# β closeout — cycle/425

**Issue:** [cnos#425](https://github.com/usurobor/cnos/issues/425) — Capture remote-runner-delegation primitive + first use (v3.82.0 tag retarget via GH Actions).

**Mode:** docs + skill patch + workflow + receipt; γ+α+β-collapsed-on-δ.

## Verdict: APPROVED at R1

Single review round. All 11 findings (B1–B11) dispose as PASS per `beta-review.md`. No binding finding required round-2; no degraded boundary; no override block populated.

## Findings recap

| # | Finding | Severity | Disposition |
|---|---------|----------|-------------|
| B1 | Verbatim preservation of operator seed | binding | PASS |
| B2 | Required H2 section count and order | binding | PASS |
| B3 | Critical content present (AC3 4-phrase grep) | binding | PASS |
| B4 | Doctrine-before-first-use ordering | binding | PASS |
| B5 | Receipt has all 6 fields filled | binding | PASS |
| B6 | Workflow is one-shot self-deleting | binding | PASS |
| B7 | Kernel / cds / cdr / handoff untouched | binding | PASS |
| B8 | Tag-target correctness (fd1d654e, not main HEAD) | binding | PASS |
| B9 | No schemas / runtime / scripts changes | binding | PASS |
| B10 | Only BOX-AND-THE-RUNNER + README in essays | binding | PASS |
| B11 | Citation consistency across the 5 deliverables | binding | PASS |

11 binding-PASS findings. The cross-citation closed loop (essay → skill → workflow → receipt → back to essay) is the load-bearing legibility property; B11 verifies the loop is closed and each artifact points at every other at least once.

## Independence posture

This cycle ran as `γ+α+β-collapsed-on-δ`: β is the same actor as α and γ. Per `COHERENCE-CELL.md §β Independence as Contagion Firebreak`, this collapse compromises the structural-independence guarantee. The receipt is closed-as-degraded at the structural-independence axis.

The justification for the collapse:

- The deliverable bundle is essay + skill section + YAML workflow + receipt + close-out artifacts — all artifacts whose ACs are mechanically checkable (line counts, section presence, grep patterns, field-presence patterns, diff exclusions).
- The substantive content of the essay is the operator's seed; α's role is essay-polish and synthesis-section authoring; β's role is verbatim-discipline + AC-conformance + citation-consistency verification, all of which the mechanical ACs cover and the prose review in `beta-review.md` records.
- The cycle-414 / cycle-424 precedents (DECREASING-INCOHERENCE.md, CELL-OF-CELLS.md) ran with the same collapse and the same justification; cycle-425 inherits that precedent.
- The dispatch brief explicitly authorizes this mode ("Collapse pattern: β-α-collapse-on-δ").

The collapse is named here rather than papered over. A future cycle that operationalizes V as the cell-wall validator may re-run this essay + skill patch + receipt convention through an independent β-actor for structural-independence confirmation; until then, the receipt carries the collapse as a known disposition.

A separate substantive consideration: the *remote-runner discipline this cycle authors* is itself a candidate for δ-side strengthening of β-independence in future remote-runner cycles. The 6-field receipt makes the move legible; whether the receipt should also require independent β-actor review (as a doctrine matter) is left to future ε signal — the current cycle does not prescribe it.

## Reviewed artifacts

- `docs/gamma/essays/BOX-AND-THE-RUNNER.md` (commit `334f1ca6`) — full read of 288-line essay against operator seed + ACs 1–3, 9–10.
- `docs/gamma/essays/README.md` (commit `334f1ca6`) — 2-line edit verified against AC4.
- `src/packages/cnos.cdd/skills/cdd/delta/SKILL.md` (commit `334f1ca6`) — §8 addition verified against AC5 + hard rule 4.
- `.github/workflows/repoint-3.82.0.yml` (commit `334f1ca6`) — full read against AC6 + hard rules 1, 3, 5.
- `.cdd/unreleased/425/remote-runner-receipt-3.82.0.md` (commit `334f1ca6`) — full read against AC7 + hard rule 2.
- `.cdd/unreleased/425/gamma-scaffold.md` (to be authored in γ-425 commit) — surface + contract declaration; reviewed by reference.
- `.cdd/unreleased/425/self-coherence.md` (to be authored in γ-425 commit) — 11-AC verification; reviewed by reference.

## Handoff

R1 APPROVED. γ to file gamma-scaffold, self-coherence, γ closeout, cdd-iteration (substantive: cdd-protocol-gap finding with disposition `patch-landed-in-cycle`), and INDEX.md row, then push branch.

Filed by β@cnos (γ+α+β-collapsed-on-δ) on 2026-05-23.
