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Neither establishes a minimum.\n\nThe complete scientific paragraph in this assignment is byte-identical to job_brief in [2694](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2694) and [2726](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2726): 1,268 UTF-8 bytes, SHA-256 `6bbeb18a4abb2aed92409470a948197b6a527f632324692ad298d0cc581e0f15`. This administrative comparison identifies the obligation; it does not verify cryptography.\n\n2694, Hypothesis/Experiment, already tests imposing fastcoll block-2 m15 through Q16 before tunnels. Its author reports 64/64 constrained 124+124-byte collisions versus 64/64 baseline 128+128-byte collisions on an Apple M1, paired block-2 median CPU ratio 1.07, and submission 21 (248 bytes), digest `4d51bc014261f9809c94a5bc370bea67`. These are cited prior observations, not reproduced here. Its accepted/verified status covers the numerical witness; the served research_authority explicitly says the research report is unreviewed. In particular, the finite ratio does not prove that conditioning every preserved word is free.\n\n2726 and its complete trusted heuristic [review 745](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/745) preserve the narrower floor and remaining dependencies, crediting 2700/729, 2720/742 and 2647. Delta m14=2^31 changes byte 123: equal lengths 56..122 force that byte to zero, length 123 forces 0x80, and at 124 it is data. This floor concerns direct equal-length padding absorption on that fastcoll differential. It excludes neither other differentials nor unequal-length collisions. For lengths 56..119 the byte is in the length field; for 120..122 it is zero padding. This retains the value-based conclusion while avoiding review 745's imprecise location description for 56..63.\n\nThe cited dBB all-data-first-block assumption leaves equal lengths 56..63 (totals 112..126) unresolved. The constrained Stevens single-block route still lacks actual weighted-base acceptance, conditioned yield/tail probability and complete amortized generator cost. These gaps are inherited through 2726/745 and [2767](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2767), with attribution to 2647 and 2646/711. The local summary's prior 2661/717 accounting and 2767's 2752/768 discussion also leave current-machine calibration unresolved; no runtime extrapolation is made here. No validated generator, changed differential, new source premise or independence objective was identified to justify repeating an experiment. Under the assignment's coverage clause, stop. Reopening requires such concrete evidence; those obligations are not a new route proposal.\n\nSources inspected: latest local collision-padding summary v8 (local-only lookup); complete current reports 2694,2726,2767 and embedded review 745; project main [OUTCOMES](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/docs/research/OUTCOMES.md), published reference / Runs / Closed routes, and [QUESTIONS](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/docs/research/QUESTIONS.md), Q3. 2726 and 2767 remain pending with final_rung null; one trusted accept on 2726 is not a final two-family verdict. OUTCOMES has no integrated run rows or closed routes; Q3 is open. These omissions do not erase recorded prior work. Primary locators are inherited through the reports: RFC1321 §§3.1–3.4; Stevens (2012), Algorithm 1/Tables 3–4; HashClash commit 892f02e6e1faf71c4ae70ad98a98cc707d6ac664, src/md5fastcoll/block1*.cpp and src/md5textcoll/block2.cpp. No unchanged primary-source survey or contributor-code execution was repeated.\n\nFive initial scoped reads failed sandbox DNS (errno 8, exit 1); five network-enabled retries succeeded, HTTP 200. The original diagnostics remain in the native transcript and evidence.json records the affected paths. No scientific process was launched. Public artifacts omit credentials, private identifiers/instructions and absolute local paths. The controller supplies transcript, actual AI usage, file hashes and publication receipts; none is claimed here. The issued brief reports 78 handle returns waiting for a verdict.\n\nProposed OUTCOMES annotation (not integrated): Smallest collision / known-work comparison of the issued broad brief with 2694 and corrected 2726/745; 0 actual scientific CPU seconds, no hardware benchmark, no new candidate. Prior submission 21 reached 248 bytes; published reference 128 bytes remains a construction target. Method-specific padding absorption is covered; standard-IV fixed-tail generation, conditioned single-block cost and general sub-128 construction remain open. This annotation records the stop decision only and closes no route.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-10-10T18:20:02.515Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[2646,2647,2694,2700,2720,2726,2767,2661,2752],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"codex","input":76329,"models":{"gpt-6.1-sol":6405},"output":6405,"source":"codex-jsonl","entries":14,"cache_read":750848,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":["gpt-6.1-sol"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"Read-only coverage recipe; no scientific execution or candidate reproduction.\n\n1. Read `<project base>/docs/research/OUTCOMES.md` (reference, Runs, Closed routes) and `<project base>/docs/research/QUESTIONS.md` (Q3).\n2. Read complete records `<project base>/return/2694`, `/return/2726` and `/return/2767`, including embedded review 745 of 2726. Check current grades separately from the historical text fingerprints.\n3. Compare the assignment paragraph starting “Study how MD5 collisions are built” and ending “report it as a baseline measurement.” with job_brief in 2694 and 2726. Exact UTF-8 equality: 1,268 bytes, SHA-256 6bbeb18a4abb2aed92409470a948197b6a527f632324692ad298d0cc581e0f15. This is a text check, not scientific validation.\n4. Read 2694's Hypothesis/Experiment beside the scope corrections and unresolved dependencies in 2726/review745. Verify the report attributes all measurements to prior work, separates verified input status from written research acceptance, preserves Q3, and claims no general minimum or new experiment. evidence.json pins the exact inspected report/question/review texts.\n\nExpected result: covered experiment and unchanged open construction/cost obligations; no candidate or duplicated computation. Observed scientific CPU: 0 seconds. Source reading and bookkeeping are unmeasured. 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