results: pass mixed-traffic mechanics gate

4 files changed, 47 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/MIXED_TRAFFIC.md b/MIXED_TRAFFIC.md
index 521d108..0f14e05 100644
--- a/MIXED_TRAFFIC.md
+++ b/MIXED_TRAFFIC.md
@@ -79,6 +79,13 @@ Before any task endpoint, the float64/CPU smoke suite must establish all of:
 Failure closes this branch. Passing mechanics does not change the reviewer
 score.
 
+MT-0 passes. CPU float64 errors are zero or at most `8.88e-16`; the exact
+predictor error is `1.39e-17`. A task-data-free synthetic ResNet-20 batch-128
+audit of the most expensive matched path on a GTX 1080 remains finite and peaks
+at 0.857 GB allocated / 0.906 GB reserved after reset, with float32 layer-ratio
+error `4.77e-7`. The machine-readable record is
+`results/kp_innovation_mechanics.json`. No CIFAR endpoint was evaluated.
+
 ## MT-1: frozen 20-epoch load-bearing screen
 
 This screen is conditional on a KP-2 pass. Run exactly raw, matched, and
diff --git a/REVIEW_SCORECARD.md b/REVIEW_SCORECARD.md
index 191145d..bf08e18 100644
--- a/REVIEW_SCORECARD.md
+++ b/REVIEW_SCORECARD.md
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ retroactively reopened by success on standard vision benchmarks.
 | 2026-07-22 / residual response-mirror RRM-2 | Two clean short ResNet records; selected RRM reaches 65.08%, 9.86 points below BP, with 0.9991 early alignment and 0.9969x BP MACs | 5 → 5 | Narrowly opens the full baseline run and strengthens the efficient comparator; the remaining accuracy gap despite near-exact direction warns that alignment is not trajectory equivalence |
 | 2026-07-22 / residual response-mirror RRM-3 | The sole frozen full record reaches only 10%, has NaN validation loss, and peaks at `1.5808e16` training loss despite 0.999998 endpoint Q/W cosine | 5 → 5 | Closes intermittent residual mirroring and turns alignment latency into a measured negative; it neither weakens the surviving SDIL mechanism claim nor supplies positive scale evidence |
 | 2026-07-22 / modified KP-1 | One clean constant-LR ResNet record reaches 82.66%, above BP's epoch-20 81.02%, with 0.8856 early alignment, 0.8546 train-period feedback cosine, zero queries, and 1.326x BP MACs | 5 → 5 | Establishes a stable strong substrate under a gate that observes the training trajectory, but reciprocal Kolen--Pollack plasticity is prior art and adds no Harnett-specific evidence |
+| 2026-07-22 / mixed-traffic MT-0 | Exact raw/matched/innovation mechanics pass; synthetic ResNet-20 matched batch peaks at 0.857 GB allocated on GTX 1080 without task data | 5 → 5 | Removes implementation, graph, and memory objections before endpoint access; supplies no evidence yet that innovation is useful |
 
 Future rows are appended only after an audited frozen stage. A score staying flat is informative:
 engineering, theory exposition, or visualization may make the paper more defensible without
diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md
index 0e9133e..68e1b92 100644
--- a/ROADMAP.md
+++ b/ROADMAP.md
@@ -482,7 +482,9 @@ gain calibration, norm/direction control, reciprocal local correlations, and
 parameter independence pass at zero or float64 machine error. A realistic
 20-step neutral warmup leaves `0.1360` of traffic RMS versus the frozen `0.25`
 ceiling. Elementwise traffic/predictor work is reported separately from affine
-MACs, and every control pays the predictor schedule.
+MACs, and every control pays the predictor schedule. The synthetic batch-128
+matched path is finite on a GTX 1080 and peaks at 0.857 GB allocated after
+reset; no task endpoint was used for this hardware check.
 
 MT-1 remains sealed until KP-2 passes. A 20-epoch pass opens one full seed-0
 validation panel but cannot raise the reviewer score; a full pass opens the
diff --git a/results/kp_innovation_mechanics.json b/results/kp_innovation_mechanics.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..159af9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/results/kp_innovation_mechanics.json
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{
+  "protocol": "kp_mixed_traffic_mechanics_v1",
+  "status": "passed",
+  "source_commit": "f8f5583189fcb47bb97416934d40e3d62d360aaa",
+  "tracked_dirty": false,
+  "task_data_used": false,
+  "task_endpoints_touched": false,
+  "synthetic_audit": {
+    "device": "GTX 1080",
+    "physical_gpu": 5,
+    "batch_size": 128,
+    "depth": 20,
+    "width": 16,
+    "normalization": "batchnorm",
+    "traffic_rule": "matched",
+    "traffic_ratio": 4.0,
+    "predictor_warmup_steps": 20,
+    "predictor_eta": 0.1,
+    "finite_step_loss": true,
+    "peak_allocated_bytes": 857338880,
+    "peak_reserved_bytes": 905969664,
+    "max_layer_ratio_error": 4.76837158203125e-07
+  },
+  "cpu_float64_invariants": {
+    "zero_traffic_limit_error": 0.0,
+    "traffic_ratio_error": 8.881784197001252e-16,
+    "exact_predictor_error": 1.3877787807814457e-17,
+    "matched_norm_error": 0.0,
+    "matched_direction_error": 8.881784197001252e-16,
+    "reciprocal_correlation_error": 0.0,
+    "predictor_parameter_independence_error": 0.0
+  },
+  "review_score_before": 5,
+  "review_score_after": 5,
+  "score_change_rule": "mechanics and memory feasibility do not establish task utility"
+}