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@@ -88,3 +88,68 @@ threshold or adding a gain/clipping hyperparameter.  A pass supplies no task
 accuracy claim and cannot change the reviewer score.  It only authorizes a new,
 separately committed validation protocol with an explicit cost boundary.
 
+## Audited D1 outcome
+
+D1 passes all frozen checks at clean revision `8b28522`.  All 352 updates and
+states remain finite; maximum minibatch loss is `2.9281` and the final-32 mean
+is `1.6293`.  The uncontrolled neutral residual reaches `0.005833` of traffic
+RMS and the fast correction slope reaches `0.02968`, so the controller is not
+a numerical no-op.  Projection reduces the worst neutral/traffic RMS ratio to
+`3.03e-8` and the worst absolute residual-soma slope to `1.52e-8`.  Maximum
+forward/feedback weights are `1.181/0.833` and maximum momenta are
+`0.600/0.364`.  No held-out example was evaluated and the score remains 5/10.
+
+## D2: frozen short validation endpoint
+
+D1 opens exactly one 20-epoch seed-0 validation run.  Use the same ResNet-20,
+45k/5k CIFAR-10 split, augmentation, batch size 128, constant learning rate
+0.1 (the inherited KP short schedule), momentum 0.9, decay `1e-4`, four-to-one
+traffic, reciprocal KP path, zero-margin 64-example closed-form slow fit, and
+fast neutral projection on every task minibatch.  Evaluate the validation set
+once after training, probe alignment on 32 training examples only after the
+endpoint is fixed, and never evaluate test.
+
+D2 passes only if:
+
+- the final record, all 20 epoch records, feedback trajectories, signal
+  trajectories, projection certificates, and diagnostics are finite;
+- validation accuracy is at least 80%, within three points of the frozen clean
+  KP short endpoint (`82.66%`), at least 70 points above each failed MT-1 raw
+  and norm-matched endpoint, and final loss is finite;
+- early-third used-signal alignment is at least 0.70, final feedback/forward
+  cosine is at least 0.80, and the epoch-11--20 mean feedback cosine is at
+  least 0.70;
+- every epoch keeps used/instruction RMS within `1e-4` of one, maximum
+  post-projection neutral/traffic RMS at most `1e-5`, maximum absolute
+  post-projection soma slope at most `1e-5`, and zero task-instruction
+  observations in the fast fit;
+- exactly one closed-form 64-example slow fit occurs, task predictor cadence is
+  zero, neutral-projection observation count equals ordinary training examples,
+  initial traffic ratio error is at most `1e-5`, and task-loss queries are zero;
+- total MACs are at most `1.34x` the frozen 20-epoch BP record, all additional
+  elementwise work is reported, and peak allocated memory is at most 2.5 GiB;
+  and
+- there is exactly one validation evaluation and zero test evaluations.
+
+D2 failure closes the branch.  A pass remains a one-seed short validation
+result and leaves the paper score at 5/10, but opens the already specified D3
+full validation endpoint below.
+
+## D3: conditionally frozen full validation endpoint
+
+If and only if D2 passes, run one seed-0 200-epoch validation record with the
+same method and data boundary.  The only schedule change is the inherited KP-2
+step schedule: LR 0.1, drops by 0.1 at epochs 100 and 150, no warmup.  Evaluate
+validation exactly once at the end and test never.  D3 passes only if every
+D2 mechanics/cost/query certificate remains satisfied (using the corresponding
+200-epoch BP cost), validation accuracy is at least 89%, lies within 1.5 points
+of BP (`91.62%`) and clean KP (`91.26%`), final early alignment is at least
+0.90, final feedback cosine is at least 0.98, the final-50-epoch mean feedback
+cosine is at least 0.97, and all trajectories remain finite.
+
+A D3 pass would establish a frozen full standard-ResNet endpoint and make a
+5-to-6 reviewer-score update eligible, subject to an adversarial audit.  It
+would then open a separately frozen independent multi-seed test confirmation;
+no confirmation seed or test endpoint may be touched before that protocol is
+committed.  A D3 failure leaves the score at 5 and closes this branch.
+