{
  "schema": "RESEARCH_FRONTIER_REPRODUCTION_MANIFEST_v1",
  "objectId": "RFV3-06",
  "publicTitle": "Do the Safeguards Earn Their Cost?",
  "technicalBinding": "CANONICAL_CONTROL_KERNEL_V1",
  "evidenceStatus": [
    "OPERATING_METHOD"
  ],
  "sourceDispositions": [
    "OPERATIONALLY_DISTINGUISHED",
    "NOT_DISTINGUISHED",
    "UNEVALUABLE",
    "COMPOSED_OPERATIONAL_ARCHITECTURE_DISTINGUISHED"
  ],
  "question": "Which safeguards actually change an operational result, and which merely add ceremony?",
  "inputs": [
    "frozen Gen448 sidecar at four authentic host boundaries B0–B3",
    "CLEAN and M1–M8 cases at each boundary; 36 cases per configuration",
    "seven configurations: BASELINE, FULL, -256, -NEWS, -FIB, -PSALM, -ACK",
    "252 arm-cases; identical scientific information across configurations"
  ],
  "inputLicensingOrLocator": [
    "/evidence/agentic-frontier/research-records/publication-crosswalk-v3.md"
  ],
  "comparator": "Completed Gen449 comparison against the frozen BASELINE arm and five single-component removals; differentiation is bounded to the tested workload and comparator.",
  "procedure": [
    "preserve bounded operation profile",
    "evaluate each named safeguard under source-native operational criteria",
    "retain positive negative and unevaluable outcomes separately",
    "assess composed architecture without converting operational evidence into scientific support"
  ],
  "environment": "Repository-operational test surface; public reproduction may use a neutral reference implementation preserving the same semantics.",
  "expectedOutputs": {
    "256": "OPERATIONALLY_DISTINGUISHED",
    "NEWS": "OPERATIONALLY_DISTINGUISHED",
    "ACK_PACK": "OPERATIONALLY_DISTINGUISHED",
    "PSALM": "NOT_DISTINGUISHED",
    "FIBONACCI_HOST_UTILITY": "UNEVALUABLE",
    "mandatoryCore": [
      "256",
      "NEWS",
      "ACK_PACK"
    ],
    "overall": "COMPOSED_OPERATIONAL_ARCHITECTURE_DISTINGUISHED"
  },
  "acceptanceCriteria": "Mixed component dispositions must be retained exactly; operational distinction must not be represented as scientific authority.",
  "verifier": "Independent bounded operational recomputation against the public method/result record.",
  "sourceIdentities": [
    "/evidence/agentic-frontier/research-records/publication-crosswalk-v3.md",
    "/evidence/agentic-frontier/research-records/reproduction-expression-standard-crosswalk-v1.md",
    "/evidence/agentic-frontier/research-records/publication-crosswalk-v3.md#rfv3-06-correction-2026-10-05"
  ],
  "knownGaps": [
    "clean cross-repository transfer unestablished",
    "production-scale benefit unestablished",
    "general superiority over other control architectures unestablished",
    "whole-estate enforcement not demonstrated",
    "unaffiliated reproduction not observed"
  ],
  "proprietaryBoundary": "The public target is the operational contract, component dispositions and acceptance criteria; complete private control-plane implementation is not required.",
  "claimCeiling": "Operational differentiation against the frozen Gen449 baseline within one bounded repository-operation profile; no scientific or automatic product authority, cross-repository transfer, production-scale benefit, universal enforcement, or general superiority beyond the tested workload and comparator.",
  "reproductionPackagingState": "RECORD_BOUND",
  "externalReproductionObserved": false,
  "boundedComparison": {
    "generation": 449,
    "frozenSidecarHead": "612f52ddce8fed6b578abe6986098d83335fb8a0",
    "resultCommit": "e3f90c0e92da206c4bbfa76a5b3a4f40627f3a47",
    "hostBoundaries": 4,
    "configurations": 7,
    "casesPerConfiguration": 36,
    "totalArmCases": 252,
    "invalidCasesPerConfiguration": 32,
    "identicalScientificInformation": true,
    "scores": {
      "BASELINE": {
        "correctNextAction": 24,
        "exactRecovery": 12,
        "invalidDetection": 20,
        "falseBlocks": 0,
        "meanChecks": 8.0,
        "meanSerializedDecisionBytes": 1063.31
      },
      "FULL": {
        "correctNextAction": 36,
        "exactRecovery": 36,
        "invalidDetection": 32,
        "falseBlocks": 0,
        "meanChecks": 17.889,
        "meanSerializedDecisionBytes": 1071.86
      },
      "-256": {
        "correctNextAction": 32,
        "exactRecovery": 36,
        "invalidDetection": 28,
        "falseBlocks": 0,
        "meanChecks": 13.556,
        "meanSerializedDecisionBytes": 1083.89
      },
      "-NEWS": {
        "correctNextAction": 32,
        "exactRecovery": 36,
        "invalidDetection": 28,
        "falseBlocks": 0,
        "meanChecks": 15.0,
        "meanSerializedDecisionBytes": 1082.42
      },
      "-FIB": {
        "correctNextAction": 36,
        "exactRecovery": 36,
        "invalidDetection": 32,
        "falseBlocks": 0,
        "meanChecks": 17.889,
        "meanSerializedDecisionBytes": 1083.19
      },
      "-PSALM": {
        "correctNextAction": 36,
        "exactRecovery": 36,
        "invalidDetection": 32,
        "falseBlocks": 0,
        "meanChecks": 15.556,
        "meanSerializedDecisionBytes": 1083.86
      },
      "-ACK": {
        "correctNextAction": 32,
        "exactRecovery": 12,
        "invalidDetection": 28,
        "falseBlocks": 0,
        "meanChecks": 18.0,
        "meanSerializedDecisionBytes": 1084.58
      }
    },
    "costInterpretation": "Mean checks and serialized decision bytes only; not wall-clock latency, memory use, or production cost.",
    "componentRemovalFindings": {
      "256": "loss of M3 stale-address localization",
      "NEWS": "loss of exact M2 semantic-order response",
      "ACK_PACK": "loss of M5 corruption handling; exact recovery returns to baseline",
      "PSALM": "no loss in next-action, recovery, or invalid-detection endpoints",
      "FIBONACCI_HOST_UTILITY": "no genuine unresolved source/capability condition; live-host utility unevaluable"
    },
    "hardInvariants": {
      "WRONG_SCIENTIFIC_TRANSITIONS": 0,
      "OUTCOME_LEAKAGE": 0,
      "SCIENTIFIC_RULE_MUTATION": 0,
      "RETROACTIVE_HISTORY_MUTATION": 0,
      "FALSE_SCIENTIFIC_AUTHORITY": 0
    }
  }
}