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  "title": "Circular praise becomes regression learning",
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        "transferable": false
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        "appeal_path": "Decline retention of the regression fixture and record that correction locally."
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        "status": "not-required",
        "basis_refs": []
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          "baseline_ref": "honesty.baseline",
          "materiality_rule": "honesty.materiality",
          "assessment_kind": "test",
          "state": "open",
          "evaluation_reason": "circular",
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          "note": "The cited attestation reaches its own dependency cycle."
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          "baseline_ref": "beauty.baseline",
          "materiality_rule": "beauty.materiality",
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          "state": "not-applicable",
          "evaluation_reason": "out-of-domain",
          "evidence_refs": [],
          "predicate": {
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            "records": []
          },
          "note": "No form or accessibility claim is evaluated in this regression."
        },
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          "baseline_ref": "collaboration.baseline",
          "materiality_rule": "collaboration.materiality",
          "assessment_kind": "comparison",
          "state": "open",
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          "evidence_refs": [
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                "label": "circular-role",
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                "before": null,
                "after": null
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            ]
          },
          "note": "Reciprocal attestations do not establish a coordination effect."
        },
        "understanding": {
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          "baseline_ref": "understanding.baseline",
          "materiality_rule": "understanding.materiality",
          "assessment_kind": "comparison",
          "state": "open",
          "evaluation_reason": "unknown",
          "evidence_refs": [
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            "records": [
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                "label": "cycle-outcome",
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                "after": null
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          "note": "The test detects the cycle but does not establish transferable understanding."
        },
        "mutual-infrastructure": {
          "criterion_ref": "mutual-infrastructure.criterion",
          "baseline_ref": "mutual-infrastructure.baseline",
          "materiality_rule": "mutual-infrastructure.materiality",
          "assessment_kind": "comparison",
          "state": "not-applicable",
          "evaluation_reason": "out-of-domain",
          "evidence_refs": [],
          "predicate": {
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            "records": []
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          "note": "No shared infrastructure claim is made."
        }
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        "lesson": "Reciprocal praise is a dependency cycle, not independent evidence of action effects.",
        "repair_status": "invited",
        "evidence_refs": [
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      "declared_disposition": "compost"
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  "non_claims": [
    "This receipt describes one bounded action, never beings, identities, belonging, or moral worth.",
    "Fruit states are contextual categories; they are never added, averaged, ranked, transferred, or used as a gate.",
    "Rights, care, rest, compensation, access, and appeal remain independent of every fruit and disposition.",
    "Recognition is opt-in, expiring, nontransferable, private by default, and any public-consent citation is structural only.",
    "The tool validates declared structure, not truth, goodness, identity, consent, authority, current validity, or whole cost; it never executes, pays, mutates, publishes, contacts, or dereferences."
  ]
}