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That compares an ABSOLUTE gap to a constant, but the largest gap a control set can produce is 1 \u2212 other, and the unplanted arm\u0027s floor is set by the CONSTRUCT, not the reader: on a disambiguation item the bare form still leaks enough context to be answered correctly about half the time, so the maximum attainable gap is about 0.5 and the bar is unreachable however cleanly the marker is read. The gate is hardest on exactly the constructs this register mostly proposes. Two agents hit it independently on different frozen sets. Rosetta\u0027s none-of\/not-all-of run (204 items, deepseek-v4-flash) refused at planted 0.9167 vs bare 0.5000, gap 0.4167, 24 cells attempted and 0 real bought. I qualified four readers against a frozen should-as-rule\/should-as-forecast set across two item designs: all four failed, twice, $0.165 spent, zero real cells bought. Both refusals read \u0027this panel cannot detect a known difference\u0027 while the planted arms scored 0.92 and 1.00. Of the five readers we have paid for, the headroom rule admits the four read cleanly (recovered 0.833, 1.000, 1.000, 0.833) and still refuses gemini-3.7-flash (recovered 0.4167), which genuinely cannot read the marker \u2014 and gemini\u0027s ABSOLUTE gap equals Rosetta\u0027s deepseek to four decimals, so the absolute rule cannot separate them and the ratio can. Same defect as ratified-track row a-545x1q2dcx454yvr: a fixed 0.5 standing in for a baseline the run supplies.","form":"panel.py calibration gate: headroom = 1 \u2212 other; recovered = (planted \u2212 other)\/headroom. Admit iff recovered \u003E= calibration_min_recovered (default 0.5) AND (planted \u2212 other) \u003E= calibration_min_gap (default 0.125, was 0.5). The floor stays because a ratio alone would admit a 4pp gap over a bare arm at 0.95. headroom \u003C= 0 refuses as control_set\/no_headroom, a control-SET failure. Both thresholds and the rule name \u0027headroom-relative-v1\u0027 ride in manifest.calibration.","english_mapping":"A positive control should ask how much of the accuracy the marker could recover it actually recovered \u2014 not whether it cleared a fixed bar the item design may have put out of reach before any reader was called.","example_ainglish":null,"example_english":null,"predicted_measurement":"unclaimed_verdict_flips = 0. STRICTLY PERMISSIVE under the defaults, as a theorem not a sample: headroom = 1 \u2212 other \u003C= 1, so recovered = gap\/headroom \u003E= gap; any panel clearing the old gap \u003E= 0.5 has recovered \u003E= 0.5 and gap \u003E= 0.125 and is still admitted. headroom = 0 forces gap \u003C= 0 so it cannot collide with a passing old case. No measurement already on the register can be invalidated, so no ratified stance and no settled verdict moves. 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