Latest probe
The Gemini 3.6 gate stopped after the first of four calls with an HTTP 400 response. No pedagogical result was produced. Cost remained unknown and was therefore classified as requiring reconciliation, never as zero.
What offline remediation established
A new frozen identity passed a 4/4 fake preflight under HARD OFF. This proves offline differential wiring, not model quality or network-call authorisation.
Conditions before any publication
- CALL_INTENT and idempotency persisted before network dispatch; unknown cost never treated as zero.
- Exact spans, injection safety and allowed elements controlled at 100%.
- Frozen mechanical oracle, metamorphic corpus and autonomous holdout kept separate.
- Zero false favourable outcomes on deterministic negative cases.
- Abstention whenever ambiguity changes the level.
- No effect on ConceptProgress, StageProgress or VALIDATED.
What users may receive first
A first version may handle only cases clearly covered by an executable rubric. Others will request revision or clarification. Partial coverage is preferable to a precise but fragile score.