{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","cell_id":"objective_weighting_governance__accounting_auditing","arm":"CONSTRAINED_HIGH","candidate_id":"objective_weighting_governance__accounting_auditing__CONSTRAINED_HIGH","decision":"PROPOSAL","abstention_reason":null,"proposal":{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","cell_id":"objective_weighting_governance__accounting_auditing","arm":"CONSTRAINED_HIGH","candidate_id":"objective_weighting_governance__accounting_auditing__CONSTRAINED_HIGH","proposal_index":1,"version":0,"title":"Mechanically Weighted Coin-Reconciliation Gate with Instability Quarantine","problem":"A coin-heavy operation can record a batch at its nominal denomination even when the batch contains foreign coins, tokens, slugs, or materially worn genuine coins. A mass-only count can treat unlike objects as equivalent, while overly strict rejection can remove serviceable genuine coins. The audit problem is to obtain physical evidence about batch composition while balancing escape of invalid objects, false segregation of genuine coins, and processing continuity without allowing one favorable attribute to compensate for a non-negotiable dimensional failure.","actors":["Cash custodian or cashier","Internal auditor","Treasury or controllership owner","Physical coins, tokens, and slugs under examination","Instrument custodian"],"observable_state":"A nominally homogeneous denomination batch contains objects whose diameter, thickness, mass, or conductive-drag response differs from reference pieces; some objects are unambiguously outside specification, while others are close enough that classification changes under plausible attribute weightings.","consequence":"Invalid objects can inflate the physically realizable value supporting the cash ledger, whereas excessive rejection can create avoidable shortages, recount work, and custody disputes. Weight-fragile classifications can be mistaken for firm audit evidence.","affected_objective":"Improve the physical reliability of evidence supporting cash existence and valuation while limiting false segregation and preserving non-compensable dimensional safeguards.","intervention":"Build a gravity-fed, non-electronic reconciliation gate. Fixed diameter and thickness rails first impose protected go/no-go limits that no favorable score can override. Objects inside those limits then cross a compound balance beam: gravitational mass force and passive conductive or magnetic drag act through visible, adjustable lever arms. Pinned brass cartridges set the relative mechanical influence of the attributes. Two adjacent gates carry the proposed cartridge and a bounded alternative cartridge; a linkage sends any object receiving inconsistent classifications into a separate instability cup. Objects consistently outside the combined acceptance region enter a discrepancy cup, while consistently accepted objects enter the reconciled cup. Engraved cartridge identifiers, lever positions, and breakable witness seals make the operative physical weighting inspectable. Gravity, geometry, inertia, and electromagnetic material response perform the separation without software, reporting, or human enforcement.","structural_mapping":[{"archetype_element":"Objective Set","domain_realization":"Escape resistance for invalid objects, retention of worn genuine objects, and resistance to jams are explicit instrument objectives; diameter and thickness are separately designated protected attributes."},{"archetype_element":"Objective Weight","domain_realization":"Brass masses and lever-arm positions physically determine how mass response and conductive or magnetic drag combine to move the sorting gate."},{"archetype_element":"Weight-Setting Process","domain_realization":"A candidate tradeoff is embodied in a keyed, removable cartridge whose mass and pin geometry can be directly measured rather than hidden in software."},{"archetype_element":"Stakeholder Review","domain_realization":"The auditor, cash custodian, and controllership owner can inspect reference-token outcomes and the cartridge's visible masses before authorizing live use; this review is a support wrapper, not the source of physical separation."},{"archetype_element":"Legitimacy Rule","domain_realization":"Only a cartridge tested with identified genuine, worn, foreign, and surrogate-invalid reference pieces is eligible for the bounded trial, and the reviewer cannot weaken the fixed dimensional rails through weighting."},{"archetype_element":"Weight Sensitivity Analysis","domain_realization":"A second physical gate with an adjacent plausible cartridge exposes classification changes directly; disagreement is mechanically routed to the instability cup."},{"archetype_element":"Revision Procedure","domain_realization":"The keyed cartridge can be removed and replaced without rebuilding the protected rails, permitting bounded recalibration after reference-piece drift or unacceptable test outcomes."},{"archetype_element":"Proxy Alignment Check","domain_realization":"Each physical response is checked against identified reference pieces so mass or conductive drag is not silently treated as authenticity by itself."},{"archetype_element":"Decision Impact Trace","domain_realization":"Accepted, discrepant, and weight-unstable objects occupy separate physical cups, making the consequence of the two weight settings observable at object level."},{"archetype_element":"Protected Threshold","domain_realization":"Fixed diameter and thickness rails reject hard failures before the weighted balance stage, preventing compensation by mass or conductivity."},{"archetype_element":"Audit Trail","domain_realization":"Engraved cartridge identifiers, fixed pin indices, and destructible witness seals leave a physical trace of the installed weighting configuration; written records are optional support."},{"archetype_element":"Score Interpretation Rule","domain_realization":"The mechanism authorizes only physical segregation into reconciled, discrepancy, or instability cups; it does not itself authorize a ledger adjustment or legal authenticity finding."}],"mechanism_mapping":[{"mechanism_slug":"weighted_sum_objective","role":"For objects passing the hard rails, separate physical responses create torques whose lever-weighted sum determines whether the sorting flap moves.","counterfactual_removal":"Removing the compound balance and its weighted torque combination leaves only hard dimensional screening and eliminates discrimination among dimensionally similar objects."},{"mechanism_slug":"weight_sensitivity_sweep","role":"The two-gate path tests each object under the proposed and adjacent physical weight cartridges.","counterfactual_removal":"Removing the alternative gate preserves primary physical sorting but eliminates direct identification of weight-fragile classifications."},{"mechanism_slug":"ranking_stability_report","role":"Its physical analogue is the instability cup, which accumulates the exact objects whose classifications differ between cartridges without requiring a report.","counterfactual_removal":"Removing the instability linkage collapses ambiguous and stable outcomes together, so robustness of the weighting choice is no longer observable."},{"mechanism_slug":"audit_trail_for_weight_changes","role":"Keyed cartridges, engraved indices, and witness seals expose substitution or repositioning of the mechanical weights.","counterfactual_removal":"The gate still separates objects physically, but an observer can no longer reliably determine which weighting configuration produced the separation."}],"causal_chain":["Mixed objects enter the gravity-fed gate individually.","Diameter and thickness rails physically divert any object violating a protected, non-compensable limit.","For remaining objects, mass and passive electromagnetic material response generate forces on separate lever arms.","The installed cartridge scales those forces mechanically, making the tradeoff weights explicit in mass and geometry.","The proposed and bounded-alternative gates classify each object under two plausible weight settings.","A mechanical linkage routes classification disagreements to the instability cup and consistent failures to the discrepancy cup.","The resulting physical partitions provide item-level evidence for reconciliation while preventing fragile cases from being represented as stable acceptance."],"baseline":"Manual visual inspection followed by counting or a single-property mechanical count, with ambiguous objects discovered only during later reconciliation and no physical indication that classification depends on attribute tradeoffs.","nearest_rivals":["Independent fixed go/no-go gauges for every measured attribute, which avoid compensatory weighting but may segregate borderline genuine objects and cannot express a bounded tradeoff among soft attributes.","A mass-only balance or batch weighing method, which is mechanically simple but cannot distinguish equal-mass substitutes.","Manual side-by-side comparison with reference coins, which can inspect several attributes but does not apply a repeatable physical weighting or automatically isolate weight-sensitive cases.","An electronic multi-attribute validator, which may perform similar classification but would not satisfy this candidate's claim of inspectable, computation-independent weighting."],"remaining_contrastive_claim":"Compared with a single-property counter or one fixed compensatory gate, the dual-cartridge mechanical gate should make the chosen attribute tradeoff physically inspectable and should segregate classifications that are unstable across a predeclared neighboring weight setting, while retaining hard dimensional limits that cannot be traded away. This is a testable contrast, not a novelty or effect-size claim.","authority_safety":{"decision_authority":"The controllership owner may authorize only a bounded evidence trial; the audit lead controls interpretation of resulting evidence, and the cash custodian retains custody authority over the tested batch.","authorized_first_step":"Construct a benchtop gate and run a blinded, non-circulating set of identified reference pieces and inert surrogate tokens through proposed and adjacent cartridges; compare physical cup assignments with the concealed identities after the run.","excluded_actions":["No live ledger adjustment based solely on gate output.","No claim that acceptance proves legal authenticity.","No destructive testing or defacement of circulating currency.","No unsupervised deployment on custodial cash.","No alteration of protected rails after the blinded trial begins.","No disposal of discrepant or unstable objects."],"halt_rollback":"Stop the trial if the mechanism scratches, traps, or deforms reference pieces; if repeated passes of the same piece are inconsistent; or if known genuine references cross a predeclared rejection boundary. Bypass the gate, return every object to its labeled custody container, remove the cartridge, and restore the unchanged manual reconciliation baseline."},"negative_tests":{"strongest_counterevidence":"The candidate is undermined if independent hard tolerances classify the reference set at least as coherently as the weighted stage, or if mass and passive electromagnetic response do not provide separable information for dimensionally similar invalid and genuine objects. It is also undermined if the alternative cartridge produces broad instability rather than isolating a bounded ambiguous region.","problem_falsifier":"Blind composition checks across the intended test batches find no mismatch between nominal denomination and identified physical contents, or all mismatches are already unambiguously caught by the protected diameter and thickness rails; then the weighted-objective problem is absent for that setting.","intervention_falsifier":"In repeated blinded bench passes, cup assignment is not mechanically repeatable, known invalid surrogates and genuine references cannot be separated under any predeclared cartridge pair, or the instability cup fails to capture objects whose classifications change when lever weights are exchanged.","risks":["Damage, jamming, or loss of custody for tested coins.","False acceptance may be mistaken for proof of authenticity.","False segregation may create an apparent cash shortage.","Mechanical wear, contamination, tilt, or temperature may shift force responses.","Operators may substitute cartridges or alter lever positions after calibration.","A weighted combination may conceal a material defect unless protected rails are sufficiently comprehensive.","Reference pieces may not span the physical variation of the live population."]},"next_evidence_step":"Using only labeled reference pieces and inert surrogates outside live accounting records, conduct repeated blinded passes through the protected rails and two cartridges. Record object identity only after physical sorting, check within-object repeatability, compare classifications between cartridges, inspect whether hard failures bypass weighting, and stop after the predeclared reference set. This bounded test evaluates physical separability and weight sensitivity without estimating field prevalence or financial effect.","prior_art_status":"UNSEARCHED","diversity_from_prior_proposals":"Not assessed because runtime isolation prohibits inspecting other proposals or experiment candidates.","revision_record":{"parent_version":null,"progress_targets_addressed":["Construct one causally explicit accounting-and-auditing candidate under the binding substrate constraint.","Make objective weights physically inspectable rather than computational.","Separate protected thresholds from compensatory attributes.","Provide counterfactual substrate independence, serious rivals, safeguards, and falsifiers."],"conceptual_changes":["Initial version; no parent proposal.","Translated objective-weight governance into masses, lever arms, fixed rails, and a dual-cartridge instability test."],"operational_changes":["Initial version specifies a blinded benchtop reference-piece trial and automatic three-way physical segregation."],"evidence_changes":["No external evidence or prior-art search used; all claims remain hypotheses for bounded testing."],"claim_changes":["Claims are limited to a contrastive, testable mechanism and do not assert novelty, prevalence, demand, or effect size."]},"substrate_contract":{"primary_allowed_process":"MEASUREMENT_INSTRUMENTATION","counterfactual_independence":"If all software, algorithms, databases, dashboards, reports, incentives, authorization rules, and procedural enforcement are removed, gravity still feeds objects through fixed geometric rails; mass and passive electromagnetic material response still generate mechanically weighted torques; and the linkage still separates accepted, discrepant, and weight-unstable objects into different cups. Governance determines whether humans rely on the result, but it does not create the essential measurement or segregation effect.","forbidden_channel_audit":"The proposal contains no sensor-to-analytics path, software controller, learned classifier, database lookup, recommender, or reporting-dependent actuation. Human review, custody rules, cartridge approval, and written records are explicitly support wrappers. The operative intervention is the direct physical interaction among object geometry, gravity, inertia, material electromagnetic response, calibrated masses, lever arms, rails, and sorting linkages."}}}