergodicity qualifiers and #1000 Bell/operational boundaries, (3) the 48 source patch hunks as minimum necessary, with no proof-grade upgrade, (4) paper and FULL mirror parity and all source-derived artifacts, including selected rendered-page inspection, (5) byte-identical regeneration of TeX and retained JSON plus intact SC-42 negatives. Separate an actual blocker from nits or issues already assigned to #944/#946/#963.

Hold: #997 stays draft and unmerged until fresh exact-head CI, independent review and rendered-page inspection pass. #918 remains unchanged/on hold.

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Exact-head post-integration verification — scientific/source scope and selected rendered pages

Commit under inspection: 613632e49d2344bf556bbc3003a292cf9ed737bd; main base 6e219231483bb404c0d055ab9a447278422a597e.

Verified

• Ordinary CI: run 40972330048 SUCCESS on the exact SHA: 25 successful jobs, one expected matrix-placeholder skip. Mathlib bridge, Release gate, Lean kernel, core B/SC-42 and A41 independent all succeeded.
• Regeneration: build run 40971794313 SUCCESS; five papers and consolidated book built with the canonical build.sh, zero missing glyphs, 13/13 source stamps, no missing book/FULL chapter lines. Page counts: Complexity 35, SM 150, GR 88, Substratum 54, Explainer 71, book 557.
• Rendered-page visual checks: fresh independent rendering of the committed PDFs, run 40987040324, inspected: Complexity p.6 (§2.8 dependency chains), SM p.23 (§3.2 dimension filters), book pp.69 (Stage 2 conditional reconstruction), 138 (H-link physical-carrier boundary), 255 (conditional orbital/chemistry chain). Typesetting, notation, headings, whitespace and readable text looked normal at these representative sites. This is sampled visual QA, not a claim that every page was inspected. The disposable review branch deleted itself after collecting the images; Clarify conditional dimension selection and theorem-specific premises #997 was not changed.
• Scientific correction-scope audit: Complexity §2.8 now marks all relevant initial arrows conditional; SM §3.2 and chapters 2/5 distinguish A4's assumed integer rank from E5/E6 selection and E7 consistency; SM Tier 3 correctly rejects N_c≥3 as a necessary asymptotic-freedom condition (the stated SU(2) one-loop coefficient is a counterexample). Chapters 10/11/13 and Complexity restrict chemical/biological chains to the necessary continuum, spin, matter and model assumptions. Physical H-link/H-spin'/H-χ' bridges remain explicit. No new theorem or physical-equivalence claim is supported by this merge.
• Scope / evidence preservation: PR effective changed-file set has 28 files including the required 12 generated TeX/PDF artifacts, 12 core manuscript/README sources, audit files and the proof-ledger update. No Lean source or release workflow change, no temporary workflow in the final diff. The original Clarify conditional dimension selection and theorem-specific premises #997 source changes were integrated by matching their patch hunks uniquely against post-Reconcile Bell boundaries and operational-completion assumptions on current main #1000 main, and the five touched chapter texts were mirrored in FULL. SC-42 retains all prior checks plus 23 added chapter mirrors: 494 passing predicates, unchanged negative controls.

Review boundary and decision

No new blocker found in this scoped source and rendered-page inspection. The prior independent scientific/editorial review accepted the underlying #997 source correction at 9e26738, but it predates the final integration. This checkpoint was performed in the same broader work session that authored the forward integration, so it must not be represented as an independent final-head scientific/editorial acceptance.

Required before merge: an actually separate reviewer should independently inspect the exact 613632e49d2344bf556bbc3003a292cf9ed737bd diff against 6e219231, confirm survival of #998 record-fibre and gauge limits, #999 recurrence/ergodicity qualifiers, #1000 Bell/operational constraints, and check scientific/minimum-change soundness. Scope any remaining whole-framework chemistry/biology/gauge concerns to existing #944/#946/#963 rather than silently approving those broader chains. Keep PR DRAFT until that review is recorded. Keep #918 on hold.

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Correction round: head d07f6e65 (writer: Claude Code, on owner handover)

This round covers the owner-bounded findings of the final-head review of 613632e4. Each manuscript edit maps to one finding. The full crosswalk is in verification/audits/manuscript/dimension-dependency-reconciliation-20261029/README.md, section "Correction round (2026-10-30)".

Commits since 613632e4

• becdfe4e: the corrections (sources and records).
• baf13720: rebuild of Complexity, SM, GR, Computation, Explainer and the book.
• 5e3c5ccc: fixes from the final-acceptance review of baf13720.
• 7bd7a353: rebuild of Complexity, Computation, Explainer and the book.
• bad093b2: the reviewer's two optional nits (ch10:190 wording, audit build line).
• d07f6e65: book rebuild.

Finding → change

Finding	Change
Blocker: 15 display-math lines collapsed by bd8fa74d	Complexity:45, :95–109 (odd lines), :329–330, ch05:60, ch10:69, FULL:1387 and :2887 restored to $$…$$, byte-identical to the reviewed pre-integration head a6d7f417. Display-line counts equal main (Complexity 22, ch05 12, ch10 3, FULL 135).
Complexity contradicts §3.4 (:154)	:121, :198 and :204 scoped to the selected branch. §6.4 arrows :323 and :324 read "conditional". The same claim scoped at :27, :200, :212 and :270.
E7 logical status	SM :30 and :178 and GR :446: concordance is redundant for the selection once E5 and E6 hold, but not logically dependent on them, since it independently excludes d ≥ 4 (SM:180).
Propagation	"Forced consequence of a cubic-lattice commitment" is now conditional at Computation:13, ch00:21 and preface:7 (+FULL). Explainer:974 matches SM Tier 1. ch10:190 (+FULL) carries the branch scope. "Derived structure" becomes "selected structure" at Computation :41/:47/:92 and ch12 :22/:162 (+FULL).
Voice	Complexity :332 and :340 reworded. Explainer:806: the bridges are open hypotheses, and most SM parameter values are properties of the specific bijection φ (consistent with :858/:862).
Citations	Complexity :47 and :93 and SM:1257 now cite §3.1–§3.2.
Deletions	Explainer:880 restores Complexity's ~10^56 autocatalytic estimate and the C1–C4 origin-of-life identification, in conditional form. The SM Tier 1 sentence is not restored; the reason is in the crosswalk.
Stale audit notes	Dimension-dependency README updated. The SC-42 README count is 498 = 338 non-mirror + 160 mirror.

Verification

• Builds: canonical build.sh rebuilds with no dropped glyphs. Complexity 35, SM 150, GR 88, Computation 22, Explainer 71 and the book 558 pages. The book's 557 at 613632e4 came from the collapsed displays. staleness_check: OK (13 matched).
• Rendered pages: Complexity pp. 6 and 18 and book p. 258 show the restored displays as display math. The ch10 chain on book p. 258 sits as close to the right margin as it does on main.
• SC-42: 498 predicates pass. The 338 non-mirror predicates are identical to 613632e4's. The --self-test controls and the -O run are unchanged.
• Cheap checks: mirror, architecture, coverage, voice, claims, lean census and audit_census_probe all pass. No secrets, e-mail addresses or local paths.
• Independent final-acceptance review (a separate reviewer from the writer):
  • On baf13720: ACCEPT WITH CHANGES.
  • On 7bd7a353: ACCEPT. Every .tex regenerated byte-identical, stamps matched, and no surviving equivalents.
  • The two optional nits it raised are applied in bad093b2. The SC-42 output is unchanged by them.

Left to #944/#946 (not changed here)

• Complexity §5/§6.4 biological claims: :15 RNA "structural prediction", :327 "inevitable" Darwinian evolution, §5.3–§5.6 inevitability.
• The §3 viable-fraction weighting.
• The chapters 10–13 chemistry/observer inevitability claims (ch10 :10/:16/:134, ch11:130, ch13:8).
• Complexity's horizontal-rule spelling (---; AGENTS.md prefers *** for touched documents). This is an owner decision.

Pending: exact-head PR CI on d07f6e65. #997 stays a draft. No merge is authorized, and #918 stays on hold.

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#997 horizontal-rule safety correction — independent delta review requested

Final candidate at this checkpoint: 9fa501132cad5acb15f65d70f95904abfdaf1e5c (still draft, unmerged; no scientific text changes since d07f6e65).

• Formatting-only source commit 2901421b replaced exactly 11 horizontal-rule lines --- → *** in papers/Complexity.md, pursuant to AGENTS.md. All 22 display-math lines remain unchanged.
• Canonical build run 41002473848 SUCCESS: generated Complexity.tex and Complexity.pdf only, published at 4124b3bf. Source stamps 13/13, mirror 0 missing, no missing glyphs. Complexity PDF: 35 pages, median 2,791 characters/page.
• Rendered pp. 6 and 18 inspected from the new PDF: $$ equations remain display math, labels and headings normal, no clipping visible in those samples. The temporary build workflow deleted itself in the artifact commit and is absent from the effective PR diff.
• a96e12ab and 9fa50113 update only the audit README to record this formatting-safety closure and remove its obsolete open-item wording. No proofs, physics source, book, SC-42 checker, negative controls, or other paper artifact changed in this round.
• The separate scientific/editorial review previously returned ACCEPT on 7bd7a353, followed by optional nit and publication fixes through d07f6e65; CI on that head passed.

Independent reviewer action needed: verify the delta d07f6e65..9fa50113, ensure no scholarly/typographic changes beyond the 11 delimiters and rebuilt Complexity output, and confirm the PDF rendering. Do not treat this writer's inspection as independent acceptance. Fresh ordinary CI: run 41003043632 queued on the exact final head; require a completed green run including release gate before merger. Keep #997 DRAFT and #918 held until both gates are confirmed.

[amaybaum]

Independent delta review d07f6e65..9fa50113: ACCEPT

The reviewer did not author this delta: 2901421b, a6d76004, 4124b3bf, a96e12ab and 9fa50113 were pushed by another session.

Effective diff: 4 files.

• papers/Complexity.md: exactly 11 --- → 11 ***, with no other line changed. ^\$\$ display lines stay at 22, and no --- remains.
• papers/Complexity.tex: only the % source-sha256 line changed. It equals the sha256 of the new .md (edf03e48…).
• papers/Complexity.pdf: rebuilt.
• The dimension-dependency audit README:
  • The horizontal-rule item is removed from the "left to Whole-framework scientific audit of OI: soundness, physical justification and explanatory power #944/Source-correction gate: every substantive audit finding gets a source fix or a recorded no-change reason #946" list, and the rest of the list is unchanged.
  • A "Formatting-safety closure" section is added.
• .github/ is unchanged against d07f6e65, so the temporary build workflow is gone.

Regeneration:

• A local pandoc papers/Complexity.md … --include-in-header=tools/unicode-fix.tex plus the build.sh stamp gives a Complexity.tex byte-identical to the committed file.
• The PDF has 35 pages.
• Rendered pp. 6 (§2.8 chains) and 18 (§6.4 chain) show display math, with layout identical to the accepted d07f6e65 rendering.

Checks at 9fa50113:

• These pass: staleness_check (13 matched), mirror_check, voice_check, coverage_check, architecture_check.
• The SC-42 integration checker replays byte-identically to the retained result JSON.

Intermediate CI failures: the Mathlib bridge failures on 2901421b and a6d76004 are the expected staleness failures before the Complexity rebuild. They are not on the current head.

Pending: exact-head CI run 41003043632 on 9fa50113 was queued at this check. #997 stays a draft and #918 stays on hold.

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Merge record — #997 successfully landed

Final reviewed head: 9fa501132cad5acb15f65d70f95904abfdaf1e5c
Merge commit now on main: f6989a27815c4d715223eebf2859422c1231e3f8.

The last formatting-only source change replaced the 11 Complexity horizontal rules with AGENTS-safe ***; all 22 original display-math lines survived. Only Complexity TeX/PDF were regenerated, via canonical build run 41002473848 (35 pages, normal density, zero missing glyphs, 13/13 source stamps, mirror parity). The disposable workflow is absent from the effective diff. The audit README records that closure.

Exact-head gates passed: separate reviewer ACCEPT for the formatting delta, building on the earlier independent scientific/source ACCEPT at 7bd7a353 and subsequent verified nits. Ordinary CI run 41003043632 completed SUCCESS, with 25 jobs passed and 1 intentionally skipped; release gate and SC-42 core-B included.

GitHub reported the merge successful; main was re-read at exactly f6989a27. The new post-merge main run 41003977645 was queued, not yet green, at this checkpoint. #918 Introduction remains draft/on hold pending separate source-scope reconciliation. Broader whole-framework items stay open under #944/#946; no blanket research-program acceptance is inferred from the #997 merge.

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Merge verification

• Merge commit: f6989a27815c4d715223eebf2859422c1231e3f8, a normal two-parent merge.
  • Parent 1: main 6e219231483bb404c0d055ab9a447278422a597e.
  • Parent 2: the reviewed head 9fa501132cad5acb15f65d70f95904abfdaf1e5c.
• Tree: d5b2f1ab65009fae1baf522a10bdf66be842eea6. It equals git merge-tree --write-tree of the two parents and is identical to 9fa50113's tree, so main carries exactly the reviewed change set.
• Reachability: a6d7f417, bd8fa74d, 613632e4, becdfe4e, d07f6e65, 4124b3bf and 9fa50113 are all reachable from main.
• Main push CI: run 41003977645 on f6989a27 completed success.

Issue #996's corrections are on main. The items recorded as left to #944/#946 remain open there.

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