docs: align project status with depth pass

4 files changed, 92 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/PAPER_PLAN.md b/PAPER_PLAN.md
index ecb3bc8..ec52c74 100644
--- a/PAPER_PLAN.md
+++ b/PAPER_PLAN.md
@@ -200,8 +200,12 @@ should be reassessed from the frozen confirmation only.
 
 The original A3/A4 branch is permanently failed, so this paragraph can now
 apply only to the separately frozen dynamic-depth recovery. Its full 60-cell
-pass is required before a standard-depth abstract/title claim or a 9/10 score;
-D4 alone remains a single-architecture robustness result.
+pass was required before a standard-depth abstract/title claim or a 9/10
+score; D4 alone remained a single-architecture robustness result. The
+calibrated-BCI-gated oral-A-v2 panel subsequently passed all 60 record,
+accuracy, paired depth-gain, alignment, mechanism, query, MAC, and memory
+checks. The manuscript may therefore make the standard-depth claim, while
+attributing clean-task transport substantially to inherited reciprocal KP.
 
 ### If A3 or A4 fails
 
@@ -211,9 +215,12 @@ causal-feedback backbone preserves depth on the controlled task, but standard
 useful scaling remains unresolved. The correct response is a narrower title,
 claim, and score—not another post-hoc ResNet tuning branch.
 
-This is the realized branch: A3 SDIL became nonfinite at epoch 89 and ended at
-chance. A4 remained untouched. The working title therefore stays
-mechanism-focused, and the standard-ResNet result is a disclosed limitation.
+This is the realized outcome for the original A3/A4 branch: A3 SDIL became
+nonfinite at epoch 89 and ended at chance, and A4 remained untouched. It is
+retained as a failed direct-vectorizer path rather than treated as the final
+standard-depth outcome. The independently authorized dynamic-innovation v2
+recovery later passed ResNet-20/32/56, so the remaining limitation is matched
+baseline and architecture breadth rather than positive depth utility itself.
 
 ## Post-A3 accept recovery: innovation on a strong inherited substrate
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b5ec4d4..879de0c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ and scaling behavior. See `NOVELTY.md` for the exact prior-art boundary.
   Every dynamic seed reaches at least `91.51%`, mean early alignment is
   `0.999687`, and all trajectory, projection, leakage, query, hardware, MAC,
   memory, split, and test-isolation checks pass.  This untouched confirmation
-  establishes the strict 7/10 accept bar; it does not establish that added
-  standard-network depth is useful.
+  establishes the strict 7/10 accept bar; D4 alone does not establish that
+  added standard-network depth is useful.
 - Native author-code fidelity is complete. BurstCCN reaches `80.10%` at its
   validation-selected epoch versus published `82.97 +/- 0.21%`; Dual Prop
   reaches `92.46%` versus published `92.41 +/- 0.07%`. Their audited walls are
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ nevertheless fails: residual outcome decoding is only 47.33%, residuals trail
 soma by 4.32 points, and the longitudinal correlation is `-0.013`. Thus the
 recovery sharpens the boundary--causal-role temporal-difference plasticity
 works in this synthetic task, but the broader Harnett-like population
-vectorization signature is not established. The strict score remains 7/10
-and the oral-A depth panel stays sealed.
+vectorization signature is not established. At that stage the strict score
+remained 7/10 and the old oral-A depth panel stayed sealed.
 
 An independent oral-B-v2 then adds an explicit terminal reward/timeout phase,
 a local linear TD critic, and temporal eligibility traces. Its first frozen
@@ -122,6 +122,24 @@ drop in role separation, and 30/30 positive causal signs. This raises the
 formal milestone to 8/10 and permits only a separately frozen oral-A-v2
 protocol; the old depth panel remains closed.
 
+That separately frozen oral-A-v2 protocol is now complete. Its audited 60
+records cross BP, tuned DFA, clean reciprocal KP, and dynamic SDIL over
+ResNet-20/32/56 with five paired seeds. Dynamic SDIL rises
+`91.584% -> 92.254% -> 92.760%`; all five depth-20-to-56 pairs improve, with a
+mean gain of `1.176` points. ResNet-56 SDIL reaches `92.760%` versus `92.632%`
+BP, `92.670%` clean KP, and `30.850%` DFA while retaining `0.999423`
+early-third alignment at `1.331x` the matched BP MAC estimate. This establishes
+the internal 9/10 standard-depth milestone. It does not erase the failed old
+branch or show that residualization, rather than the inherited reciprocal
+backbone, causes clean-task scaling.
+
+The next matched crossover is mechanically registered as nine distinct
+architecture/size points times nine methods: miniCNN/VGGlike/VGG16,
+ResNet-20/32/56, and decoder-Transformer-4/8/12, each with BP, ordinary FA,
+DFA, PEPITA, Forward--Forward, EP, Dual Propagation, clean KP, and SDIL. All 81
+cells are mandatory; adding a width, context, or depth point adds all nine
+methods rather than an SDIL-only extension.
+
 ## Publication-facing artifacts
 
 - `RESULTS.md`: audited positive and negative results;
@@ -140,20 +158,26 @@ protocol; the old depth panel remains closed.
 - `ORAL_A.md`: frozen standard CIFAR ResNet funnel;
 - `ORAL_A_V2.md`: frozen post-failure representable-subspace funnel;
 - `ORAL_A_V3.md`: frozen vectorizer-space causal-calibration funnel;
+- `ORAL_A_RECOVERY_V2.md`: passed calibrated-BCI-gated
+  ResNet-20/32/56 scaling protocol;
+- `CROSS_ARCHITECTURE_CROSSOVER.md`, `RESNET_CROSSOVER.md`, and
+  `TRANSFORMER_CROSSOVER.md`: frozen 81-cell matched-crossover contracts;
 - `REVIEW_SCORECARD.md`: adversarial ICLR-style score trajectory;
 - `paper/MANUSCRIPT.md`: evidence-bound ICLR working draft;
 - `paper/CLAIM_LEDGER.json` and `paper/manuscript_audit.json`: direct bindings
   from manuscript numbers, gate statuses, figures, and claim boundaries to
   their audited source files;
 - `results/figs/`: deterministic PDF/PNG main figures, captions, and a source
-  hash manifest, including the untouched D4 ResNet-20 and oral-B-v2
-  confirmations, plus audited RRM failure and dynamic-stability supplements.
+  hash manifest, including the untouched D4 ResNet-20, oral-B-v2, and
+  60-record standard-depth confirmations, plus audited RRM failure and
+  dynamic-stability supplements.
 
 The current main figures show the local-method Pareto frontier, credit
 assignment versus depth, the load-bearing innovation ablation, and the
-untouched standard-ResNet confirmation. The first three require exactly seeds
-0--4; the ResNet panel requires paired test seeds 10--14. Both strict renderers
-refuse missing, dirty, protocol-mixed, or gate-inconsistent cells.
+untouched standard-ResNet confirmations, including positive ResNet-20-to-56
+scaling. The first three require exactly seeds 0--4; the ResNet panels require
+paired test seeds 10--14. Strict renderers refuse missing, dirty,
+protocol-mixed, source-drifted, or gate-inconsistent cells.
 
 ## Verification
 
@@ -165,9 +189,9 @@ experiments/finalize_accept.sh
 ```
 
 This regenerates all publication-facing figures and manifests, enforces the
-frozen Pareto/scaling and D4 confirmation gates, verifies baseline and protocol
-mechanics, checks the local-rule smoke tests, evaluates the theory identities,
-re-audits completed oral-B outcomes, and rebuilds the audited tables.
+frozen Pareto/scaling, D4, oral-B-v2, and 60-record standard-depth gates,
+verifies baseline and protocol mechanics, checks the local-rule smoke tests,
+evaluates the theory identities, and rebuilds the audited tables.
 
 The convolutional infrastructure can be checked independently:
 
@@ -239,9 +263,9 @@ until a new frozen gate is completed.
 
 `experiments/finalize_accept.sh` additionally requires strict imports of the
 frozen BurstCCN and Dual Propagation author-code runs. Both records now pass;
-the accept-bar mechanical audit is green. The standard ResNet branch stopped
-at its failed A3 validation gate, and the untouched A4 test panel remains
-sealed.
+the accept-bar mechanical audit is green. The original standard-ResNet branch
+stopped at its failed A3 validation gate and its A4 panel remains sealed; the
+independently authorized v2 recovery is the separate passed 60-record panel.
 
 ## Result discipline
 
@@ -251,9 +275,9 @@ accounting, and final finiteness. Development, validation, and untouched
 confirmation results are never pooled. Failed gates close their branch instead
 of triggering seed deletion or post-hoc threshold changes.
 
-The current formal milestone is `8/10` (accept, confidence `4/5`) after the
-untouched D4 and oral-B-v2 confirmations. A conservative external-review
-forecast is `7/10`: positive added-depth utility, original-data biological
+The current formal milestone is `9/10` after the untouched D4, oral-B-v2, and
+standard-depth confirmations. A conservative external-review forecast is
+`8/10`: the full matched nine-method crossover, original-data biological
 validation, and a credit pathway novel beyond inherited perturbation/KP
 mechanisms remain open. Scores change only after an audited frozen stage, not
 after a pilot or presentation improvement.
diff --git a/RESULTS.md b/RESULTS.md
index 16c7293..1fd7b0b 100644
--- a/RESULTS.md
+++ b/RESULTS.md
@@ -1091,6 +1091,28 @@ trajectory, and resource audit directly from these ten records. Its strict
 source-hash manifest refuses an incomplete seed set, failed D4 check, dirty
 provenance, protocol drift, or disagreement between the gate and records.
 
+The separately authorized oral-A-v2 confirmation subsequently reuses those ten
+D4 records verbatim and adds exactly 50 preregistered endpoints. Its complete
+60-record, five-seed panel passes every accuracy, paired depth-gain, alignment,
+mechanism, query, MAC, memory, provenance, and test-isolation check:
+
+| depth | BP test acc. | DFA test acc. | clean KP test acc. | dynamic SDIL test acc. | SDIL early alignment | SDIL/BP MACs |
+|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|
+| 20 | 91.624% | 31.878% | 91.388% | 91.584% | 0.999687 | 1.326x |
+| 32 | 92.302% | 32.684% | 92.332% | 92.254% | 0.999613 | 1.329x |
+| 56 | 92.632% | 30.850% | 92.670% | **92.760%** | 0.999423 | 1.331x |
+
+Dynamic SDIL gains `1.176` accuracy points from ResNet-20 to ResNet-56 on
+average, and all five paired seeds improve. Its ResNet-56 advantage over DFA is
+`61.910` points, while its mean endpoint differs from BP and clean KP by only
+`+0.128` and `+0.090` points. The passed gate establishes positive
+standard-depth scaling and raises the internal milestone from 8 to 9. It does
+not assign the clean-task gain uniquely to residualization: the inherited clean
+KP substrate scales equally well, so SDIL's method-specific evidence remains
+its survival under the four-times-RMS mixed-traffic intervention.
+`results/figs/figure6_standard_depth_scaling.{pdf,png}` is regenerated from all
+60 records and verifies their hashes plus the historical training source.
+
 ## How to run
 `experiments/run.py --mode {bp,fa,dfa,sdil} --dataset {mnist,fmnist,cifar10} --depth D --residual {0,1} --act {tanh,gelu,silu,relu}`
 Batteries: `experiments/run_v2.sh <ds> "<depths>" <res> <act> "<seeds>" <ep> <pfx>`.
@@ -1104,7 +1126,7 @@ C2 direct causal diagnosis: `experiments/c2_nodepert_validation.sh` followed by
 Theory checks: `python experiments/verify_theory.py`.
 Audited aggregate tables: `experiments/analyze_verified.py`. The complete
 accept-bar finalizer is `experiments/finalize_accept.sh`; it rejects
-missing/dirty or gate-inconsistent inputs, regenerates the four main figures,
+missing/dirty or gate-inconsistent inputs, regenerates the six main figures,
 their captions and source-hash manifests, rebuilds
 `results/audited_tables.md`, and runs all smoke and completed-gate audits.
 
@@ -1115,10 +1137,9 @@ their captions and source-hash manifests, rebuilds
   SDIL.
 - Compare simultaneous calibration at fixed loss-evaluation budgets and sweep directions
   (4/8/16/32).
-- A genuinely depth-necessary standard-network comparison remains absent. The
-  frozen ResNet-20/32/56 route is sealed by the failed oral-B prerequisite; any
-  replacement would require a new, independently preregistered mechanism
-  branch rather than reusing the untouched panel.
+- Complete the registered 81-cell crossover: all nine methods at each of
+  miniCNN/VGGlike/VGG16, ResNet-20/32/56, and Transformer-4/8/12. No depth,
+  width, or context extension counts unless all nine method cells are added.
 - Diagnose why residual FA has high directional cosine but lower accuracy: log update-norm ratios,
   parameter-space cosine, and serial feedback latency/cost.
 - Reproduce the d2 EP basin sensitivity in the original Theano revision and/or a strong modern EP
diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md
index 39b78f5..c6b322a 100644
--- a/ROADMAP.md
+++ b/ROADMAP.md
@@ -393,7 +393,8 @@ ended finite at `33.06%`; SDIL became nonfinite at epoch 89 and ended at
 `10.00%`, failing alignment, accuracy, and finiteness gates. The MAC gate alone
 passed. Per the stop rule, the five-seed ResNet-20/32/56 test panel was never
 run. The exact BatchNorm/local-gradient mechanics remain verified, but the
-current training recipe does not establish standard-network scaling.
+original channel-gated training recipe does not establish standard-network
+scaling.
 
 A separate dynamic-innovation recovery is now frozen in
 `ORAL_A_RECOVERY.md` before any new endpoint. It does not reopen failed A3/A4:
@@ -403,6 +404,16 @@ KP/dynamic cells verbatim; exactly 50 new cells are permitted. A full pass is
 the sole 8-to-9 score gate and must show a positive paired depth benefit, not
 merely survival on another depth-flat task.
 
+**Independent oral-A-v2 status: passed.** After the calibrated oral-B-v2
+confirmation separately satisfied the prerequisite, `ORAL_A_RECOVERY_V2.md`
+froze a new protocol without reopening the old panel. All 60
+BP/DFA/clean-KP/dynamic ResNet-20/32/56 records pass. Dynamic innovation rises
+`91.584% -> 92.254% -> 92.760%`; every depth-20-to-56 seed pair improves, with
+a `1.176`-point mean gain, and mean early-third alignment remains
+`0.999687/0.999613/0.999423`. The internal milestone is therefore 9/10. The
+next evidence gap is a full matched strong-baseline and architecture crossover,
+not positive standard-depth utility.
+
 Post-failure diagnosis is recorded separately in
 `results/oral_a_failure_diagnosis.json`: prediction--target cosine remains
 below `8.51e-5` in magnitude, calibration MSE is indistinguishable from target