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Codex round-18 (paper/codex_review_gpt55_v3_18_3.md) caught a falsified provenance claim I introduced in v3.18.3 plus four cleaner narrative items that survived the prior 17 rounds. Verdict was Minor Revision; this commit closes all 5 actionable items. - Harmonize signature_analysis/28_byte_identity_decomposition.py to use accountants.firm (joined on signatures.assigned_accountant) for Firm A membership, matching the convention in 24_validation_recalibration.py. Regenerated reports/byte_identity_decomp/byte_identity_decomposition.json. Cross-firm convergence now reports Firm A 49,389 / 55,922 = 88.32% and Non-Firm-A 27,595 / 65,514 = 42.12% (percentages unchanged at two decimal places; counts now match Table IX exactly). - Replace the Section IV-H.2 reconciliation note. The previous note speculated that the one-record discrepancy was a snapshot/floating-point artifact, which codex round-18 falsified by direct DB queries: the real cause was that script 28 used signatures.excel_firm while Table IX uses accountants.firm. With script 28 now harmonized, Table IX and the cross-firm artifact agree exactly at 55,922; the new note documents the Firm A grouping convention plus the dHash-non-null filter. - Replace residual "known-majority-positive" wording with "replication-dominated" in Introduction (contributions 4 and 6) and Methodology III-I (anchor-rationale paragraph). - Correct Methodology III-G's auditor-year description: the per-signature best-match cosine that feeds each auditor-year mean is computed against the full same-CPA cross-year pool, not within-year only. The aggregation unit is within-year, but the underlying similarity statistic is not. - Add the 145 / 50 / 180 / 35 Firm A byte-decomposition sentence to Results IV-F.1 with explicit pointer to script 28 and the JSON artifact; this resolves the round-18 finding that several manuscript locations cited IV-F.1 for a decomposition that was not actually reported there. - Rebuild Paper_A_IEEE_Access_Draft_v3.docx. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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