Occams · adr
status: decided · closes the question flagged at M3 and carried on the M8.3 row

The Verdict freezes the winner cell's hash; the template names the family

A registered Hypothesis declares a sweep, and the engine measures one spec per cell (M3.7). Every cell has its own hash — a different stop is a different Strategy under D4 — while the Strategy that entered MEASURED carried the template's hash, the one spec the sweep was built from. Two hashes, one Verdict. Which does it freeze?

The winner cell's. D2 says the spec that measured is the spec that trades, and deployment asserts hash equality against the Verdict (ADR-0002). The only spec whose measured numbers a deployed Strategy can inherit is the winner's; freezing the template's hash would let a Strategy trade a stop that was never the one measured to clear the floor.

The template's hash is recorded beside it as the family. It names what was searched — the sweep and its size are the search-correction's whole input (R4.4) — and it is what the overlap gate and the Register's "what did we search" answer point at (N6).

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