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+{
+  "evidence_id": "gen2-cognitive-003-boundary-2026-08-31",
+  "task_id": "GEN2-COGNITIVE-003",
+  "task_revision": 3,
+  "status": "PARTIAL_CORE_VERIFIED / ACTIVATION_REQUIRES_INDEPENDENT_EVALUATION",
+  "owner_amendment": {
+    "browser_authenticated_acceptance": "DEFERRED_BY_OWNER",
+    "ui": "OUT_OF_SCOPE",
+    "v1_retirement": "NOT_AUTHORIZED",
+    "gen3": "NOT_STARTED"
+  },
+  "gateway_runtime": {
+    "revision": "a23c36eb9d0c7c73c643b932c184ec1e0adf57ff",
+    "stable_health": "healthy",
+    "bounded_qwen_smoke": "HTTP 200 in 4.310 seconds",
+    "warm_gateway_trace": {
+      "admission_millis": 13,
+      "upstream_millis": 1011,
+      "end_to_end_millis": 1144
+    }
+  },
+  "candidate_slot_b": {
+    "revision": "cb50b7357b4c37d2add40db6776355b68a074dd0",
+    "components": "creator-web, core-runtime, cognitive-worker, research-runtime healthy",
+    "local_medium_discovery": "AVAILABLE",
+    "bounded_qualification": "HTTP 200 in 1.390 seconds with one-token output budget",
+    "advisory": "HTTP 200 through the candidate cognitive route within the 12-second budget"
+  },
+  "canonical_lifecycle_state": {
+    "provider": "local-medium-primary",
+    "qualification": "DISCOVERED",
+    "activation": "INACTIVE",
+    "health": "AVAILABLE",
+    "interpretation": "Discovery and reachability evidence do not self-activate a cognitive binding."
+  },
+  "boundary": {
+    "required_next_transition": "independent evaluation/canary promotion through the protected Capability/Core owner path",
+    "not_performed": [
+      "direct database update",
+      "manual admission lease reset",
+      "fallback substitution for Local MEDIUM",
+      "automatic activation",
+      "browser or authentication bypass"
+    ],
+    "why_task_cannot_complete": "The active packet permits provider invocation and typed immediate failure mapping, but does not authorize the independent Core/Capability activation decision required to reach VALIDATED/ACTIVE."
+  }
+}