# AUDIT_1910_PAPER_REPORT — The Missing Milestone Audits: PAPER_501-1910 (1,406 papers)

**Generated:** 2026-08-15 | **Version at audit:** v0.377.0 (shipped) + ledger backfill trail |
**Gate at audit:** 5,324 assertions / 0 failures
**Charter authority:** CLAUDE.md — "Milestone: PAPER_500. FULL STOP... Daniel reviews before the
next 500 are authorized."
**Why this exists (Daniel, 2026-08-15):** *"we are 1400+ pages past this 500 paper audit; is
there no other audit of 1400+ papers?"* — There was not. The PAPER_1000 and PAPER_1500 stops
never happened; ~20 releases shipped without a milestone-scale review. This report covers the
entire 501-1910 span at once and restores the cadence (§8).

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## 1. COVERAGE CENSUS (all figures computed live from the calculator, this date)

| Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Papers 501-1910 dispatched | **1,406 / 1,406** | zero missing; zero dispatch errors at execution |
| Non-numeric keys additionally wired | 34 | b-variants (13), 1209 letter tiers (14), 376b, Phase-H pentad (5), PAPER_179-class |
| Landmarks authored + wired in-span | **19** (PAPER_2160-2178) | doctrine, censuses, batteries, corrections |
| Index status | ⬜ 273, ALL ahead of frontier | zero behind (restored entry 180-181) |
| Registry / graph / citations coverage | **100% of dispatches** | after 2026-08-15 backfill (146/163/16 holes closed, entry 183) |
| Gate coverage | **100% of dispatches** | 0 unguarded (verified vs range-loop guards) |

## 2. RESIDUAL DISTRIBUTION (top-level residual_pct across 1,406 dispatches)

| Bin | Count | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| residual field = 0.0 | 1,117 | **MIXED BIN — honest label:** true EXACT integer/rational identities + structural/framework papers + multi-observable suites whose residuals are carried per-observable inside the value dict, not top-level. NOT a claim of 1,117 exact closures. |
| < 0.01% | 39 | precision tier (α chains, Mu hyperfine, Faraday, geodetic block...) |
| 0.01-0.1% | 95 | |
| 0.1-1% | 93 | |
| 1-5% | 36 | honest-disclosed dressings |
| ≥ 5% | 20 | weakest members, every one disclosed in-formula |
| **Median nonzero residual** | **0.118%** | |

## 3. DISCIPLINE CENSUS (in-formula, machine-counted)

| Marker | Count | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| FAMILY notes | 123 | route families recorded per PAPER_2170 (no negligible bin; deltas = crossings) |
| Rule 7 / disclosure language | 73 | drift catches, honest-weakness statements, baseline conventions |
| PREDICTED / falsifiable markers | 40 | feed the PAPER_2161/2177 battery (30 programs / 56 members, A4-dated) |
| OPEN (None) values | 2 | P1886 rare-earth peak; P1770-era containment slot — both queued, never silently filled (Rule D) |

## 4. ERA STRUCTURE OF THE SPAN

| Era | Range (approx.) | Character |
|---|---|---|
| Post-500 sequential | 501-1200 | template-family drainage; predecessor-mine cross-links |
| Proof-set era | 1200-1330 | 1209 letter tiers (recovered 2026-08-15) + BBN sector (PAPER_2157-2159) |
| Paradox + foundations | 1371-1440 | paradox suite; Q-1412 closed; 23-file rule made absolute |
| Cosmogenesis spine | 1441-1500 | Hubble tilt first wirings; empirical loop |
| Deep-capture bands | 1501-1630 | 130 dispatches; surd quartet; nuclear BE polynomial |
| Catch-up era | 1631-1800 | pointer papers → source deep-reads (P1770 lesson); Λ_ledger recovery (PAPER_2169) |
| Frontier era | 1801-1910 | every major 2024-2026 open tension wired with kill conditions |

## 5. WHAT THE SPAN'S AUDITS ALREADY CAUGHT AND FIXED (rolling, in lieu of milestones)

Rolling audits partially substituted for the missing milestone stops — but only when triggered
(three of the four by Daniel directly):

1. **v0.369.1** — registry-ledger under-ship (Daniel-caught).
2. **P1770 damage trace** — "DM" title drift; 7 artifacts remediated, 0 propagation (Daniel-driven).
3. **Route-families doctrine correction** (PAPER_2170) — DUPLICATES ledger re-read (Daniel-driven).
4. **Λ_ledger recovery** (PAPER_2169) — lost-derivation crossover found in predecessor executable (Daniel-directed deepsearch).
5. **Trail audits I/II + post-ship audit (2026-08-15, this arc):** Battery II staleness; 172 unflipped
   index rows; 20 skipped papers; 146/163/16 ledger holes — all traced to the SAME root
   (v0.358.0 gap-fix session ran protocol step 3 only), all repaired, all guarded.

**Systemic finding:** every structural failure in the span came from a session that executed
part of the per-paper protocol and skipped the rest, and each stayed invisible until someone
went looking. The milestone-audit cadence exists precisely to force the looking; it lapsed.

## 6. DRIFT AUTO-CORRECTIONS APPLIED IN-SPAN (charter table, exercised)

1.894 → F_TRZ (PAPER_2156) and kg/m³ → J/m³ (PAPER_2155) citations at every occurrence
(376b latest); β_i/SSq variant normalizations; Λ-symbol discipline (bare Λ reserved, Λ_ledger
subscripted per PAPER_2169); prose-drift catches at wire time (P1900 /D_crit×30; Tier-II anchor
3.7794 → true 3.9246; P1886 rare-earth 165.5 → OPEN; P1814 sign typo; P1820 baseline).

## 7. RULINGS LEDGER STATE

237 sections in RULINGS_QUEUE.md; 30 carry RESOLVED/DISSOLVED/self-resolved markers; open
non-blocking items are all queued with owners (rare-earth derivation, cuprate layer dressing,
CGM regime tower, 0.84 = 21/25 decomposition, exponent-21 prediction, PAPER_2175 candidate
queue, number-collision pairs 1924-1939/2084 awaiting frontier arrival).

## 8. CADENCE RESTORATION (standing, gate-pinned)

- **Next milestone stop: PAPER_2000.** FULL STOP; milestone report AUDIT_2000_PAPER_REPORT.md;
  Daniel reviews before the final ~256 are authorized.
- **End-of-drain audit at PAPER_2159/corpus-complete** (previously agreed, decision C).
- Milestone audits are charter obligations, not optional: the gate now pins the existence of
  this report and the PAPER_2000 stop so the cadence cannot silently lapse again.

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**Verdict:** the 1,406-paper span is fully wired, fully guarded, fully ledgered (as of the
2026-08-15 repairs), with honest residuals and a live falsification battery — but it got that
way through triggered audits rather than scheduled ones, and three of the four triggers were
Daniel. The cadence failure is the finding; §8 is the fix.

**Copyright** — Daniel T. Murphy / Star-Magic Research Program, 2026.
