Independent alternative-Reference audit: PASS

All source/input/policy/result hashes, original candidate/moment axes, full64 rankings, own-core quotas, ordered complete identities and output gates match.
Borda control reproduces the original Reference/TraceRIFT/Sequential policies exactly. Original seeds and stored Trace gain/LCB/pass values match; reviewed full objective/SE/replacement assertions.
Independent original-kernel replay: 27 reference/query combinations, both TraceRIFT and Sequential, exact outputs/proposals/audits; Trace complete receipt SHA exact.
Truth was read by this audit only after both policy locks and all provenance checks. Realized metrics and method/condition/fold/check CSV fields recomputed.
All nine paired contrasts independently bootstrapped using 10000 paired-parent draws, seed1618033, original plan hash. Positive first-minus-second favors second.

Borda: Reference minus TraceRIFT = 0.020484993600; CI [0.018319906569, 0.022746885093].
Borda: Reference minus Sequential = 0.020544392072; CI [0.018373229014, 0.022843728210].
Borda: Sequential minus TraceRIFT = -0.000059398472; CI [-0.000511561785, 0.000401529006].
TargetConsistency: Reference minus TraceRIFT = 0.031264510851; CI [0.028449500781, 0.034140493386].
TargetConsistency: Reference minus Sequential = 0.031018029896; CI [0.028233015343, 0.033840677297].
TargetConsistency: Sequential minus TraceRIFT = 0.000246480955; CI [-0.000340466376, 0.000825435141].
ObservableDiscrepancyRMS: Reference minus TraceRIFT = 0.024253680728; CI [0.022108364821, 0.026427156179].
ObservableDiscrepancyRMS: Reference minus Sequential = 0.024032352342; CI [0.021914477936, 0.026178550612].
ObservableDiscrepancyRMS: Sequential minus TraceRIFT = 0.000221328386; CI [-0.000328723688, 0.000769258178].

Retrospective robustness on the original cohort and candidate pool, not a new observation or simulator distribution.
Each alternate Reference defines its own core and feasible region; compare improvements within Reference and report absolute regret as well.
Observable public discrepancy is distinct from the learned PyCoRE component and public_discrepancy.total arithmetic mean.
Reference and complete-condition True check flags are identity placeholders; no independent check runs on those branches.
Intervals are pointwise with no multiplicity adjustment; no blanket superiority claim over Sequential follows.
All output invariants and statistics were independently checked; complete selector replay was bounded, complemented by the frozen development and R0 archive assertions.
