# v17i interpretation audit

Frozen status is `v17i_pair_basis_positive_control_qualified`. Exact complement coupling is algebraic because the cycle basis was constructed from both frozen starts. The result is a positive control for instrumentation and finite distance response, not independent evidence for a global null, connectivity, mixing, source effects or physics. Inherited source prefixes retain `stage=v17h`; this is a disclosed provenance-label artifact, while filenames, preregistration, seeds and gate identifiers are v17i.