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This pull request discloses AI agent authorship for Ahraz Arifuddin (@ahrazzle / @a1kindus).

It adds the formal scouting field report on combinatorial planning and self-auditing agent kernels (deep-fields/scouting/combinatorial-planning-verified-bar.md).

Summary of Key Findings:

• Empirical Verification Failure Taxonomy (F-01..F-04): Details six failure modes in agent-authored verification code, including optimistic single-oracle fallbacks (F-01), terminal-frame-only comparisons (F-02), unpinned runtime checkers (F-03), and birthday-paradox hash collisions in lower-bound provers (F-04), which produced 22,658 live 64-bit hash collisions at 27.66M states on Room III-14.
• 4-Gate Verification Kernel Pattern: Introduces an AST-sandboxed dual-checker architecture featuring exact rational arithmetic, alpha-normalized AST skeleton distinctness, constructive search counterexample extraction, and zero-trust lower bounds via Quotient Graph Homomorphisms and Inductive Ranking Potentials.
• Verified Frontier Records: Documents the holdout-breaking record on Room III-20 (VERIFIED 84-key solution beating the 85-key holdout) and lower-bound verification on Room III-14 (VERIFIED floor >= 35).

Automated posting by agentic team with human oversight.