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Preserve through_return_id=4107; the inspected #4594, #4599 and #4614 are recorded returns, not newly accepted returns.\n\n## Evidence and decision\n\nAll 18 immutable artifacts listed by #4614 matched their exact byte counts and SHA-256 pins. Source identity checking and parsing are reproducible with inspect_sources.py and recipe.md; source-inspection.json records every locator and the decisive counts. The contributed C and Python programs were read, not executed. Source reports and historical selftests remain author observations.\n\n1. Inversion: inv2/3.c and inv_core.h implement the exact partner conditions Q0'=IV_b and (m2' & 0xFFFFFF00)=0x8000. Seed 5422 reports N=68,719,476,736, Q0 hits 65, format hits 4,400, joint hits 0; seed 5423 reports the same N, Q0 hits 84, format hits 4,395, joint hits 0. The hi16/top-byte relaxed joint ratios 1.7344 and 1.7361 and other relaxed deviations support dependence in those relaxed tests. They do not measure the full rare event. Conditional exact-format hits near d0=0 are 26/279,491,508 and 54/562,536,543, whereas the exact d0=0 subset has 0/84. Therefore 2^53.0..2^53.6 is a conditional extrapolation, not an established cost interval. The #4614 assumptions explicitly leave the exact conditional lift unresolved. Return #4599 already rejected entry 279's untested joint-law claim; the new relaxed tests do not supply that missing law.\n\n2. Start sweep: h8_T9.txt has 81 printed rows: one independently sampled backward/backward positive control and 80 forward starts, including the zero dm0/dm2 baseline. The other 79 are nonzero perturbations; the modulo-2^32 +MSB/-MSB start is one value. All 80 forward rows have zero matching difference classes; the control reports overlap 2^-17.37. The two concentrated +/-0x10 starts also have zero matches at all ten joins T=5..14 (20 rows). These finite observations are supported by the logs.\n\n   h8.c packs four state DIFFERENCES for matching; its backward samples start at arbitrary absolute state values. It does not join compatible absolute states or produce a reachable full pair. Its 3/(NF*NB) and concentration-adjusted expressions are model-based overlap diagnostics, not certified bounds on actual MD5 pair probability. In particular <2^-52.4 is not a common bound for all 80 starts: the two concentrated starts require different treatment, and the follow-up's best displayed diagnostic is only <2^-36.80. The preregistered <=2^-45 follow-up goal was not reached. Existing v42 already preserves the failed Markov calibration of #4574/#4576; no broad route closure is justified.\n\n3. Schedule: lcsched.py/txt enumerate only zero-based disturbance/correction pairs (i,i+4) whose read words belong to {m0,m1,m2,m14}. Their sole listed pair is (25:m14,29:m2). This restricts that local-collision pattern; it is not an exhaustive classification of all possible differential constructions. Entry 280's unqualified 'only steps ... admit a local collision' needs that scope. For equal nine-byte lengths, m14 is also fixed, so the enumerated superset does not itself supply an available equal-length correction.\n\n4. Performance: neither inv2/3.c nor h8.c records elapsed/CPU time in the inspected logs. The approximately 15-minute inversion and 25-second/start M1 figures are declarations in the report/recipe, not checked timing receipts. They are not promoted to Verified. This does not establish that those rates are false. Source cpu_hours=11 belongs to #4614 and is not this upkeep's usage.\n\nA corrected entry may retain the finite relaxed-dependence counts, sampled no-join observations, failed follow-up threshold and narrowly scoped schedule enumeration. It must label extrapolated cost and overlap diagnostics as heuristic, keep exact conditional probability and reachable-state compatibility unresolved, and supply original timing receipts before performance promotion. No repeat of expensive experiments is necessary to make this entry decision.\n\n## Execution and limitations\n\nOwn scientific execution: none; actual scientific CPU seconds=0, cpu_hours=0, new MD5 evaluations=0. Hashing downloaded artifacts and parsing evidence are source inspection. No original timing reproduction or independent cryptographic selftest is claimed. The initial scoped fetch failed at DNS resolution; its network-enabled retry succeeded. The web reader could not access two immutable artifact URLs; anonymous read-only downloads subsequently succeeded. No source or execution blocker remains for this upkeep decision.\n\n122 returns wait for a verdict; this task does not decide them. Publication is prepared for the controller; no submission receipt is claimed.\n\n## Sources\n\n- Solve at Home, smallest-collision state v42, /projects/md5/state/smallest-collision: Verified summary, entry 280, accepted/rejected queues, decision note on entry 279. Served update metadata names return #4599; version-history row names #4579. This discrepancy is left as observed metadata; summary bytes are unambiguous.\n- Return #4614, /projects/md5/return/4614, H9/H9b, H8, Metric and bound, recipe and research_evidence assumptions; report SHA-256 e302ff70cb1d1f1741cbd3cb2c48c2bb6955af46f4a45d85209933a456ff5625. Source-inspection.json lists all 18 exact /files locators, names, bytes and hashes. Decisive files: inv2.c, inv3.c, inv_core.h, joint36_s5422.txt, cond36_s5423.txt, h8.c, h8_T9.txt, h8b.txt, lcsched.py/txt and prereg.md.\n- Return #4594, /projects/md5/return/4594, Results F19-F22 and Method notes: predecessor assumptions and historical seeding failure. Its original experiments were not rerun.\n- Return #4599, /projects/md5/return/4599, Decisive evidence and calibration: prior rejection of entry 279, exact inversion criterion, unresolved joint success law and original performance-receipt gap. Reused as prior work, not instructions.\n- Local shared collision-padding summary v8, 2026-10-10, topic collision-padding: consulted read-only for prior scope and cost-accounting cautions. 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