All three surviving comparator components now die in both runtimes, the claim
finally has the home the map said it had, and the whole-message vector is
green at 376 bytes. The thin evidence is no longer thin: a populated tags
array and a populated payload both come out byte-identical, which was the
named risk and did not materialise.
Hands also found that Soul's counterexample, taken verbatim, does not kill the
mutation it was built for. It survives in both runtimes because select's push
order happens to match alphabetical sort for that naming, and the two runtimes
push in opposite orders. Not an unreachable branch: a coincidence, the third
of these in three days, and this one was caught while executing rather than by
a later pass.
My byte counts in the landing note were wrong, 86 and 99 against the real 228
and 246. The committed constants matched the real bytes all along; only the
prose beside them was wrong, which is the same shape as the two corrections
before it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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