{
  "completed_step": "C342",
  "next_proposed_step": "C343",
  "question": "Complete C343 as the synthesis and recovery step: consolidate C334–C342, verify all sealed evidence packets and predecessor links, and publish the final reading index, checkpoint, compact restart kit, continuation archive and integrity record. Do not execute C344.",
  "reason_selected_after_current_result": "The bounded source, sign, pair, factorization, expansion, modal, death, phase and dependency questions have been answered. Consolidation and recovery are now the best use of the last authorized step.",
  "executed": false,
  "authorization_remaining": 1,
  "fixed_scope": "Mirror/529; regular Gears Noah/Shem/Flood only; SP companion local. Fixed source inputs, no canonical/graph changes."
}