Reveal construction: pricing the aligned same-wave double hit on a solid gray, and chains that terminate on a cover, raises reveal flow and lifetime

Seed-free corpus gate for the reveal-construction leaf terms, read once on the depth-4 non-explored subset of runs/RUN-A51D-corpus/all.states (62,831 rows, 768 games, whole-origin split, base held-out R^2 0.6483): the gating term aligned_double_hit FAILS the preregistered four-part gate. Held-out partial correlation with log1p remaining lifetime beyond the 18 leaf features, occupancy and rise clock is -0.0443 (threshold >= +0.05) and incremental R^2 +0.00047 (>= 0.005); prevalence 19.75% and the uncollected-setup rate 60.47% (56.51% excluding ambiguous-empty outcomes; 6,969 setups) pass. chain_to_crack_cracked (partial r -0.0325, R^2 +0.00026, prevalence 28.92%) and chain_to_crack_solid (partial r -0.0385, prevalence 1.77%, uncollected 62.85%) also fail; entombed_high on depth 4 alone reads partial r -0.0595, incremental R^2 +0.00125. Per the protocol the 256-game screen was NOT run and no leased seed was read. All CHECK gates passed at the final term source (0 bit, parity, mirror, determinism, metadata mismatches at d4s5 and d4s7; runs/RUN-20260823T091530Z-cbe65468/gates.log). The value-criterion part of the gate rejects these terms as lifetime predictors; the action-level statistic says the depth-4 (s5, epsilon 0.03) behaviour policy leaves 60% of live same-wave double-hit setups uncollected within two moves.

Paired 256-game SCREEN on fresh seeds 0xa52d0200-0xa52d02ff, fair D4 at seven strata with the memo engine. The preregistered primary arm A300 (aligned_double_hit +300) and the bundle arm B changed the unchanged search's column in 0.69% and 0.70% of decisions at the 32-game rarity check, below the 1% rule, and were stopped as no-measurements (partials: A300 -4,298 on 39 games, B +18,213 on 36 games, both far inside their floors). The dose arm A900 (aligned_double_hit +900), read as primary per the gate text, completed 256 games: mean 389,749 vs 386,545, paired delta +3,204 points (one-sided 95% bootstrap lower bound -26,860; Student-t -27,863; detection floor 30,957; paired sd 301,098), moves 112.55 vs 111.59 (+0.97), W-T-L 99-53-104, Q25 +18,534 (non-regression met), halves +48,762 and -42,354 (opposite signs: fail), coverage 598/28,814 = 2.08% (measured, not rarity). Predeclared mechanism directions were absent: cover reveals per move 1.1520 vs 1.1536, numbered clears per move 2.0541 vs 2.0551, occupancy 23.32 vs 23.22. Gate: FAIL. The term re-ranks about one decision in fifty at +900 and those re-rankings add no reveal flow; the score delta is a non-measurement for effects under about 31,000 points, but the flat flow statistics, whose paired noise is far smaller, reject the mechanism itself. The frozen arm is also the largest fresh-seed fair-D4 seven-stratum cohort on record: 386,545 points, 111.59 moves, 2.0551 clears and 1.1536 reveals per move over 256 never-read games, consistent with the 64-game 398,498 reference.