Verdict: Minor Revision (corroborates Gemini round-1 and Opus round-1).
Round-1 panel finding closure (codex round-8 audit):
- Codex own round-7: 11 Major + 15 Minor → 21 CLOSED, 4 OPEN/PARTIAL
(mostly splice items); M6 + new-issue-1 (refs [42]-[44]) SUPERSEDED
(Gemini was right, codex round-7 was wrong about absence)
- Gemini round-1: 5 Major + 3 Minor all CLOSED in main body
- Opus round-1: M1-M4 CLOSED in manuscript body; some minors open
Provenance verification (independent of Opus):
- Within-firm any-pair from Table XXV: 98.8032 / 76.6529 / 83.7079 /
77.3723% — Opus arithmetic confirmed
- Same-pair joint: 99.9558 / 97.7011 / 98.1818 / 96.9697% — confirms
the 97.0-99.96% range
- Pooled Big-4 any-pair ICCR 0.1102 verified from Script 43 report
(16,578 / 150,453); Wilson 95% half-width 0.00158 reconciles
- Per-pair conditional ICCR 0.234 verified from Script 40b (70 / 299)
Round-2-induced / round-2-exposed concrete blockers (fixable):
1. Abstract now 261 words (M3 fix pushed over <=250 IEEE Access target);
need 11+ word trim
2. §IV line 177 footnote miscategorizes §IV-M.5 as n=150,442 —
§IV-M.5 / Tables XXIV-XXV actually use 150,453 vector-complete per
Script 44 report; only §IV-D through §IV-J use 150,442
3. §IV-I line 161 stale cross-reference: "§IV-M Table XVI" should be
"§IV-M Tables XXI-XXVI" — XVI is the K=3 firm cross-tab,
pre-existing error exposed by the cascade
Minor copy-edit residue (not blockers): §III line 131 + §IV Table XI
line 104 "replicated vs not-replicated" binary-collapse label;
internal-note staleness at §III lines 438/445, §IV line 3/370.
No empirical reopening: codex confirms Opus M3 does not invalidate
round-7's Major closures of M2 (Big-4 scope) or M11 (cross-scope
reproducibility). Only round-7 minor reopened: m2 abstract margin.
Phase 5 readiness: Partial — empirical core ready, no new statistical
work required; copy-edit / factual-reference splice blockers remain.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
