{
  "completed_step": "C343",
  "next_proposed_step": "C344",
  "question": "Audit File_02 §6.3’s explicitly prescribed gap conversion598×300/299=600 against the retained adjacent-Gear MT Noah/Flood endpoints. Test the existing held-endpoint realizations and their effect on the Noah-held2K/E ladder, keeping companion and modal states separate. No new endpoints, Gears, phases or anchors.",
  "reason_selected_after_current_result": "The present batch separates source choice, coherent Gear movement and E interval matching. The explicit598→600 source rule offers a focused next comparison of those mechanisms without another broad endpoint search. It is proposed only; the ten-step authorization ends at C343.",
  "executed": false,
  "authorization_remaining": 0,
  "fixed_scope": "Mirror/529; regular Gears Noah/Shem/Flood only; SP companion local. Fixed source inputs, no canonical/graph changes."
}