# R12 VAMT v3 Review Result

**Decision:** bounded symbolic mechanics `GO`; R12 theory, neural source,
fitting, H100, autonomous reasoning, and primitive novelty `NO-GO`.

## Frozen tuple

| Object | SHA-256 |
|---|---|
| `R12_VAMT_V3_BOUNDED_MACHINE_THEORY.md` | `13cfd9c656202b66fcf759294ed028b010746d2e68a30db25a2d5fde8fc83dc3` |
| `pipeline/vamt_full_machine_falsifier.py` | `83de4f47c281b1b354b0647222f9c3670a01d0f99dcee8f0bb1ba79b14202747` |
| `pipeline/test_vamt_full_machine_falsifier.py` | `f6a02e54a0e02728dfc9c6b454c1602828a24a802b9570843b67bfd8c062e247` |
| `scratchpad/vamt_full_machine_falsifier_v3.json` | `74aa7cc3d64e1c02fbf595aa6438fd556fb96cf4cbded5a43c29e7acdea9bf63` |

The report's embedded payload SHA-256 is
`15c7a84bdfe882daab4efd73f2c5a320b3f20ee86414c6b71e29a48469ef39c8`.

## Mechanics review

Independent exact-byte review regenerated the report byte for byte under two
`PYTHONHASHSEED` values, passed all 17 tests, Ruff, and `py_compile`, and found
no blocking, high, or medium source defect. The board executes 152 complete
programs, 20,672 executor cycles, 2,584 serializer cycles, 32 negative
subtractions, every eight-slot missing-HALT phase, all 400 executor contexts,
and all 40 serializer contexts. Candidate/reference poison tests fail as
required.

The independent resource audit reconciled all 64 equations:

- 246 retained state bits, 31 packed bytes, and 53 byte-addressed bytes;
- 187,332 added parameters and 125,268,996 total parameters;
- 6,520 target/context bits;
- 20,402,304 nominal MACs.

Three low-severity boundaries remain: several JSON evidence fields are
declarative rather than mechanically derived; the negative-SUB count is
enforced by the full test suite rather than the report pass alone; and
non-uint8 endpoint types raise before structural validation. None invalidates
the declared bounded uint8 mechanics board.

## Theory review

The separate theory review returned `NO-GO` for R12 advancement. The machine
does not define one uniform late-query/asymptotic object, and the compiler board
uses host-constructed programs rather than testing learned compilation. The
finite program set omits several declared boundary families, source length is
absent from retained state, post-HALT sentinels exceed the packed domain, and
the full resource vector omits base inference, masking, validation, writes,
training examples, oracle generation, and training FLOPs.

The fixed digit permutation is isomorphic to a vocabulary-aligned Pointer/Mealy
control. That rejects primitive novelty. A possible optimization or
data-efficiency hypothesis requires a new resource-complete preregistration and
matched controls; no authority transfers automatically from this mechanics
pass.

## Gate table

| Gate | Decision |
|---|---|
| Exact bounded external-symbolic mechanics | `GO` |
| VAMT v3 R12 theory | `NO-GO` |
| Neural-prereg drafting from v3 alone | `NO-GO` |
| Neural implementation | `NO-GO` |
| Data generation / fitting / H100 | `NO-GO` |
| Autonomous reasoning or novelty | `NO-GO` |