# UTFANSWF v23 — Authoritative New Predictions, 2026-08-19

This directory integrates the three prediction groups that survived the Aug. 19 global audit into the v23 reproducibility harness.

They execute automatically under:

```bash
python -m harness.run_all_gates
```

The prediction suite is a **blocking auxiliary reproduction check**. It does not renumber the historical 18 canonical gates.

## NP-01 — fixed-t0 RGI light-quark nucleon response

Promoted prediction: the response of the frozen v23 isoQCD nucleon-mass surface to controlled changes in the RGI light-quark mass, holding strange RGI mass and t0 fixed. The runner reproduces the AICc model average, leave-one-lattice-spacing response, beta-block jackknife, and the frozen ±5%, ±10%, ±20% response curve.

This is **not** promoted as a physical sigma-term determination.

## NP-02 — exact-Z6 baryon violation

The runner cross-checks the exact-Z6 Row 28 charge structure and the EWSB-safe selection rule. It reproduces:

- DeltaB=1 forbidden;
- DeltaB=2 forbidden;
- DeltaB=3 first allowed;
- lowest local fermionic EFT operator dimension 15;
- coefficient suppression Lambda^-11;
- isolated DeltaB=1 proton width zero under the exact-Z6 branch.

No trinucleon lifetime is claimed because the dimension-15 Wilson coefficient / U(1)_X-breaking scale remains open.

## NP-03 — PSN-v2 split-spectrum gauge running

The runner propagates the frozen Aug. 18 PSN-v2 electroweak boundary through the recovered one-loop split thresholds. It reproduces the electromagnetic running, threshold locations, kink slopes, alpha3 running, and the two-branch weak-angle envelope.

The D/S sfermion assignment cancels exactly from alpha_em and alpha3 at one loop; it does not cancel from the weak-angle branch.

This is downstream propagation of the frozen PSN-v2 chain, not an independent re-derivation of its upstream MZ normalization.

## Explicitly excluded from promotion

The auxiliary runner does not revive the Aug. 19 demoted candidates: physical 45.42/51.85 MeV sigma terms, light-quark curvature, weak strange response, the circular 2.782648 TeV effective SUSY reconstruction, the circular GUT-scale reconstruction, the failed full 7-9-2 CKM prediction, or the conditional external-lattice HVP branch.

`main.tex` and `main.pdf` remain protected and unchanged.
