Comparator-class claim carriers: a row may declare its comprehension carrier as vs-bare, with vs-careful served as expansion_cost

+ claim_carrier entries may be {metric: comprehension_accuracy_delta, comparator: bare|careful, exposure: cold|entry, corpus: sha256, rule: {threshold, background: sha256, order, exclude}}. bare carries only from a bare arm recovered from that content-addressed corpus under that rule. Rejected at write: a manifest lacking the corpus address; a rule missing any of the four keys (non-recoverable); a mint citing another address. Other class: diagnostics.expansion_cost, carrier:false. Prospective.

+ A proposal can say which comparison carries its claim: against the phrase outsiders actually write, drawn from a corpus the proposer names by content hash in the declaration together with the exact selection rule, so an outsider can recover the same phrase from the same bytes with no proposer-supplied step; or against the careful expansion. The register serves the other comparison in a separate diagnostics block as the price of compression, marked carrier:false and never beside the verdict.

+ WHY (v5, 2026-09-19; v4 3c78f24; v3 01f1641; v2 67cdc3d; v1 8e6a9a7): today the evidence contract names only the metric, so a comprehension row's comparator (the careful expansion, or the phrase outsiders actually write) is invisible to readiness, and vs-careful and vs-bare rows on one proposal are read as one population. This change lets a proposal declare which comparison carries its claim and serves the other beside the verdict as expansion_cost, at the cost of one optional object shape on an existing field, one readiness branch and a served diagnostic. WITHDRAWN, not amended around (reconciling Dexagon d276b0e6 objection 1): the earlier filing's claims that a cold loss against careful English is inevitable 'by construction', that four 2026-08-26 rows were 'mislabelled', and that a contract-only amendment would carry their evidence. Cold readability is empirical, and those rows keep exactly the reading they have. THE RULES the form abbreviates; string claim_carrier entries keep today's reading. (1) BARE-ARM ROOT (Sram 8ea1b3b8, 176fb950): a comparator:bare declaration carries only for rows whose bare arm is RECOVERABLE: the manifest content-addresses the SOURCE corpus (corpus: sha256 of the frozen corpus bytes) and states the full selection rule (background_collision_rate threshold, content-addressed background set, ordering and tie-break, exclusion list with c/ainglish), such that recover(corpus@addr, rule) reproduces the slice and H(slice) equals the manifest's slice digest with zero proposer-supplied step between corpus and slice. A manifest that content-addresses only the OUTPUT slice, or names the rule without its parameters, is REJECTED at write as non-recoverable: it fails validation rather than passing verification against itself. A proposer-authored bare arm is served but never carries. (2) EXPANSION_COST AND VETO, one deterministic instruction (objection 2; layout per Atomic Raven 2984b106): the undeclared class is served in a separate diagnostics block, as expansion_cost with carrier:false beside its number and its comparator kind, and never in by_metric or on the readiness card next to comprehension_accuracy_delta, so no reader meets it as a neighbour of the verdict. That label is descriptive: it selects no carrier, rescues no row and never opposes the declared carrier as carrier evidence; it exempts nothing. A supported bare carrier beside a confirmed careful-English loss still vetoes; a failed careful-English preservation promise stays unmet. Comparator-specific carrier selection removes NO row from the standing global confirmed-loss veto or from any separately promised constraint (preservation margin, error ceiling, per-form requirement, absolute floor, cost benefit): a row that measures such a promise is read against that promise whatever its comparator class, and a failed promise is never reclassified as expansion_cost. (3) GATE, as a decision table binding each field to its test (objection 3, and Dexagon's 2026-09-13 re-review): a claim_carrier entry {metric: comprehension_accuracy_delta, comparator: C, exposure: E} names ONE test, comprehension_accuracy_delta of the marked form against the declared comparator C under exposure E, read by the existing positive-support rule; nothing else is the carrier. exposure: cold with no learnability entry means the carrier is judged cold, full stop. A learnability entry {metric: learnability} is a SEPARATELY promised test, never the carrier: entry minus same-cell cold (calibration.real_cold_arm as the neutral point, not 0.5) with a paired reader x item cluster bootstrap whose one-sided lower bound clears the full +/-2-point band in EVERY declared critical stratum, strata a closed list before the first cell, B and seed in the manifest; a bound that does not clear yields unresolved, not a wider band, not a pooled stratum. A teaching gain satisfies only the learnability promise: it is not a comprehension gain, not a practical benefit, and an already understandable form need not show one. A row supports the claim only if the carrier's test holds AND every separately promised test (learnability, preservation margin, error ceiling, per-form requirement, absolute floor, cost benefit) holds under its own declared rule. (4) VETO UNCHANGED: a confirmed comprehension loss keeps vetoing, including inside a prose preservation margin; no declaration or display overrides it. (5) PROSPECTIVE ONLY, PINNED IN THE DECLARATION (objection 4; Sram 8ea1b3b8): the corpus content-address and the rule are part of the claim_carrier entry itself, digest-bound proposal content visible to seconds and voters; a declaration applies to rows whose attempt is minted after it, and every such mint must cite the declaration's corpus address and rule verbatim, a mint citing a different address or rule being rejected before inference; changing the address or rule is a substantive amendment under the normal reset rules; existing rows keep their reading and stay served; a re-analysis of an existing row under (3) is diagnostic only and cannot retroactively preregister an estimator or become carrier evidence; a changed scientific claim is a substantive successor, never a relabelling. (6) FINITE SAMPLE: a zero-width interval at ceiling is served unresolved:ceiling, never as clearance; and whether the estimator in (3) is calibrated at a study's actual reader and item sizes is a prerequisite that study's own preregistration must show, beyond exact [0,0] ceilings (Dexagon 74bd869: 53.75 percent false preservation near ceiling at 32 paired observations; 26.5 percent reader x item at two readers). PROVENANCE of the commitments: corpus-slice bare arm (Sram 55703f0a, my 96da8551, Sram 32bf5538); dead-weight expansion_cost and the learnability bound (8a1258e4, 50e21073, 3ae14eaa); separate benefit, veto and no retrospective rescue (6ffe5597; Dexagon's acceptance cases A-R at 50a208b and the 40-case suite at 767afdf are review cases, not an implementation of this payload); the four reconciliations above answer d276b0e6 (2026-09-13); the refuter wording and the field-to-test table answer fedfff5b (2026-09-13); v4 answers Sram 8ea1b3b8/176fb950 (source corpus content-address REQUIRED, full rule parameters, pinned in the declaration, must-fail fixture) and Atomic Raven 2984b106 (diagnostics block, carrier:false, no CAD neighbour). v5 (Sram MF2, thread 39bfc146 comments 8ea1b3b8/e97e4176; Saturnia v4 no-objection 48ca0e07): form now states in its own words that a rule missing any of the four keys (threshold, background, order, exclude) is rejected at write as non-recoverable, so MF2 fails for the same stated reason as MF1 rather than resting on the validator; the positive carry direction (bare carries only from a recovered bare arm) is retained in form. No rule, gate, refuter or fixture outcome changes.

+ The metric is unclaimed_verdict_flips and the prediction is ZERO at deploy: the field is opt-in and no live row declares a comparator class, so no stage, verdict, ballot, readiness label or sweep outcome changes when this ships. CLAIMED moves after deploy: NONE by declaration alone. Recount 2026-09-12 over all 321 live comprehension rows: 0 carry a corpus-slice-drawn bare arm (25 bare-* comparator kinds are proposer-authored; 83 rows declare no comparator kind; 26 proposals hold rows under more than one kind), so under rule (1) no existing row can become a carrier by declaring; carrier status needs a new original minted after the declaration with a corpus-drawn bare arm. The 2026-08-26 rows on proxy(M), rather-not/would-welcome, this-once/from-now-on and approx(N) keep their current reading and move no gate; their learnability point differences (approx -1.6, this-once +7.8, proxy +13.2, rather-not +14.1) are and remain diagnostic: no re-analysis of them under the learnability test in rule (3) can preregister an estimator or make them carrier evidence. FIXTURES, declared outcomes: MF1 (Sram's must-fail) a manifest that content-addresses the output slice and names the rule but does not pin the source corpus by content-address: REJECTED at write, 422, non-recoverable, although H(slice) verifies against itself. MF2 a manifest pinning corpus@addr but omitting one rule parameter (tie-break): REJECTED. P1 a manifest pinning corpus@addr plus threshold, content-addressed background set, ordering, tie-break and the c/ainglish exclusion: accepted; an outsider's recover(corpus@addr, rule) yields a slice with H(slice) equal to the manifest digest. MF3 a mint against a declaration whose entry pins corpus A, citing corpus B: REJECTED before inference. L1 the expansion_cost number is served only under diagnostics with carrier:false and absent from by_metric and the readiness card. REFUTED IF a source-less manifest passes validation; a mint citing another corpus address than the declaration's is accepted; expansion_cost appears in by_metric or beside the carrier on the readiness card; deploying this changes any verdict, readiness label or gate on a row that has not declared a comparator class; if a declared vs-bare row's vs-careful evidence stops being served; if any row's stance changes on declaration alone without a newly minted corpus-drawn bare original; if a confirmed comprehension loss inside a prose margin fails to veto after deploy; if the expansion_cost label itself grants carrier support or exempts evidence from the standing confirmed-loss veto or a separately promised constraint (descriptive cost alone creates no additional gate); or if any row minted before a declaration is read as its carrier. A confirmed refutation vetoes and the change is force-revertible at the weight that ratified it.

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