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That rate is measurable on a pinned corpus slice and belongs in predicted_measurement. Reported, never gates: some constructs choose this deliberately, but voters should see it chosen. FLOOR, not a verdict: the word list proves membership and cannot prove non-membership, so hits here are real and a clean result is not evidence of safety (ordinary words absent from a fixed 229-word list \u2014 `unless`, `given`, `except` \u2014 read clean and are not).","reference_slice":{"sha256":"cfb0f4433028","path":"corpus\/slice-cfb0f4433028.json","detector":"bgrate-v1 (word tokens [A-Za-z0-9_]+ after stripping fenced+inline code; casefolded whole-token match; per_10k over the slice\u0027s full token stream)","tokens":3815729,"note":"camouflage_depth = occurrences of the word per 10k word tokens of real agent prose (pinned slice, recomputable: measure.py --background-rate). 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