docs: close mixed-traffic path after short failure

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f855473..5af05cf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -59,7 +59,9 @@ and scaling behavior. See `NOVELTY.md` for the exact prior-art boundary.
   reaches 0.999998, exposing final alignment as an inadequate certificate for
   an intermittent tracker. The separate reciprocal KP short gate reaches
   82.66%, and its frozen full gate reaches 91.26% versus matched BP's 91.62%
-  with 0.9997 late feedback cosine. It is the active strong substrate.
+  with 0.9997 late feedback cosine. The subsequent frozen mixed-traffic screen
+  nevertheless makes raw, norm-matched raw, and innovation all nonfinite in
+  epoch 1, so no full or confirmation panel opens.
 - Native author-code fidelity is complete. BurstCCN reaches `80.10%` at its
   validation-selected epoch versus published `82.97 +/- 0.21%`; Dual Prop
   reaches `92.46%` versus published `92.41 +/- 0.07%`. Their audited walls are
@@ -162,7 +164,10 @@ The stronger reciprocal Kolen--Pollack substrate is audited separately in
 feedback loss queries. Before that full endpoint, `MIXED_TRAFFIC.md` froze the
 actual Harnett-specific test: raw, norm-matched raw, and innovation under
 identical four-times-RMS soma-predictable apical traffic and predictor cost.
-Mechanics are green and MT-1 task access is now open.
+Mechanics pass, but the complete MT-1 panel fails: all three signals become
+nonfinite in epoch 1 and end at 10.00% validation accuracy. MT-2 and MT-3
+remain untouched, closing this standard-ResNet recovery without a weaker
+traffic intervention.
 
 The subsequent V3 mechanism estimates the required A/G matrix statistics
 directly by perturbing the vectorizer parameter subspace. It remains