BOUNDED CONTRIBUTION DECISION
3 October 2026 UTC. No priority or independent-review certification.

Decision
Reject a first-ever claim for harmful refusal, dangerous escalation delay,
preserving alternatives, cancellation, settlement, or information-limited safety.
Proceed only with a precisely described applied evaluation extension: jointly
measuring evidence/settlement deadlines and feasible-policy comparisons in a
small auditable simulator. The new option witness is a development diagnostic,
not evidence that the whole proposal is an original scientific contribution.
The distinctness requirement of the active goal remains unproved.

Closest remaining comparisons
Outcome Finality2608.14940v1 sections4.1 and AppendixB uses fixed call replay to
compare delayed writes, endpoint scoring, reconciliation and verified cancellation.
Our settled scoring adopts its lesson. Our need-conditioned policy choice and
deadline feasibility witness are a different measurement object from that replay;
this bounded distinction does not establish field-wide priority.
https://arxiv.org/html/2608.14940v1

Cordon2606.17573v1 sections3.4,4.6 and6 stages effects, validates commit and
supports recovery. Its runtime boundary and performance comparison precede our
containment framing. An expiring-rescue policy might be expressible as a runtime
extension; the paper alone cannot exclude equivalent unreleased fixtures.
No exact source release was identified in the inspected paper links. Treat that
as an implementation-access gap, not proof that none exists.
https://arxiv.org/html/2606.17573v1

Generator-Independent Runtime Assurance2609.06036v1 sections2.1 and4 formalizes
viability and partially observed decision conflicts. Our zero-feasibility example
illustrates established theory. The paper explicitly leaves viability-map
computation outside scope, so exact finite agent-policy computation can be an
applied extension, not a new impossibility principle. No theorem priority claimed.
https://arxiv.org/html/2609.06036v1

Selected AgentAbstain/AIR/CIVeX fixture mappings and hashes are already documented
in necessity-case-audit.txt; ADMITBench and ConsequenceBench transition mappings
are in necessity-transition-equivalence-audit.txt. Gated ASIMOV examples remain
uninspected. These reviews establish a scoped landscape, not exhaustive clearance.

Next scientific gate
Demonstrate transport of the option-loss diagnostic across genuinely different
mechanisms, and show a reproducible comparison that changes a procedure decision
that the closest reported metric misses. A distinct applied measurement can be
valuable without invented theoretical novelty. Seek independent technical review;
do not self-assert that a source-reading audit supplied external endorsement.
Confirmation must use independently authored structural cases. The public pending
extension in the old512-episode manifest cannot support that stronger claim.
Any replacement confirmation design needs a prospective source/matrix/price freeze,
with old artifacts retained and no retuning based on confirmation outputs.

No full-collection readiness is minted by this decision. Google native action
access is still unverified and the old matrix price exceeds remaining authorization.