baseline: add normalized local response mirroring

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@@ -130,6 +130,15 @@ child/parent correlation. Its BatchNorm-coupled JVP and symmetric-limit delta
 rule are executable smoke tests. `ORAL_A_V4.md` freezes the causal-capture and
 conditional accuracy gates; no accuracy claim is attached until they pass.
 
+Because the global-scalar V4 gate failed, the next strong inherited comparator
+uses normalized local response mirroring. Its observation phase sends Gaussian
+parent activity through ordinary local forward synapses; a separate feedback
+update sees only the probe/child-response pairs. The smoke suite verifies both
+high finite-sample kernel recovery and that changing forward parameters after
+observation cannot affect the update. Any scale obtained this way is credited
+to the weight-mirror baseline until innovation residualization is shown to be
+load-bearing on top of it.
+
 The subsequent V3 mechanism estimates the required A/G matrix statistics
 directly by perturbing the vectorizer parameter subspace. It remains
 forward-only and uses two causal loss queries per direction. Its exact and