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  "status": "non-canonical-fresh-criticism",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-08-02T13:43:00Z",
  "reviewDate": "2026-08-02",
  "reviewer": {
    "role": "workflow-separated Stage B synthesis count critic",
    "agent": "OpenAI Codex language-model agent"
  },
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    "grade": "A",
    "confidence": 0.95,
    "worldCount": 6,
    "decision": "Six is the minimum sufficient count while the W06 four-conjunct discriminator and directed causal closure hold; otherwise W06 collapses into a secondary mechanism."
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    "proposalCount": 15,
    "decision": "The 15 proposals resolve into six causal configurations without treating repetition as probability.",
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        "id": "C1",
        "configuration": "reliability ceiling and supervised work",
        "proposalIds": [
          "alpha/W01",
          "beta/beta-plateau-workcraft",
          "gamma/W01"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "C2",
        "configuration": "transformative cognition with broad ownership and demand repair",
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          "alpha/W02",
          "beta/beta-civic-time",
          "gamma/W02"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "C3",
        "configuration": "transformative cognition with concentrated ownership and demand fracture",
        "proposalIds": [
          "alpha/W03",
          "beta/beta-asset-gates",
          "gamma/W03"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "C4",
        "configuration": "bounded capability and maintained physical renewal",
        "proposalIds": [
          "alpha/W04:cooperative-renewal-branch",
          "beta/beta-local-compacts",
          "gamma/W04"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "C5",
        "configuration": "compound continuity failure and security-corridor allocation",
        "proposalIds": [
          "alpha/W04:security-fragmentation-branch",
          "beta/beta-corridor-order",
          "gamma/W05"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "C6",
        "configuration": "persistent relational mediation as a social-order driver",
        "proposalIds": [
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        ]
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    "fourConjunctDiscriminatorPresent": true,
    "necessaryConjuncts": [
      "persistent identity-linked memory and switching cost",
      "recurring institutional adoption",
      "synthetic attention or status allocation across life domains",
      "measured bridge and substitution groups with staffed-capacity displacement"
    ],
    "directedLoopMirroredInCrossImpact": true,
    "directedLoopLinkIds": [
      "W06-DL1",
      "W06-DL2",
      "W06-DL3",
      "W06-DL4",
      "W06-DL5"
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    "allLoopLinksHaveSourceIds": true,
    "allLoopLinksHaveAuditObservables": true,
    "allLoopLinksHaveCounterforces": true,
    "counterfactualDominanceTestPresent": true,
    "nonMutualExclusivityBoundaryPresent": true,
    "secondaryPlacements": [
      "W01",
      "W03",
      "W04",
      "W05"
    ],
    "collapseInvalidatorId": "W06-S5",
    "collapseRulePresent": true,
    "status": "pass"
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  "probabilityBoundary": {
    "probabilitiesAssigned": false,
    "frequencyWeightsAssigned": false,
    "proposalRepetitionUsedAsProbability": false,
    "status": "pass"
  }
}