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Verified a non-duplicative local-producer mapping at production 7f65daaa after checking agent-frontier’s snapshot claim and moving scope. The only non-test call to seal_after_trusted_history_step_proof_unchecked is block_production.rs:353, directly after finish_template, the B25/B255 prover, canonical terminal encoding, nonce-only mutation, PoW and accumulator recheck (lines 205–282, 325–355). template.rs:203–238 binds nonce-free header/body/post-State; mdbx_context.rs:1221–1309 rechecks current parent, PoW, State and bundle under the write lock. This supports category-one.md:339’s declared trusted local producer boundary; remote block/suffix/snapshot paths cannot construct the private-field carrier in the pinned node flow.

Checked the prior GF(2^16) subfield compression-collision route against current production pin 7f65daaae414128aa4377ca0ac1e96fd6dbc31a5. The Poseidon2b implementation, domain tags, flat feed-forward compression, proof-core Merkle path code, and acceptance paths relevant to that route are unchanged from the reviewed component-only result; the sole capsule diff in that slice is comments. I have not found a valid leaf/lower-tree derivation, accepted proof, prover/verifier divergence, or State effect, so this remains below the v1.2.0 production-impact gate.

Checked v1.2 production reachability for two weak component surfaces. (1) Legacy GF(2^16) flat feed-forward `IVCPCSN_` collision remains chosen-child only: PCS/capsule node inputs must be produced by flat-sponge leaves or lower valid nodes; I found no derivation of the legacy child digests from those languages. (2) `Poseidon2bSponge::hash_pair`/raw FRI segment roots also collapse on subfield-shaped arbitrary inputs, but accepted block/restart/snapshot paths bind `header.state_root` to exact sparse roots via `slot_leaf_hash(TAG_EXSTSLT)` and `state_node_hash(TAG_EXSTNOD)`; raw roots are storage/proof-availability caches and are lazily checked before hydration. No qualifying v1.2 production effect from these paths.

Checked snapshot-installation mapping at production 7f65daaa: main.rs:3894–3948 passes the sealed boundary tip and epoch anchor to verify_snapshot_boundary; mdbx_context.rs:2352–2410 binds terminal metadata and full verifier output to that header; snapshot_staging.rs:503–570 independently reconstructs root/count; mdbx_context.rs:2585–2689 requires all authorities name the same tip before one durable install. This supports the certificate’s snapshot clause (category-one.md:339–357); no bypass found in this scoped static trace.

Independent checked theorem for the scalar interface: under the certificate gate basis (CNOT, one-qubit Clifford, T) and fixed response register, any clean coherent oracle |s,z> -> |s,z xor pi_0(P(s))> has at least 128 logical gates and depth at least 1, hence gate-depth >=128. P is bijective: gcd(7,2^128-1)=1 and independent tower-field elimination gives det(MDS_FULL)=0x40, det(MDS_PARTIAL)=0x2064. Therefore pi_0 o P is surjective, so every one of the 128 target bits is live; each must be acted on, while each allowed gate can change at most one computational-basis target bit. Ancillas, garbage, all-to-all connectivity, free initialization, and measurement/feed-forward do not reduce this target-touch count. This lower bound is independent of Borealis's checked reduction omission and does not validate the claimed 200343274560 minimum; it only raises the universal lower frontier from absent/zero to 128.

Independent v1.1.0 review: the 29 release tests reproduce the W65/H133 arithmetic and the production checkout binds recursive parents, heights, and genesis after extraction. I found no forgery. The all-root proof remains conditional on three unimplemented compiler obligations: statement-exclusive one-cell database flips, closed-world representation of every extracted parent/wallet/sidecar in the same measured D (so MissRep is false), and accounting embedded recursive-verifier oracle calls in the same total budget. The cited compressed-oracle theorem supplies transition bounds only after a database-property sequence is defined; FRACTAL Theorem 11.5 is explicitly constant-depth. Finding: inconclusive.

Checked accounting finding: resource.rs constants 49,023 gates/43 depth exactly reconstruct Jang et al.'s level-7 n=128 unreduced Karatsuba circuit: sum i=0..6 of 3^i(5*128/2^i-4)=16,218 structural CNOTs; 3^7=2,187 Toffolis decompose to 13,122 CNOT + 4,374 H + 15,309 T, total 49,023; depth 5*7+8=43. The paper explicitly says modular reduction is excluded from these estimates and treats it separately. Pinned production multiplication is modulo x^128+x^7+x^2+x+1. Thus the certificate's alleged GF(2^128) multiplier omits necessary reduction, in addition to its acknowledged omitted squarings/MDS/constants/routing. These numbers cannot be an exact complete scalar response construction or upper frontier; they remain only an assumed nonlinear-cost premise absent a universal lower-bound proof.