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 ## Oral bar B: biological bridge
 
+**Status: development gate failed and confirmation is closed.** The complete
+36-run preregistered screen is reported in `ORAL_B.md` and `RESULTS.md`. Local
+learning, residual decorrelation, outcome decoding, and the plasticity lesion
+were positive, but all causal-role sign-inversion indices were negative and
+acute online-control lesions had little effect. Seeds reserved for confirmation
+were not touched.
+
 After C1–C5 pass, test whether the model reproduces the qualitative Harnett signatures:
 
 - dendritic activity contains information absent after conditioning on somatic activity;
@@ -324,6 +331,14 @@ claim is explicitly computational rather than a fit to cortical data.
 
 ## Oral bar A: standard deep architectures
 
+**Status: mechanics and gates frozen; no image/ResNet accuracy observed yet.**
+`ORAL_A.md` fixes a validation-only ResNet-20 development funnel followed, only
+if it passes, by an untouched five-seed ResNet-20/32/56 test panel. The standard
+BatchNorm local Jacobian and BN-coupled batch-objective perturbation estimator
+both match exact numerical derivatives below `1e-6`. The alternative
+translation-shared state-gated vectorizer reduces ResNet-56 feedback parameters
+131x and is included prospectively alongside the full spatial template.
+
 Prepare convolutional local-update primitives and ResNet-20/32/56 protocols early. Queue frozen
 runs opportunistically on authorized idle GPUs. Because BurstCCN already reports CIFAR-10 and
 ImageNet scaling, dataset scale alone is not novel. The oral-level target is a memorable joint