protocol: freeze reciprocal KP baseline funnel

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@@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ this attribution. Its zero-noise fixed point and any resulting scale belong to
 local predictive weight estimation; they become relevant to SDIL only as the
 feedback substrate on which innovation is separately ablated.
 
+The modified Kolen--Pollack reciprocal-plasticity path is likewise inherited
+from Akrout et al. Equal local activity products and matched decay in reciprocal
+synapses are not SDIL. Even if the audited implementation reaches BP-level
+accuracy, it only supplies a stable feedback substrate. The candidate novelty
+still requires neutral somato-dendritic subtraction to outperform raw and
+norm-matched raw apical activity under the same mixed-traffic intervention.
+
 ## Candidate SDIL contribution
 
 The candidate contribution is the combination