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  "step": "C342",
  "status": "completed",
  "date": "2026-09-24",
  "title": "Double-E dependency, prior art and selector audit",
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    "source_manifest": "SOURCE_MANIFEST.json",
    "report": "490d_C342_Double_E_Dependency_Prior_Art_and_Selector_Audit_20260924.md",
    "checkpoint": "490d_Mirror_Checkpoint_After_C342_20260924.md",
    "data": "evidence/DATA.json",
    "results": "evidence/RESULTS.json",
    "calculation": "evidence/CALCULATION.py",
    "verifier": "evidence/check.py",
    "next_step_decision": "NEXT_STEP_DECISION.json",
    "replay": "REPLAY.json",
    "control_integrity": "CONTROL_INTEGRITY.json",
    "readme": "README.md"
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  "checkpoint_sha256": "b5a5910670fcd5492325d883dbf59b331fd4e0625a4e464301fbd8e43054c915",
  "data_sha256": "00d79ae6b876051c5001e812552836d03af38a31ee2d701bcdfc2410e2607da2",
  "results_sha256": "a6064973a4c91b3afec02eb36171e23ffc0ef349054308ad54be61fd2d4014d1",
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  "verifier_sha256": "9f175670abb70f7819dd7f6d997ff0bef2e58df8dffd763b433f6c6cd62e332d",
  "next_step_decision_sha256": "335101e324b277bbe5b815bd5a350b6a7d193361e9891ce49a5f42af5be9d7b4",
  "replay_sha256": "32880d90403140c7deec924a5b7f6df1fafdf804dcfd7104065ab32d5e475b9d",
  "control_integrity_sha256": "9810807cb07b02f43f568f68bb82cb41a6eeff6799902254b4932e5c350ac838",
  "readme_sha256": "733200ded9e72d4e03d1045b299fba0047bb515ee89363802144472dfe1c1bca",
  "assertions_passed": 96,
  "source_checks_passed": 23,
  "main_result": "The ladder derives from650,500,600 and192=130+60+2. Its full source criterion is equivalent to C332’s primary950+108/490 criteria in C319:02 and22 at i3/i5 remain. Thus it does not select cumulative a;two17K remains an additional condition. Scalar/C89 prior art and File46 general licensing are retained.",
  "limits": "No independent historical-witness, source-prescription or global-dilation claim. Conditional source realization and its current controls are preserved; no new source anchor or endpoint is adopted.",
  "canonical_or_graph_edits": false,
  "new_independent_agent_review": false,
  "review_provenance": "Root-agent analysis and deterministic replay; no new independent-agent review",
  "next_proposed_step": "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.",
  "next_step_executed": false
}