docs: align project status with depth pass

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/PAPER_PLAN.md b/PAPER_PLAN.md
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--- a/PAPER_PLAN.md
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@@ -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