# v17e interpretation audit

Frozen status is `v17e_cross_start_distance_flat_retire_length_2_4_kernel`. Matched-prefix replay, integrity, reversibility, representation, traversal, and resource checks are separate from the primary cross-start distance response.

The primary requirement passed `0/6`; the observed scale/baseline ratio range is `0.978973-1.005348`. A failed contraction gate retires scale growth for this move class; it does not prove disconnected components. A pass would still not prove convergence or a canonical measure.

Residual-profile identity passed `6/6`. This is an exact residual-algebra diagnostic, not global bounded-cycle state-graph connectivity. Source spectra and effect metrics remained prohibited.