18 October 2026. Final independent proof-coherence and literature reviews retain a credible specialist publication case. No fatal proof gap found. Full CCSZ manuscript remains unavailable; priority remains provisional, not cleared. Prepare one private manuscript centered on universal eight-point cost9, with bounded-replacement robustness and rank6 exact-cost sharpness as supporting results, and the attribution note accepted by Scott. User explicitly authorized conditional preparation on this finding. No submission, publication, messaging or author outreach authorized. Original source checkpoints remain unchanged.
