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The four served artifact references match the issued set; current source reviews are 1092 and 1221, neither marked for reassessment. No typed scopes are declared or endorsed, so every entry has scope_keys: []. The issued input binding is retained unchanged. The live applicability endpoint is bounded and omits #3140; adding source_return_id=3140 returned the same bounded sources rather than a source-specific record. Its omission is not evidence of ineligibility, absence of prior screening, or a stale assignment. Current source status and its served scope assessments supply the available currentness checks.\n\nThe direct collision relevance is stage calibration for the 138-byte d5 family, with zero full passes, not a shorter collision or a measured complete-work gain. Preserve both reviewers' corrections: step-32 non-rejection in selected strata is not rounds-2-to-4 independence; the nominal interval lacks cluster-aware coverage; s48 is unconditional; the timing association reflects early-abort depth; the ten times sum to 263.985 seconds; actual aggregate source CPU is not established by wall times times threads. The fitted x86 gains are conditional plug-in predictions and do not transfer to M1 or production dbbw. Accepted follow-up #3148 and reviews 1111/1226 preserve the remaining solver-distribution/cost question, rather than establish either throughput equality or a gain. The detailed evidence and assumptions are retained in the three assessment entries.\n\nSource dependencies remain the report's #3138/#3136 real-IHV screening, #3126 census6, #3110 dbbw and #2985 block-1 lineage. They were not independently reread, rerun or reaccepted in this screening; their roles and restrictions are inherited through the source and its current reviews. Local topic summaries are historical context and do not override current served reviews. No route state, document integration or scientific scope acceptance follows from this matrix. Missing typed-scope authority remains unresolved; no automatic follow-up or new experiment is requested.\n\nExecution and limitations: no scientific command, compiler, census, benchmark or proof ran. Scientific CPU is 0 seconds (cpu_hours 0). Only read-only source retrieval, JSON parsing and byte hashing were performed. Two initial source GETs failed with DNS resolution errors; network-enabled retries recovered HTTP 200. No source or execution blocker remains. No scientific artifacts were created, as required by this administrative brief. Publication, receipts and exact AI usage remain controller-owned.\n\nSources: [return 3140](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3140), report/recipe/current reviews and scope authority; [review 1092](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1092), arithmetic and inference corrections; [review 1221](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1221), early-abort mechanism and hardware limits; [return 3148](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3148) with [review 1111](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1111) and [review 1226](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1226), production-solver restrictions; [live applicability index](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-applicability), bounded currentness index; issued target domains and current lane summaries. Local-only historical topic summaries: research/summaries/self-match.json v10, all-zeros.json v8, collision-padding.json v8. Relevant cached scientific/publication guidance was consulted. 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Self-match instead hashes exactly 32 lowercase hex ASCII bytes from the RFC IV and scores equality with the input's own digest prefix. The source supplies no legal ASCII32 family, fixed-point/prefix observation, or self-match hashing benchmark. Its path-legal occurrences are not self-match candidates or successes. A general lesson about conditioning and complete cost is methodological caution, not evidence of a self-match algorithmic benefit.","assumptions_md":"Judge only the source's retained finite d5 counts and descriptive implementation timing. Preserve the target's literal ASCII encoding, all 64 MD5 steps, standard IV and exact padding. No global exclusion of collision-derived ideas is claimed. 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Reviews [1092](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1092) and [1221](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1221) accept the finite observations: top 729/23547635 and bottom 80/2302941 step-32 survivors per legal round-1 occurrence, R=0.891195649266 with nominal interval [0.707486396268,1.122607712967], 809 step-32 survivors and zero full passes. This informs a collision-path stage and its census implementation within the target's arbitrary-byte length domain; it is not a submitted collision or improvement over the 128-byte published fixture. The fitted x86 yield/time ratios 1.1722/1.2557/1.3765/1.4683 for keeping 56/28/11/5 IHVs are conditional model calculations, not measured complete-cost collision speedups. Review 1221 corrects the timing mechanism to round-1 early-abort depth (2.92 versus 1.27 steps/pair in its two-IHV check), rather than work on rare legal survivors. The source's accepted follow-up [3148](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3148), with reviews [1111](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1111) and [1226](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1226), further restricts extrapolation: a near-unity sampled conditional-legality selection gain does not establish dbbw throughput equality or a gain. This is relevance only; the source has no typed scope and cannot enter validated transfer.","assumptions_md":"Keep the exact d5 census source, selected real-IHV strata, occurrence denominators, fixed seeds, padding and hardware/compiler context. Q1 replacement and shared-u clustering prevent treating the nominal interval as validated independent coverage or population equivalence. s48 equals s32 by construction; zero full passes leave round-four/full-collision survival uncalibrated. Recorded census times sum to 263.985 s, not the report's 257 s; source-declared 0.57 CPU-hours lacks an independently supported actual aggregate CPU receipt. Build, setup, block-1 generation, screening and full verification costs are incomplete. Do not transfer the x86 fit or 137-to-100 CPU-hour extrapolation to M1, dbbw, other IHVs, other lengths, or sub-128-byte construction. Follow-up 3148's proposed d5 lsteer12 benchmark is inadmissible and also has an IHV argument-format defect per its reviews; it was not executed here. Missing exact typed-scope authority is an unresolved validation condition, not a request for new experiments or another full review.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true}],"targets":[{"id":"self-match","lane":"self-match","title":"Self match: a 32-character hex string equal to its own MD5","domain_md":"The candidate is exactly 32 lowercase ASCII characters from `0123456789abcdef`, in any order, repeats allowed. 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