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Eva 0863c736d6 docs(nip-fi): defer every impossible interop-exit obligation, not just the result
The R6 fix let FI-CONF-INTEROP-EXIT be recorded as deferred while no
independent second implementation exists, but four unchanged rules still
demanded evidence only the two-party run can produce: the per-oracle
mutant with failing output (Mutation adequacy), the release-gate mutant
clause, the FI-CONF-MUTATION row's universal quantifier, and the
deny-everything global control that must observe every positive oracle
fail. The exact condition permitting deferral made all four obligations
impossible to discharge, so the release gate stayed unsatisfiable with
one implementation -- the same defect class R6 was fixing, one layer
down.

The repair is one centralized rule in Mutation adequacy: while
FI-CONF-INTEROP-EXIT is validly deferred it remains in claim
completeness but is excluded from that section's mutation and
global-control obligations, which attach with the run and must be
discharged before either implementation's interoperable conformance
claim is accepted. The release gate and the FI-CONF-MUTATION row point
at that rule rather than restating it, and FI-CONF-CLAIM-COMPLETE
rejects mutant-evidence omission for any other oracle, so misuse of the
exemption is itself oracle-detected.

The claim tuple's exit-fixture-digest element also carried an
obligation no single implementation could meet: CONF said the canonical
fixture "is published" at docs/nips/fixtures/nip-fi-conf-exit.json, but
the file does not exist yet and every claim must record its digest. The
fixture sentence becomes a publication requirement bound to the first
run, and while the file is unpublished a claim records the reserved
value pending-canonical-fixture, valid only alongside a deferred exit
result; publication changes the tuple element and therefore creates a
new claim.

Verified by exhaustive enumeration of the gate over second-implementation
presence, exit status, exit mutant evidence, control observation,
ordinary-oracle gaps, smuggled deferrals, and fixture-digest state
(128 states): the prior text accepts no one-implementation claim; the
three-site repair without the global-control shape still accepts none;
this text accepts exactly the two intended deferred-claim shapes and
rejects all six modeled abuse states. Positive control: an over-broad
exemption that waives ordinary mutants under deferral is accepted by a
deliberately broken gate and rejected by this one. With a second
implementation present, deferral is invalid and every obligation is
restored. Oracle census unchanged at 58.

Co-authored-by: Eva <011987e296fd5006292d2f930b574be47c7801048d1983c46c425d3c95f0cffd@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Eva <011987e296fd5006292d2f930b574be47c7801048d1983c46c425d3c95f0cffd@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
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